Shikshagraha partners with Teach For India to strengthen public education

Shikshagraha and Teach For India are joining forces to expand a movement focused on India’s public schools. The partnership combines Teach For India’s 17 years of experience developing teachers, young leaders and alumni with Shikshagraha’s network of civil society organizations, communities, governments and schools.

Shikshagraha says more than 390,000 leaders have already helped mobilize action across 210,000 public schools. The organization’s network includes more than 40 civil society groups working in 16 states. It says those efforts have produced more than 1.56 million “micro-improvements” in schools, including nearly 45,000 changes led directly by communities.

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Together, we hope to connect and amplify the agency of teachers, parents, young leaders, communities and institutions, so that every act of change can travel further and ultimately every child can experience a school where they are seen, supported and allowed to flourish and be future-ready.

The two organizations describe their roles as complementary. Teach For India brings experience in building leadership in classrooms, while Shikshagraha contributes a broader network aimed at turning local efforts into collective action. Over the coming year, the partnership will work on fellowship and leadership design, connections among Fellows and alumni, and a shared narrative around leadership, student voice and agency.

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This collective values the depth it takes to nurture leadership, and the vast network it takes to connect that leadership to a national movement.

Khushboo Awasthi, Shikshagraha’s chief curator, said the partnership would connect teachers, parents, young leaders, communities and institutions so that local initiatives could reach further. Teach For India CEO Shaheen Mistri said the collaboration would give the organization’s Fellows and alumni a wider platform for the work they are already doing.

Shikshagraha says its long-term goal is to strengthen one million public schools so that every child can learn effectively and prepare for the future. Teach For India describes itself as a nationwide movement of leaders working to provide quality education to all children.

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Working together means Teach For India Fellows and alumni get a bigger canvas for the change they are already making, and every child gets more adults, in more places, working together to unleash their greatest potential.