Yes. There are three main ways you can fundraise. Most Fellows use some combination of them.

1. Get a contribution from your school. In recognition of your Fellowship being high-value professional development many schools support their teachers financially. You can use the School partnerships guide and your confirmation letter to engage your Head of Teaching and Learning and your Principal/ Head Teacher.
2. Fundraise in your school. Running a whole school initiative or charity event. There are lots of ways to do this and this fundraising guide gives you some ideas.
3. Fundraise outside school. Engage your family and friends by sharing what you are doing, completing a challenge, organising an event, or crowdfunding online. We provide each Fellow with branded fundraising tools so you can run a really effective online fundraising campaign.

We encourage Fellows to set up a fundraising campaign page using the guidance provided here. For additional support and advice, contact a member of our team via LiveChat.

There are lots of Inspiring Teachers resources available to support you with your campaign. To get your hands on template posters, flyers, videos, logos and selected photos visit our fundraising support page.

Inspiring Teachers is a non-profit social enterprise that works to widen access to quality education. We do this by partnering with local education organisations and running evidence-based teacher training programs in high need areas. Your Fellowship forms a key part of a cross-border teacher training partnership that is designed to improve learning outcomes in low-resource settings and galvanise a teaching community.

Of course. Our brand pack is full of all media assets and also shares guidance on how and where to use our logo, colour palettes, imagery and visual language. If you have any further requests contact a member of our team via Livechat.

Absolutely! Take a look at our YouTube Channel where you will find lots of shorts films to help you highlight and promote our work and your fundraising.

Your personal letter of confirmation can also be found as an attachment in your welcome email. If for any reason you can’t locate it in your email history or via the portal, we’d be more than happy to resend it to you. We also provide a template confirmation letter which you can download here and edit to suit your purpose.

It can take us a couple of weeks to process your donations that are sent in the form of a cheque but online donations should be reflected immediately against your campaign. Any contributions made towards your Fellowship membership will be deducted and will be reflected in your portal. If you’re worried about anything, please get in touch via LiveChat or email.

Gift Aid is a scheme which allows charities to claim from back taxes that people making donations or paying membership fees have paid at source. For UK taxpayers, Gift Aid increases the value of donations by 25%, enabling taxpayers to contribute more to the causes they care about. Clicking to confirm you are happy for Inspiring Teachers to claim gift aid won’t cost you extra and enables you to maximise your impact as a Fellow. This scheme only applies to the UK.

f you’ve set up an online fundraising page in the UK your donors will be asked if they’re eligible to claim Gift Aid, so you don’t need to do anything. If they’re a UK tax-payer it will be added automatically provided they select “Yes” to claiming Gift Aid.

How your fundraising is spent will depend entirely on the campaign you’ve run. We encourage all Fellows to set up their campaign using our 50/50 model. This means 50% of the money raised goes towards your fellowship costs, and 50% goes towards supporting local teacher participation in the 11 countries we run programs.

As a UK-based organization, we have a UK charity that is equivalent to a 501C. We are in the process of registering a US-based 501C charity. We’re in the process of getting this underway, with an aim to have it in operation by autumn 2020.

During the Fellowship you will spend your time facilitating the “Institute component” of a professional development program for teachers. As a fellow, you will play the role of workshop facilitator and peer coach. The role involves teamwork to facilitate workshops and then 1-1 peer learning relationships with teachers.

• During workshop days Fellows work together in pairs to co-facilitate sessions for a group of eight local teachers. Typically workshops occur for 1 day/week with each workshop including four sessions. Sessions are usually 1.5 hours long and will focus on a particular principle of effective teaching. This means you will be involved in collaborative planning and facilitating 10-15 sessions. Workshops are heavily focused on practice as a way of building skills and habits.
• For in-school coaching, each Fellow works with four local teachers during their Fellowship. During days in school, you aim to observe each teacher for 15-20 minutes each day and then have a 10-15 minute peer feedback/ instructional coaching session focused on a single action step you’ve identified during your observation.

We keep our program design flexible and adaptive so that we can facilitate a training that is strategically designed to meet the needs of each individual teacher. You will receive full training and be provided with tools to support you in being effective as a Fellow.

Outside of the time spent in the classroom, there is the opportunity to participate in excursions, explore the sites and experience the culture and food of the country you are visiting.

To take part in a Fellowship you must be a qualified teacher. If your partner is a teacher, they’re more than welcome to apply and join you on the team. We’ve had a number of couples do a Fellowship together. If your partner is not a teacher, should they wish to come, we request that they stay elsewhere and not with the team. Our recommendation is that they join you after the Fellowship.

Unfortunately, we are not able to accommodate children on our Fellowships at this stage due to the nature of our shared accommodation. The training days on the Fellowship are also quite full-on and it would be difficult to supervise children in this environment.

Fellows’ financial contributions are split into a few components.

A 5-year Inspiring Teachers membership. Once they become a member they will have secured their position on a team and get full access to their portal. They’ll also be invited to events and kept up to date through regular updates.

A Fellowship Membership Contribution covers the in-country program. This covers everything from pre-Fellowship training, in-country orientation, accommodation and facilities, transport and food, 24-hr support, training materials, tools & logistics, school visits, and workshops.

Finally, additional excursions. Excursions are optional extras that can be added by Fellows in their portal. As a Team Leader, part of your role will be to recommend excursions to Fellows and encourage them to get involved in the weekend activities to get the fullest experience of the location.

Our Fellows Membership Fees and Contributions are the core of Inspiring Teachers’ financial sustainability model. It varies from location to location but on average, we use approximately 55% of membership contributions to operate the in-country institute component of the program and the remainder is put towards marketing, recruitment, program development, and staffing. We supplement Fellows contributions with philanthropic fundraising and income from excursions. Each year, we try to reinvest in and strengthen our program and systems to support long-term growth and impact. We do not make a profit or draw dividends.

If Fellows make payments online via their portal they are processed within a few minutes and should be reflected in their portal, once the page is refreshed.

If Fellows make payments by check or using online banking, payments can take up to 7 days or more to process, so please reassure Fellows if their balance is not showing their recent payments.

If Fellows have set up independent fundraising campaigns, money can take several weeks to clear. This is worth knowing in the event that any of your Fellows wish to make Fellowship contributions using donations.

Finally, if a Fellow’s contribution is being paid for by their school, it can take varying amounts of time for payments to be sent and cleared.

If a Fellow is having trouble submitting a payment there are a number of possible explanations. Supporting Fellows to diagnose the problem is important to ensure Fellows feel a sense of security and confidence in the process.

Often, it’s something simple. An unstable internet connection or incorrect card details are the most common issues. Visa, Mastercard, and American Express are all accepted, but some card types are not. So one possible explanation could be that the card type being used to pay is not supported.

If none of the above seems to resolve the issue, it’s likely to be a technical fault, either on our portal or our payment checkout provider. The best way to resolve technical issues is to ask Fellows to send a screenshot of the error they are seeing so our tech support team can understand the problem and fix it easier.

Please ask Fellows to report any technical support issues, with screenshots if possible, to info@inspiringteachers.org

If a Fellow has queries in relation to changes, transfers, and cancellation of their Fellowship, the best place to go for full information is our terms and conditions page here.

It’s worth advising all Fellows to take out comprehensive travel insurance once they have paid their Membership to help protect them, should they need to cancel.

Memberships and Fellowship contributions are non-refundable but can be transferred to another program. Excursion payments are usually refundable, but not guaranteed.

Fellows wishing to defer or cancel their place need to submit such a request in writing to info@inspiringteachers.org.

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Every person representing Inspiring Teachers must adhere to our code of conduct at all times. You can read it in full here and it can also be found on the ‘Training & Content’ section of your portal. Your Team Leaders will cover this Code of Content and other policies during your pre-Fellowship training and initial in-country orientation.

Safety is our highest priority. We have 24hr emergency support from an expert safety company, Pharos, and on-call support from our team.

Every Fellowship itinerary is thoroughly risk-assessed and as we work with local partners we have access to great in-country support too. A key part of your role as a Team Leader is to engage with risk assessments, policies, and procedures to minimize risk and ensure the safety of all Fellows.

We continually monitor updates and changes to government travel advice should there be any raised alerts relating to health or safety in a Fellowship location. Keeping safe is a two-way thing.

Alongside all of these measures we also ask all Team Leaders and Fellows to adhere to our Code Of Conduct, principally designed to help keep everyone safe.

Your role is broken down into a series of phases, from onboarding and building the team, to project/partnership management and team leadership in-country.

Throughout your role, you’ll be supported through each phase in a number of ways. You’ll be shared reading materials, template documents, and explainer videos to help you carry out your role. Handovers, regular check-in calls, and information and task lists in your portal will help to guide you through the process.

Your Program Manager will be in regular contact to organize check-in calls and set up ways of working as a team. If you feel under-supported at any point in your role, please reach out to us directly at support@inspiringteachers.org

Fellows will submit a pre-Fellowship Self Assessment (SAT) to measure their self-efficacy across their teaching experience. They will also complete a video-based e-Learn online before joining a team Webinar in the lead up to their Fellowship.

The purpose of the e-Learn is to accustom Fellows to education in a low-resource context and familiarise them with our curriculum and coaching materials so they’re ready to hit the ground running when they arrive in-country.

All the training modules can be accessed via the ‘Training & Content’ section in their portal. Fellows can complete all the activities in their own time and at their own pace.

By participating in an Inspiring Teachers Fellowship Fellows will receive a certificate recognising the completion of ‘120 hours Professional Development’.

This 120 hours is made up of the training they complete before you depart for the Fellowship, the time they spend conducting observations, planning for conference days, delivering workshops during the conference days, and providing feedback to the teachers they work with.

Many of our Fellows say it is the best professional development they have ever done, and a real highlight of their teaching career.

It’s quite common for Fellows to request their certificate, recognising completion of 120 hours Professional Development. Should a Fellow request a certificate to be sent to them, please advise them to submit their request in writing to info@inspiringteachers.org.

First of all, apologize on behalf of Inspiring Teachers for any inconvenience caused. If they’re experiencing technical issues, the best way to resolve them is for them to email support@inspiringteachers.org.

To help us identify and fix the problem quicker, please reference any error messages and/or attach any screenshots to your email as well as mentioning the browser that you are using.

Should you need to access information urgently, please contact your Team Leaders or Program Manager who will be able to access your details via our central system.

If you’ve forgotten your password, or you’re having trouble logging in to your portal, go to the Reset Password page. Enter the email address you use for Inspiring Teachers and click ‘Reset Password’. You’ll be emailed a link to reset your password.

If you know your current password, and you want to change it, click on your photo in the top right of your portal and go to ‘Account Settings’. There you’ll be able to enter your existing password and add a new password.

The process is exactly the same for Fellows should they ask you for help.