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Few orga­ni­za­tions have been able to recruit such high-quality peo­ple into an orga­ni­za­tion, track their progress, then objec­tively eval­u­ate their per­for­mance to deter­mine who the best are. Teach For Amer­ica is one of these organizations.

I think the qual­i­ties that make a teacher excel­lent in the class­room trans­late very well to the startup world. There is a huge amount of auton­omy in the class­room of an urban or rural school. Set these for­mer teach­ers loose at a startup and they’d be unstop­pable forces.

Teach For Amer­ica uses the Teach­ing As Lead­er­ship frame­work as guid­ance for what excel­lent teach­ers do in the class­room.  It seems a nat­ural exten­sion, then, to apply this Teach­ing As Lead­er­ship frame­work to star­tups. You’ll see a ‘Frame­work for Star­tups’ in the next few weeks, tak­ing the most rel­e­vant pieces of TAL and fit­ting it into a new frame­work social entre­pre­neurs and tech­nol­ogy star­tups alike can use to pro­vide direc­tion to their efforts.