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What the External Evaluation Exams Are (Not) Telling Us

The external evaluation exams after 7th and 12th grade are still not measuring the competencies that the education system claims to be developing     Author: Neli Koleva, Head of Strategic Partnerships at Teach For Bulgaria For thousands of students across …

What Have We Learned in 10 Years?

One of the main values Teach For Bulgaria lives by from the very start is “continuous learning”. We believe that it is essential for any educational organization which claims to work towards making Bulgaria a better place. This is why …

Bulgarian Education Has to Move into a Higher Gear. Now.

This year’s Education and Training Monitor of the European Commission shows that the education reforms in Bulgaria are a step in the right direction, but they are moving at a very slow pace   The rate at which students and …

Why Being A Teacher Is One Of The Best Ways To Change The World

We give you a text about teachers’ invisible work towards a better world on World Teachers’ Day If you want to view paradise, simply look around and view it. Anything you want to, do it. Want to change the world? …

Ten years of maturity exams: it is time to change the discourse

State maturity examinations should no longer be just part of the statistics but a tool for the improvement of the quality of education.  Was the confidentiality of the examinations protected, did the last question “leak” on the internet, how many …

Боян Петров

Boyan Petrov and the power of the conquered peaks we have in common

The mountaineer, explorer, and true supporter of Teach for Bulgaria represents the inspiration and dedication our society often seems to need.  “What I would like us to work towards is helping people awaken. Most of them have gotten not exactly …

“We need to have clear expectations for what the role of a teacher is and more rigorous criteria for the people who go into teaching,” Evgenia Peeva

Teach for Bulgaria’s Chief Executive Officer presented “A New way for new talents in teaching” in Brussels. “Instead of defining how exactly teachers should be teaching or how they should be trained, we need to have clear expectations for what …