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July
Building Bridges to Opportunity: Holistic Career Education and Meaningful Employer Partnerships
July 15, 2025
In a world shaped by rapid technological change, global uncertainty, and widening skills gaps, preparing students to thrive as adaptable leaders is more urgent than ever. This webinar brings together educators, career education practitioners, industry partners, and youth to examine what it takes to transform education at both school and system levels. It emphasizes embedding career education throughout the learner’s journey, adopting holistic approaches, and fostering impactful education-industry partnerships. The session also creates a platform to discuss and generate actionable insights and recommendations to guide meaningful actions at every level.
This call will be held in English with Spanish and Arabic interpretation and will take place on July 15th at 1:00pm – 2:30pm GMT | 8:00–9:30 AM EST.
Register here.
If you have any questions, reach out to @email or @email.
People First Talks with John Kania and Laura Calderón de la Barca
July 16, 2025
In this People First Talk, we’ll be joined by John Kania and Laura Calderón de la Barca from the Collective Change Lab.
In this talk, we’ll explore how trauma lives in systems—and how collective healing can become a vital lever for transformation. What does it take to truly shift systems?
John Kania is internationally recognized as a pioneer in systems thinking and collective impact. He has co-authored foundational works including Collective Impact, The Dawn of System Leadership, the Relational Work of Systems Change and Healing Systems.
Laura Calderón de la Barca, also co-author of Healing Systems, brings deep expertise in collective and intergenerational trauma and healing, A psychotherapist, researcher, educator, she works with communities across Latin America, Africa, and beyond to integrate healing into the fabric of social change.
This call will take place on July 16, 2025 at 9:00 AM ET / 1:00 PM GMT/ 4:00 PM EAT.
Register here.
Shaping a Better Future Conversation Series – with Fred Swaniker & Wendy Kopp
July 17, 2025
What does it take to develop the leaders our future needs?
Join us for the first episode of a new conversation series from the Global Institute for Shaping a Better Future, an initiative of Teach For All. The series brings together bold thinkers and doers who are reimagining how we grow the kind of leadership our world urgently needs.
This inaugural conversation will feature Wendy Kopp, CEO and Co-founder of Teach For All, in conversation with Fred Swaniker, Founder of the African Leadership Group. Together they’ll explore what it really takes to develop young leaders prepared to take on hard challenges facing people and planet, and shape a better future for themselves and all of us.
This one-hour live session will be held in English and will take place on July 17th at 2:00pm UTC.
Register here to join the live conversation.
Grow Your Future: Inspiring Young People to Lead Their Educational and Career Journeys
July 29, 2025
Nicole's twenty-year journey as a career education entrepreneur and Forbes contributor showcases the cumulative power of purpose, passion and innovative thinking in addressing complex career alignment challenges facing youth in underserved communities. Through GrowMyFuture, Nicole has created an initiative that combines self-discovery, expansive career exploration, and practical trainingto support young people thrive in their educational and career journeys. By equipping educators with plug-and-play curriculum to inspire and guide their students, GrowMyFuture bridges gaps in career readiness and helps students approach their futures with confidence, adaptability, and a growth mindset.
This session invites career readiness professionals and educators passionate about student success to explore Nicole’s inspiring work, delve into the impactful GrowMyFuture program, and discover collaboration opportunities.
- Objectives
- Transform your students' futures by learning how purpose, passion, and innovative thinking can directly address the multifaceted educational and career challenges confronting underserved youth.
- Gain a deep understanding of the GrowMyFuture program—an initiative designed to equip educators with practical training, emotional development strategies, and self-discovery tools—to help students approach their futures with confidence, direction, adaptability, and a growth mindset.
- Discuss ways to adapt and implement the GrowMyFuture program within your context, creating more opportunities to support students in navigating their educational and career paths effectively.
Target audience: Educators, school leaders, and career readiness professionals who are passionate about supporting students in underserved communities and preparing them to thrive in their educational and career journeys.
This call take place on July 29th at 2:00pm GMT and will be held in English, with Spanish interpretation available.
Register here.
August
Deadline
Aug 06
Africa Alumni Networking Circles - August Call
August 07, 2025
Join our Africa Alumni networking circles and get a chance to learn from alumni and connect with even more. These bimonthly calls will feature fireside chats where alumni from different network partners in the region will share their unique stories, successes and impact.
For the August call, we will be learning from alumni from Teach For Ethiopia.
Alumni Spotlight: Ayalsew Yemata, Teach For Ethiopia alum.
*This call is only for alumni in the Africa region.
This call will take place on August 7th, 2025 at 2:00pm GMT
Register here.
This call will be held in English and Amharic - አማርኛ, with the option for attendees to request translation and/or interpretation in additional languages.
Pagination
This online, self-paced program has been designed to help learners explore how education systems are impacted by unexpected crises, such as war or natural disasters. This 'EiE' online course is made up of 5 modules that address the foundations of emergency education, including virtual visits to explore teaching and learning inside real crisis-affected classrooms.
The objective is to build a foundational knowledge of EiE and to hear directly from students and teachers who have been caught up in crises. By the end of this course, we hope that participants will have a better understanding of how Teach For All network partners have responded to different emergencies, and learn more about the principles which guide our network’s approach to working in humanitarian contexts
This self-paced online course is open to all network staff members, participants and alumni.
Read more details about the course objectives here, or listen to this short video. To register your interest in this program, complete and submit this registration form and we'll contact you as soon as the program goes live.
This course is open to all and introduces participants to fundamental concepts, issues, and challenges in girls education globally. It covers key topics including access, safety, reproductive health, gender norms, the role of boys and men, and girls’ leadership.
The course can be taken at your own pace, and you can choose your own level of engagement. Members of the Teach For All network can complete the course with or without taking the questionnaire at the end to receive a certificate (the certificate is only available if you take the course via Bridge).
To be eligible for the fellowship, you must complete the course, answer the questionnaire, and receive a certificate of completion. Once you have earned your certificate, your information will be captured and you will be informed about the opening of the next fellowship.
Please register here.
The Teach For All + Oak Foundation Inclusive Education Course invites innovative teachers and teacher coaches from across our global network and beyond to join an interactive course focused on inclusive education for learners with disabilities and learning differences.
The course centers on who learners are aware (understand the social, political and cultural context in which students learn and grow, including cultural identities and systemic injustices) and how they learn (agency; taking responsibility for one’s learning and believing in one’s ability to determine a life path and impact others).
Through this course, we will individually and collectively reflect on Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy, Universal Design for Learning, and Metacognition to support us in creating reimagined and inclusive environments that allow every child to shine and create a better world for themselves and all of us.
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This course is hosted on Bridge. If you have an existing account on Bridge, you can access the course by clicking the link of your preferred language above. If you do not have a Bridge account, please complete this request, and we will respond to you as soon as possible with an account.

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