Let’s talk about collective leadership!

Collective Leadership inside and outside the classroom

Teach for Italy’s two-year Fellowship program aims to transform our Fellows into collective leaders of a movement for educational change. We support them through coaching and mentoring, allowing them to further enhance and refine their skills, as they create a network of passionate individuals capable of improving the system by working on the many levers and all the sectors required to transform education for children, collaborating to create impact. Collective leadership is a core concept of the Teach For Italy and Teach For All methodology in more than 60 countries, investing in the future leadership of our education systems starting from our most disadvantaged and underserved schools and communities. 

As leaders in the classroom, Fellows both help to provide students with the foundational tools that lead to increased learning outcomes, as well as the motivation to become collective leaders themselves. They help students contribute to the shared idea of a more just and equitable future, that begins with dialogue and discussion, and leads to students knowing how to find solutions to common problems, for themselves and for others. Fellows see it everyday in the classroom: students are more confident, successfully communicate their opinions with the openness to welcome those of their classmates and begin to develop their future goals.

As future leaders in the system, over the two year Fellowship, they are exposed to different school districts, national and international best practices, and are pushed to reflect on what needs changing at all levels of our school districts. 

A group of Fellows visited the association “Arci Porco Rosso” in the Ballarò district of Palermo - an example of community organization that exercises collective leadership