TEACH FOR BANGLADESH
532 WALKER RD, GREAT FALLS, VA 22066 teachforbangladesh.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: TEACH OF BANGLADESH IS AN EXEMPT ORGANIZATION TO SUPPORT ITS COUNTER PART TEACH OF BANGLADESH IN BANGLADESH TO LAUNCH A MOVEMEWNT OF CAPABLE, COMMITTED AND COMPASSIONATE LEADERS IN BANGLADESH WHO SHARE AN UNDERSTANDING OF INEQUITY AND ARE WORKING TIRELESSLY INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THE NATION'S CLASSROOMS TO END ITS IMPACT ON CHILDREN.

Teach For BangladeshThe main organizational objectives for the year 2019 were as follows:Develop the leadership knowledge, skills and mindsets of the 148 first- and second-year Fellows.? Prior to January 2019, 97 new Fellows had been successfully trained at Winter Academy, (TFBs 6-week intensive pre-service pedagogical and leadership development training at BRAC Centre for Development Management, Savar). In 2019, TFB placed 35 Fellows in Chattogram and 62 in Dhaka.? 20 Professional Development sessions were organized as in-service training for all 148 Fellows to address teaching challenges faced in schools.? In consultation with Bangladeshi education experts, TFB generated three expanded vision statements for students, educators, and society that will form the basis of its long-term programmatic approach, monitoring, and evaluation of impact, and partnership with the education system between 2020-2025 Using these statements as touchstones, TFBs training team revised its Fellow Development Handbook that is being used to develop the leadership of Fellows.Increase the achievement of 7305 students in TFB classrooms.? TFB set up and grew operations in Chattagram to a 4 member team of coaches and a manager with dedicated office and training spaces. TFB placed Fellows in 15 new schools in Chattagram, increased the number of school partnerships to 53 and expanded into 5 education clusters within Dhaka and 2 education clusters within Chattogram. The new Leadership Development Managers supported Fellows in creating beginning of year, mid-year exams and end-year assessments for English and Math to measure student achievement in classrooms.? TFB students surpassed the national average by a wide margin in the standardized national Primary School Completion Exam. 37% of students taught by TFB Fellows scored in the top tier in 2019. Students had positive feedback for TFB Fellows, too. According to the Panorama survey (a Gates Foundation funded student perception survey designed by the company Panorama), 83% students reported that TFB Fellows create engaging learning environments for them; 93% reported having encouraging and supportive relationships with TFB Fellows. ? 27 Fellows from the 2017 cohort completed their last day of teaching on December 31, 2018 and became the first group of Alumni. An Alumni Induction event was organized for the graduated Fellows and to formally initiate the Alumni based movement to address Educational equity.? We hired 7 new coaches in 2019. ? A new Data and Impact Manager was hired to support Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning in the organization. Recruit Fellows to the fifth cohort of Teach For Bangladesh.? 11 recruitment events targeting prospective Fellows from 7 leading universities were hosted. TFB ran 3 Fellowship application deadlines between January to September 2019 to recruit Fellows for the 2020 Cohort, receiving 8049 registration and 2761 applications, out of which 65% was sourced from top universities, and generated a pool of 335 candidates considered to be high potential for the Fellowship program.? TFB invested in numerous social media campaigns and organized 5 Recruitment pitches and registration booths at 7 different universities in Dhaka and Chattogram, 1 social business competition, 1 leadership training, 1 CV writing workshop, 1 education entrepreneurship competition and participated in 2 career fairs. ? TFB experienced a successful year in terms of recruitment as well, netting 2761 Fellowship applications in 2019 with 379 applications from young professionals. 19 Fellows were ultimately admitted into the 2020 Fellowship.? We hired 2 new recruiters in 2019.? One of the team members attended Global Recruitment Conference held by Teach For All where they learned the best practices of other network partners and shared that knowledge with the team to implement in their work.Meet fundraising goals for FY 2018-19. ? We were able to diversify and strengthen our funding based through partnerships with Porticus Foundation, Catalyst Fund, DP-DHL. ? As a part of building our long term sustainability, we applied to UK Direct Aid, USAID, WFP for multi-year grants that will secure above 40% of our required funding for 3 to 5 years. TFB arranged school visits for the US Ambassador to Bangladesh Earl Miller and representatives of bilateral agencies. ? The organization has grown from 81 Fellows and 26 staff in September 2018 to 134 Fellows and 29 Staffs in September 2019, signaling a reduced Fellow-staff support ratio from 3.12 to 4.62 for this FY. ? Finance team has made progress on structuring TFBs regulatory deliverables, finalizing donor budgets, streamlining Fellow and staff bank salary accounts, setting medical benefits, drafting Reimbursement and Procurement policy, strengthening the functional internal control for data accuracy, as well as establishing a relationship with the Dhaka District Commissioners (DC) Office.

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