Partners and supporters

The American school improvement program Success for All was developed at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore in the 1980s. Since 1987, the Success for All Foundation has been operating the program and continuing its development. Several thousand schools have joined the program since its foundation more than three decades ago, enabling it to provide effective support to millions of disadvantaged children.

SFA is recognized as one of the world’s most thoroughly researched and evaluated comprehensive programs for school improvement. Many academic studies have proven its lasting positive effects.

Tutoring for All gUG was founded as a nonprofit organization in October 2020. It sponsors the development and implementation of the tutoring program.

Prof. Dr. Steffen Gailberger holds the Professorship of Literature and Literacy Education at the University of Wuppertal. He began his career as a teacher at lower secondary level before specializing in conceptual and empirical research into and support of disadvantaged children with low reading proficiency within the scope of his dissertation on the same topic. He works with the Leuphana summer academy, which prepares school students at lower secondary level for their first career steps, and holds the position of chief researcher of the Hamburg BiSS Association for primary schools.

Teach First Germany is a nonprofit initiative promoting equality of opportunity in the educational system. It places university graduates from any discipline at schools in deprived areas for two years, during which they assist with lessons and everyday school life. In particular, they support pupils during the transition between different school types and during the final stages of their school education. Teach First Germany is part of the international network Teach for All.

Tutoring for All is supported by a group of experts, which includes Siegfried Arnz (school principal and the former head of department of the Berlin school authorities), Michael Knoll (head of fundamental political issues at the VKBI Association of Berlin Merchants and Industrialists), Prof. Dr. Elmar Souvignier (University of Münster), Dr. Michael Voges (former state councilor for the Hamburg school authorities) and Sybille Volkholz (former Berlin school minister).