Teach For Slovakia is a part of a global movement in over 30 countries working to enlist nations’ most promising future leaders in committing two years to teach in high-need areas, and in the long-term develop them into a force of leaders who will work throughout their careers to effect systemic change in education

1. Let’s channel best talent into education to give our
children a chance to succeed in life
Introduction of Teach For All program and its implementation plan in Slovakia
Discussion document for potential partners and supporters
Author:
Stanislav Boledovič
Contact:
stanislav.boledovic@manageria.org
January 2013

2.  is a non-profit independent civil society initiative aiming to improve education quality and
equity through engaging country’s most promising leaders into education
 is among largest global education organization operating in 30 countries and engaging over
58 thousand teachers
 has been widely acknowledged for its impact and has strong support of leading business
firms, education authorities and governments
Teach For All core mission is to
enlist nations’ most promising future leaders
in committing two years to teach in high-need
areas,
and in the long-term develop them into a force of
leaders who will work throughout their
careers to effect systemic change in
education
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3. TEACH FOR ALL MODEL CAN EFFECTIVELY ADDRESS 3 MAJOR ISSUES IN
SLOVAK EDUCATION
1
Unattractive
teacher
career
2
Low
education
level at
Roma
communities
3
Lacking
leadership
We urgently need to attract young talent into classrooms
 Less than 1% of our brightest graduates are selecting education as their career of choice
 Tests of students entering teacher studies revealed that recruited students had lowest
scores on generic knowledge compared to students of any other field
We need to engage country’s best talent to educate Roma children
 for the first time in our history we experience 2nd-generationunemployment and poverty,
where unemployment rate in Roma communities is 95%
 only 20% (compared to national average of 88%) of Roma children complete higher
education
 traditional techniques and teachers fail in attempt to educate Roma people
We need to cultivate new generation of strong education leaders
 Leadership at school level is critically low, where 65% of teachers say they are
demotivated by school principal
 Majority of Slovak do not trust our education leaders and 92% of them think, that
education system is not preparing our children for their jobs
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4. HOW IT WORKS?
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5. SEE HOW THE PROGRAM WORKS AND DELIVERS IMPACT
23 years ago, a fresh Princeton graduate Wendy Kopp started Teach For America. She could not accept situation where
millions of kids where receiving poor education, not even being able to read or count at age 10. She setup for a quest that
One Day, All Children will have the opportunity to attain an excellent education. 23 years later we are starting to see how
her vision is starting to materialize across the country.
Watch clips illustrating impact of her idea and the secrets behind Teach For America - Click on the photo to watch the video
It all begins with vision everyone at Teach For America believes: "Now we see, it is absolutely
possible, to ensure that all of our kids can attain an excellent education"
Wendy Kopp, Founder of Teach For America:
Teachers do much more than is expected: "Teach For America teachers went over and beyond
the duty of the teacher. They taught kids how to learn, how to think, they taught them the life"
Tonya Johnson, Holmes Elementary School Specialist
And foremost – they take full responsibility for education of „their“ the children: "I don't care from
what environment the child is. I don't care if it's drugs, if it's single parents, if the parents don't speak
English. If that kid comes to me, that kid will get an excellent education"
Geoffrey Canada, Founder of Harlem Children Zone
To transform education, Teach For America understands creating thousands of great teachers is
not enough. Their objective is to develop education dedicated leaders: „None of us will be surprised,
when one day, a women sitting in the White house, will be Teach For America alum“
Kaya Henderson, Chancellor of DC Public schools, Teach For America Alum
One person can change the world, but cannot accomplish it alone. Teach For America was designed
from beginning to become a movement: "I believe the education movement being led by the Teach For
America alumni is the most important civil rights movement of our time“
Walter Isaacson, President of Aspen Institute
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6. IN SLOVAKIA WE CAN DELIVER CHANGE BOTH IN SHORT AND LONG-TERM
HORIZONS
Immediate
goals
(3 years)
Bringing 100 of our best young talents with high-energy to most desperate schools
Bringing “we can learn” attitude to classrooms in regions where people are desperate as
criminality and unemployment soars, and children are expected to fail in education.
Inspiring thousands of students to consider teaching career
Demonstrating that the teaching profession is one of the toughest and most important
jobs in our society selected by the best graduates, thus inspiring many talented young
people to follow and select teaching career
Medium
term result
(10 years)
Building a strong cohort of 500 future education leaders
(school principals, political leaders)
Changing lives of 15 000 children who are now destined to fail
Our teacher leaders will challenge schools and children in hundreds of schools to give them
education that will allow them to succeed in life and exit vicious poverty circle
Long-term
vision
(20 years)
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7. COSTS AND FUNDING OF TEACH FOR SLOVAKIA
Preparation year
(2013/14)
Year 1
(2014/15)
Running costs
(2016-2020)
COSTS
Recruiting best talent
95 000
140 000
140 000
Teachers program and development costs
 Leader-teacher training and support
 Relocation costs and stipends
45 000
0
170 000
75 000
310 000
150 000
0
5 000
50 000
110 000
40 000
220 000
40 000
220 000
40 000
65 000
110 000
110 000
Supporting alumni community impact
Organization development
(investment into people, funding and knowledge)
 Global trainings and support in Teach For All
 Local fundraising, PR and team development
Management and operation costs
0,36 mil.
FUNDING
Leading philanthropists
Strategic partners (corporations and foundations)
Government / EU funds
Individual donations
0,75 mil.
1,0 mil.
100 000
150 000
150 000
80 000
150 000
250 000
170 000
380 000
500 000
10 000
70 000
100 000
0,36 mil.
0,75 mil.
1,0 mil.
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8. 2 YEAR IMPLEMENTATION PROGRAM IS REACHING ITS FINAL STAGE
Phase
Feasibility study
Securing support
and resources
Program launch
Young leaders
in classroom
December 23
Go / No-Go decision
1 year
 Sep 2012 – June 2013
½ year
 July – December 2013
½ year
 January – August 2014
Key
activities
 Analysis of education
landscape
 Analysis of funding
opportunities
 Visits to countries
operating Teach For All
program
 Designing Teach For All
model to situation in
Slovakia
 Acquiring support of major
teacher organizations an
leaders
 Official meeting of Ministry
of Education with Teach For
All representatives
 Visiting Teach For All Global
summit
 Meetings with potential
donors, team-members and
program ambassadors
 Organization setup
 Team recruiting
 Web page and promo
materials design
 Recruiting campaign at
universities
 Securing places at
schools for our to-be
participants
 Training participants
Output
 Path to teacher placement
defined
 Teach For Slovakia
blueprint document
created
 50% of funds needed
secured
 Gained support from key
stakeholders, including
ministry of education
 Board of trusteed created
 Program publicly
 Participants achieving
announced
acceptance at schools
 At least 100 graduates
from principal, teachers,
applied to the program
children and parents
 10-20 graduates selected,
trained and placed into
schools
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Timing
 September 2013
 Relocation of participants
 School visits and on the
job coaching
 Measuring participants
impact in the classroom
 Promoting program
launch in media

9. KEY OPINION LEADERS IN BUSINESS AND EDUCATION HAVE BECOME
AMBASSADORS OF TEACH FOR SLOVAKIA
Marika Barancová
Gabriel Beer
Stanislav Boledovič
Beata Brestenská
Vlado Burjan
Daniel Bútora
Karel Janeček
Ján Hero
President of Slovak
chamber of
Teachers
Journalist and
Member of
Board at SPP
foundation
Co-founder of
Manageria
Ucitel2020, and
Teach For Slovakia
Teacher trainer
and advisor to the
Ministry of
Education
Founder of Exam
testing, expert in
educational
testing
Educator and
manager of
school network
CS Lewis
Owner of RSJ and
philanthropist in
area of corruption
and education
Founding principal of first
Roma boarding school,
member of government
office for Roma situation
Michal Hvorecký
Marián Kolník
Peter Holík
Marketing expert,
former CEO at
CreoYoung &
Rubicam
Writer, educator
and citizen
activist
Lector Franlin
Covey
Rasťo Kulich
Norika Liptáková
Janette Mazíniová
Alena Petáková
Anton Zajac
Country
manager Google
Slovensko
Teacher in poverty
communities, Cofounder Detstvo
deťom
Roma leader,
educator
and writer
President of
Association of
elementary
schools
Co-owner of
ESET,
philantropist in
education
… MAJOR BUSINESS LEADERS ARE EXCITED TO SUPPORT THE PROGRAM
... AND WE HAVE GAINED FULL SUPPORT OF
MINISTRY OF EDUCATION
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10. HOW LONG WILL CENTRAL
EUROPE REMAIN BLANK ON
TEACH FOR ALL MAP
?
Teach For All program
COMPARISON OF KEY PROGRAMS ATTRIBUTES ACROSS COUNTRIES
Number of inhabitants
310 mil.
60 mil.
7 mil.
5 mil.
Number of participants
11 000
2 100
70
80
244 mil.
30 mil.
0,9 mil.
1 mil.
22 thousand
15 thousand
13 thousand
14 thousand
Budget
Cost per participant
Start year
1990
2002
2011
2014
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11. WILL YOU BECOME A PART OF CHANGE OF THIS MOVEMET FOR
EDUCATION CHANGE? JOIN US AS A SUPPORTER, PARTNER OR CHAMPION
PRELIMINARY – ongoing discussions with partners
Supporter
Private individuals or small business providing pro-bono services or smaller financial support
Total support up to 10 000 EUR annually. Typical support would be covering a 3 000 EUR stipend for young
graduate joining Teach for Slovakia, who would go for 2 years to teach in disadvantaged communities
 We regularly invite our supporters to community meetings with education leaders and top
graduates in program, to discuss strategy and rejoice in results of our activities.
Respected business providing significant pro-bono services or financial support
Total support over 10 000 EUR annually. Typical support would be providing pro-bono services on a large
scale, or major financial gift
Partner
Marketing campaign
Negotiation training
to young teachers
Leadership training to
young teachers
Google ads grant
 We promote our supporters on web page and other materials, and we encourage networking between top
talents in the program with supporters.
Business leaders providing finance to run the program
Total over 20 000 EUR annually
Champion
 We invite our champions to advisory board to work together with us on designing the strategy of the
program. Leaders from our Champions can become personal mentors to our talents in the program.
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12. APPENDIX
 About Manageria and project leader
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13. ABOUT MANAGERIA
Manageria is a non-profit civil society of students, managers and people of all walks of life,
who are committed to improving Slovakia. People in Manageria share a belief, that developing
young people into competent and moral leaders, is the most effective way how to make
sustainable improvements to the world around us.
Manageria mission is to educate and support young people, by developing their expertise,
values and network and Manageria is delivering this mission through 3 pillars:
• Leadership programs
• Education programs
• School reform and teacher programs
Manageria was founded in 2008 by a group of students and managers, who delivered over
300 education lectures, debates, seminars, conferences,“mentorships or engagements to
thousands of young people. Next to its own activities, Manageria delivers on its mission
through estabilishing or supporting new education and leadership enterprises. Recently,
Manageria has helped to estabilish Global shapers from World Economic Forum or Detstvo
deťom from Dobšiná teachers.
Among Manageria priorities for 2013 is to implemet Teach For All model in Slovakia. Since
August 2012 Manageria has been working with Teach For All headquarters on the feasiblity
study and implementation plan.

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ĽUDIA ZA MANAGERIOU
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Rasťo Kulich
country managing director Google
„Verím, že svojou troškou
pomôžem vychovať lídrov, ktorí
zlepšia Slovensko“
Táňa Ondrejková
spoluvlastníčka Pelikán
Irma Chmelová
Zakladateľka Pro Senior
Marek Gešo
Marketing manažér Accenture
Jana Pastorková
učiteľka
Peter Krajňák
Spoluzakladateľ UniValue
Martin Filko
hlavný ekonóm Ministerstva financií
Kto je
Manageria?
Andrej Krištúfek
zakladateľ Invent
Michal Meško
spoluvlastník Martinus.sk
Jozef Bardík
Podnikateľ a Angel investor
„Manageria je jeden z najlepších
spôsobom ako vychovať ľudí, s
ktorými sa bude dať svet zmeniť“
Igor Tóth
Marketing manager, Telefónica
Pavol Varga
country managing director DELL
„Stotožňujem sa s misiou
Managerie vychovávať novú
generáciu slušných lídrov“
Ivana Boledovičová
Výkonný riaditeľ Manageria
Andrea Tittelová
zakladateľ Youth Politics Education
Matej Sapák
Leaf
Michal Kitko
Marketingový špecialista
Martin Mikláš
Člen predstavenstva, RWE Polska
Prečo
financujú
Manageriu?
Michal Maxian
zakladateľ Startup Weekend
Ľubica Šebestová
partner, ADDA
Peter Marcus Virsik
Adidas Group Director CEE
„Tie peniaze si aj tak nezoberiem
do hrobu, a ak má niečo zmysel
podporovať, tak je to vzdelávanie.“
Radoslav Tausinger
Investičný riaditeľ Gimv
Stanislav Boledovič
spoluzakladateľ Aspiro
Jakub Hollósy
vedúci tímu, Volkswagen
Marián Kolník
lektor, FranklinCovey
Kristin LaRonca Parpel
zakladateľka KPL coaching
„Manageria dokáže za tie peniaze
urobiť viac dobrého, ako by som
to dokázal ja sám“
Michal Matys podnikateľ,
spoluvlastník Translata
Mirka Rusnoková
analytik Leaf o.z.
„Verím tomu, že mladí ľudia, ktorí
sú v Managerii, dokážu meniť
Slovensko k lepšiemu “
Peter Krišťák
, spoluzakladateľ Pricewise
Marek Skysľak
Country manager P&G SK-CZ
Jaroslava Gregová
projektový manažér, Aspiro
Andrej Kiska
zakladateľ Dobrého anjela
Ivan Jakúbek Vice-President
Enterprise Investors
Čo ste videli existuje vďaka 65
ľuďom, ktorí posielajú 1% svojich
príjmov na vybrané aktivity.
Ktorá aktivita zaujala Vás?
Pridajte sa k nám!
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15. ABOUT PROJECT LEADER
Stanislav Boledovič
Stanislav is a social entrepreneur working to make significant improvement in education
system in Slovakia. Prior his philanthropic career, he was a top management consultant
serving CEOs mostly in financial services. His core expertise include:
 Building teams, headhunting and supporting young talents
 Strategic analysis and setup of new products and ventures
Stanislav was born in 1976, is married and has two children. Write blogs at www.etrend.sk
 Teach for Slovakia (2012-today) – CEO preparing launch of the program
 Učiteľ 2020 (2012-today) – Co-Founder and leader of the program
 Stredná odborná škola dizajnu (2012-dnes) – Math teacher, part-time
 World Economic Forum (2012-2013) – Founding curator of Global Shapers hub in Bratislava
 Aspiro (2009-today) – Co-founder and member of supervisory board
 Manageria (2007-today) - – Co-founder and chairman
of the board
 Fakulta managementu Univerzita Komenského (2005-today) – External teacher
 Poštová banka (2004-2007) – Advisor to the CEO and leader of the office responsible for strategic projects
 Raiffeisen banka CZ (2004) - Advisor to the CEO responsible for design of new strategy
 McKinsey & Company (2000-2003) - Consultant