We were thrilled to once again attend the Global Teachers Institute annual GTI Axis Summit in July. The 2024 Summit theme, “Lead from any Chair,” drew inspiration from Ben Zander’s approach, which advocates for leadership that extends beyond traditional roles and titles. This inclusive theme underscored the belief that leadership potential exists in every position, […]
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We spent a week in July working with the Pride ‘n Purpose Preschools in Dumphries, South Africa, which Virgin Unite has helped build and run. Our Teach With Africa/ Town School for Boys team consisted of Flora Mugambi-Mutunga, Town School’s Director of Community Building and Inclusion; Rachel Hollister, Kindergarten Teacher; and Michelle Lawton, Alumni Parent. […]
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Earlier this year, before our summer trip to Africa, we had a successful Educator Exchange Program here in the U.S. In March of 2024, 11 educators from South Africa traveled to the Bay Area and were placed across seven K-12 public, independent, and charter schools in San Francisco, Oakland, and Palo Alto. The South African […]
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We’re excited to have our local Bay Area partner schools hosting the 2024 South African cohort for the month! View this post on Instagram A post shared by Global Teachers Institute (@global_teachers_institute) View this post on Instagram A post shared by Mac Seater (@brillianslim)
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“I was invited to go to South Africa as a Teach With Africa Fellow, July 2023. I had the chance to visit Pretoria, Cape Town, and Johannesburg. I had no idea what to expect, but the summit was invigorating. The working sessions were thought-provoking and inspiring. Other participants and I all recognized that though we […]
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“Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development”. ~ Kofi Annan~ The late UN Secretary-General. GTI Axis Summit Theme: “Revive, Refresh, Regenerate Education In a Post-Pandemic Era” A group of TWA Bay Area educators from The Hamlin School for Girls […]
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Teach With Africa is proud to continue its long collaboration with its South African partners The Global Teacher’s Institute (GTI). GTI is a teacher development network committed to nurturing high-quality teachers through international exchanges and collaborative platforms. GTI’s Fellows are a cohort of South African teachers enrolled in the GTI program. Global Teacher’s Institute continued […]
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(Diepsloot, Johannesburg, South Africa) LEAP 4 moved into its new building at the start of 2020. LEAP moved from a hall that they were sharing with a primary school, which with the noise was a constant distraction for the students and teachers of LEAP 4. The school was incomplete at the end of 2019, but […]
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Teach with Africa is thrilled to welcome Dr. Fay Hodza to his role as Executive Director for the Global Teachers Institute! Watch this brief video interview with Dr. Fay Hodza, as he tells us what he envisions for our partnership and for South Africa.
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By the time I finally walked through the doors of the LEAP School for Science and Maths in Langa Township in Cape Town last summer, I had been hearing about the school for twelve years. Through my involvement with Teach With Africa, I had learned that the personal, social and economic losses, created by the gross inequities in math and science education enshrined by law under apartheid, are incalculable, even to this day.
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