Teach For All

EU Legislative Interests

Teach For All Networks' theory of change is aligned with several European Commission initiatives and policies. Please find below a list of activities aimed at influencing EU policy and decision-making: 1) Alignment of our organizational strategy and programming against the following EU policies (not exhaustive) and related priority objectives in areas of relevance to us in the fields of education and youth. In Education and Training: a) December 2022, Council conclusions on supporting well-being in digital education b) November 2022, Council Recommendation on Pathways to School Success; c) September 2020, European Commission’s Communication on achieving the European Education Area by 2025 d) September 2020, European Commission’s Communication on the Digital Education action Plan 2021-2027 - Resetting education and training for the digital agenda e) June 2020 Council conclusions on countering the COVID-19 crisis in education and training f) May 2020 Council conclusions on European teachers and trainers for the future g) May 2018 Council Recommendation on Key Competences for Lifelong Learning; h) April 2019 Council Conclusions 'Towards an ever more sustainable Union by 2030'; i) December 2017 Council Conclusions on school development and excellent teaching; j) November 2017 Commission Communication 'Strengthening European Identity through Education and Culture; k) November 2018 Council Conclusions on the renewed EU Youth Strategy; l) June 2016 Commission Communication on the New Skills Agenda for Europe; etc. Other: a) Alignment with the core objectives of the EU Youth Strategy 2019-2027 b) Other transversal EU strategic policy agenda: interest in the priority objectives of the European Green Deal articulated around climate education and active citizenship – in line with our Climate Education initiative at Teach For All. 2) Participation in EU consultations and submission of position papers on: the 2025 EU Teachers and Trainers Agenda Consultations (contributions from Global organization, Teach For Belgium, and alumni from Italy, Sweden, Lithuania, and Estonia); 2025 Public Consultation on A new Action Plan to implement the European Pillar of Social Rights; 2025 Public Consultation on the EU’s next long-term budget (Multiannual Financial Framework - MFF); Pathways to School Success; Digital Education Action Plan on the Recommendation on Promoting Shared Values and Social Inclusion through Formal and non-Formal Learning and the European Commission’s New Skills Agenda 3) Meetings with several EC officials. In October 2019, DG EAC Director-General Themis Christophidou’s attended Teach for All Global Conference and did a keynote speech by then on ‘European Commission’s priority agenda for teachers and the value of local leadership development’. In October 2020, Themis Christophidou and Michael Teustch engaged with several Teach For Partners’ CEOs during a workshop held virtually during Teach For All Global Conference 2020 and shared information about DG EAC’s priority agenda for school education and teacher development for the next 2021-2027 programming period. In March 2024, DG EAC Director-General Pia Ahrenkilde Hansen delivered the keynote speech at the NEST EU policy conference in Brussels, an Erasmus+ project led by the Ministry of Education of Bulgaria alongside Teach For Bulgaria, Teach For All and other network partners in the region. In March 2025, Nuria Diez-Guardia (DG EAC) participated as a speaker in a panel at the Teach For All Europe Conference in Vienna focused on education policy reform.

Communication Activities

In March 2025, Nuria Diez-Guardia (European Commission) participated as a speaker in a panel at the Teach For All Europe Conference in Vienna focused on policy reform. In April 2024, the Erasmus+ KA3 project: ‘Novice Educator Support and Training’ (NEST) that run over a period of 3 years, concluded. Led by the Ministry of Education of Bulgaria in partnership with Teach For Bulgaria, the NEST project draws on a consortium of 16 partners including Teach For All and multiple public, academic, and civil society organizations seeking to build and expand evidence of adaptive mentoring for novice teachers across the European Union. The overall objective of the project was to design, implement, evaluate and propose a system of new adaptive mentoring for novice teachers in disadvantaged schools. The Director General and two policy officers from DG EAC were speakers the NEST policy conference organized in March 2024 in Brussels as part of the exploitation phase of the NEST project. The final project report was also positively rated by the EACEA obtaining a final quality score of 90 out of 100. In July 2021, the Erasmus+ KA3 project: 'From Innovators in Inclusive Education to Real Scale Transfer (FIERST)', led by Teach For Bulgaria and bringing together Teach For All, Teach For Romania, Noored Kooli (i.e. our partner in Estonia) and several public authorities including Ministries of Education was successfully completed. By late 2019, Teach For All completed the following Erasmus+ KA3 funded project: ‘A New Way for New Talents in Teaching (NEWTT)’. This drew on a consortium of 15 partner organisations in Austria, Germany, Latvia, Romania, and the Basque Country (Spain). The independent impact evaluation carried out towards the end of the project implementation notably valued the relevance, innovative character and European added value of the project e.g. concluding that EU Member States’ national education and training systems should support alternative pathways into the education profession, as complementary to traditional teacher training programmes. The final project report was also positively rated by the EACEA obtaining a final quality score of 80 out of 100. Participation in events: a) In November 2024, Teach For All took part in an ESF+ Technical Working Group in Budapest, Hungary. b) In 2022, an alumni from Teach For Bulgaria participated in two events: - On the CULT Committee meeting, an alumni of Teach For Bulgaria took part in a hearing next to Michael Teutsch, Head of Unit "Schools and multilingualism" in the European Commission's Directorate General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture. - On the European Education Summit an alumni from Teach For Bulgaria was a speaker at the panel “Every Child Matters: Pathways to School Success”, speaking on a panel with Ministries of Education of Spain, Malta, Latvia, France and the President of the European Trade Union Committee for Education. c) In addition, the CEO of Teach For Bulgaria participated on various EU-level panel between 2018 and 2020 and another leadership staff member taking part in the European Commission's Working Group on Schools (Pathways to School Success sub-group) in 2022 . d) Teach for All was also represented at the 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2025 European Education Summits.

Interests Represented

Does not represent commercial interests

Member Of

Teach For All, Inc.is a 501(c)(3) U.S.-based nonprofit organization. Teach For All, Inc. is the sole member on the governing board of Teach For All Network (TFAN), a registered UK charity, meaning it has direct control over TFAN. TFAN functions as a subsidiary of Teach For All, Inc., with most of its funding coming from Teach For All, Inc., which steps in to cover any financial shortfalls. Historically, Teach For All leveraged its UK-based entity, TFAN, for advocacy and EU grants. TFAN had been registered as the main entity in the EU's Transparency Register until October 2024. However, the AISBL Teach For All, based in Belgium, will take on that role as of October 2024. Both Teach For All Inc. and TFAN are members of the Belgian AISBL. However, Teach For All, Inc. retains primary control over the AISBL and will continue supporting it financially, if needed. In summary, Teach For All used its UK entity to tap into EU-related activities until October 2024, but the Belgian AISBL has now taken over this role.

Organisation Members

Teach For All Network is a global network of 63 independent, locally led and governed partner organizations spread across the world. The network currently counts partners in 16 EU Member States, other European countries (the UK, Armenia and Ukraine) and 45 countries outside Europe. For a comprehensive overview of our membership, please also see: https://teachforall.org/network-partners

Additional Information

A significant portion of the incoming funds consists of re-granting and pass-through financing awarded to partner organizations within our network. These incoming funds do not contribute to our own operational expenses or interest representation activities, as they are strictly allocated for third-party project implementation.