So who will lead this change?

Breaking the complex relationship between social disadvantage and poor educational outcomes requires deep and systemic change. It relies on an ambitious vision shared by many people, articulated by many voices and built by many hands. 

Most of all, it requires strong leadership.

Across classrooms and school communities, the education and government sectors, the business community, academia, philanthropies and individuals, we need leaders off all backgrounds and interests to play a role paving the way for the kind of change that can help us address this problem and start making gains.

It is a question not only of social good, but of realising true and measurable social, cultural and economic benefits. Indeed, with workplace and skill constraints in some of our most productive yet socially disadvantaged areas, the economic imperatives of our mission grow stronger by the year.

Right now, Teach For Australia is empowering outstanding teachers in the classroom and an ambitious network of leaders in the community, who have already begun walking this path. Through harnessing the energy, enthusiasm and drive of exceptional individuals towards our mission, and proliferating this movement into all levels of community, Teach For Australia – and you – will make a social impact with far reaching returns.