Teach For Uzbekistan
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About us

Part of the Teach For All network

Teach For Uzbekistan is one of 63 independent organizations around the world that share one idea: young leaders teaching in the schools that need them most.

What Teach For All is

Teach For All is a global network of independent, locally led and governed partner organizations. Each of them recruits promising young leaders to teach for two years in under-resourced schools and communities of its own country. Afterwards, many of them keep working — inside and outside education — so that every child can fulfil their potential.

The network was launched in 2007 by Wendy Kopp, who founded Teach For America in 1989, and Brett Wigdortz, who founded Teach First in the United Kingdom. Its global organization connects the partners so that they learn from one another, and supports new partners as they start.

Teach For Uzbekistan in the network

Teach For Uzbekistan became an official partner of Teach For All in September 2024. Like every partner, it is an independent organization of its own country: it selects its own Fellows, works under its own Memorandum of Cooperation with the Ministry of Preschool and School Education, and answers to its own Board of Trustees.

Watch: the network in action

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Leaders and patrons

The people who founded and lead the network, and patrons of its partner organizations.

  • Wendy Kopp

    CEO and co-founder of Teach For All; founded Teach For America in 1989

  • Brett Wigdortz

    Co-founder of Teach For All; founder of Teach First, the network’s UK partner

  • Gbenga Oyebode

    Chair of the Board of Teach For All

  • Andreas Schleicher

    Director for Education and Skills at the OECD; chair of the Global Advisory Council of Teach For All’s Global Institute

  • HM King Charles III

    Patron of Teach First, the network’s partner in the United Kingdom, since 2008

  • Sheikha Hind bint Hamad Al Thani

    Founder of Teach For Qatar (2014); Vice Chairperson of Qatar Foundation

Unifying principles

All 63 partners, Teach For Uzbekistan among them, commit to the same ten principles. Source: teachforall.org.

  • Pursue our global network’s shared purpose

    Pursue our global network’s shared purpose and theory of change rooted in our theory of the problem, live into our core values when working across the network, and contribute to our unifying vision and intended outcomes.

  • Recruit & select leaders

    Recruit and select a significant number of the country’s most promising leaders from diverse backgrounds, academic disciplines, and career interests, who demonstrate the values and capabilities to positively impact holistic outcomes of students in marginalized communities and become lifelong leaders who work with others to achieve systemic change.

  • Partner with schools & communities

    Partner with schools and communities to contribute to collective leadership among students, educators, and community members, initially with participants who make a two-year commitment to teach, with full responsibility for student learning, and ultimately with alumni who continue working to expand opportunity for children.

  • Support & develop participants

    Support and develop participants as leaders who work with students, families, and community members towards a shared vision for student success and gain the foundations for a lifetime of contribution to children fulfilling their potential.

  • Cultivate lifelong leadership

    Cultivate lifelong leadership among alumni so they can work collectively with students, families, and other stakeholders to enable all children to fulfill their potential.

  • Pursue measurable impact

    Pursue measurable impact on holistic student outcomes at the classroom and community levels.

  • Operate an autonomous organization

    Operate an autonomous organization with an independent board and a diversified funding base.

  • Partner with the public & private sectors

    Partner with the public and private sectors at every level to achieve shared goals and sustain local and national impact.

  • Build a diverse coalition of leaders

    Build a diverse coalition of leaders including team members, participants, alumni, students and supporters, with a commitment to the representation and inclusion of those who have experienced the inequities we’re addressing.

  • Uphold the inherent dignity and worth of all people

    Uphold the inherent dignity and worth of all people, within and across borders, through all aspects of the organization’s work.

Results and reach worldwide

What the network achieves together — Teach For All’s own figures for 2026.

partner organizations
63
continents
6
participants teaching in their two-year commitment
14,500
students reached by current participants
1.5 million
alumni worldwide
113,000
of alumni keep working for children’s opportunities
75%+

Teach For All, “Our Network in 2026” · teachforall.org/network-partners ↗

Members: 63 countries

Each orange country has its own partner organization, founded and led locally. Uzbekistan is ringed.

World map: the 63 countries where Teach For All network partners work; Uzbekistan is marked with a ring.
Teach For All partner (63 countries)Uzbekistan — Teach For Uzbekistan

63 partner organizations

What membership brings to Uzbekistan

  • International expertise

    Experts from across the network help run the five-week Summer Institute that prepares our Fellows for the classroom.

  • Proven measurement

    We measure classroom quality with Panorama Education, the student survey used across the Teach For All network.

  • A global community

    Fellows and Alumni learn from peers in other countries who face similar challenges and share what works.

Milestones for Uzbekistan

  • September 2024 — Teach For Uzbekistan joins Teach For All as an official partner.
  • June 2025 — Saida Mirziyoyeva meets Teach For All CEO Wendy Kopp and calls Teach For Uzbekistan a key part of the education reform.
  • July 2025 — on her first visit to Uzbekistan, Wendy Kopp calls Teach For Uzbekistan “an antidote to brain drain”.
  • June 2026 — the first cohort completes the two-year Fellowship: TFU’s first 12 Alumni.

Join the movement in Uzbekistan

Teach for two years in a regional school — or support the Fellows who do.

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