One strategy to consider would be connecting with Teach First somehow.
My two years of teaching was with Teach For Australia, an organisation related to Teach First, and I had the impression that Teach For Australia āAssociatesā would be, on average, far more predisposed to EA-type ideas than the average person. This is due to things like them typically being fairly privileged, ambitious, impact-oriented, idealistic, and interested in evidence. (Also, three of the five other TFA teachers with me in my school were quite interested in the SHIC-style, EA-related club I ran, and planned to carry it forward after I left.) Iād guess similar things are true of Teach First teachers/āalumni.
So maybe Teach First would represent a good pool of people who could help implement the sort of strategies you suggest. This is perhaps especially true as Iād many Teach First people aim for and get into leadership roles and roles where they can influence systems change.
Two more potential advantages of connecting with Teach First for this:
This could perhaps reduce the potential reputational risks to EA. This is because this could involve EA influence this stuff partly indirectly, via Teach First, rather than EA being very visibly involved itself.
Teach First teachers/āalumni themselves are probably good people to have in/āfeeling positive towards the EA movement, as they may be in good positions to spread EA ideas to their students or networks, and many may end up with decent earnings (many Teach For Australia people come from high-paid jobs and some go back into them later). So giving them something cool-seeming an EA-aligned to do could be good movement-building in itself.
But this is just an idea. I think there are some EAs who were in Teach First or know more about it, so it could be worth trying to find and talk to them about this idea.
One strategy to consider would be connecting with Teach First somehow.
My two years of teaching was with Teach For Australia, an organisation related to Teach First, and I had the impression that Teach For Australia āAssociatesā would be, on average, far more predisposed to EA-type ideas than the average person. This is due to things like them typically being fairly privileged, ambitious, impact-oriented, idealistic, and interested in evidence. (Also, three of the five other TFA teachers with me in my school were quite interested in the SHIC-style, EA-related club I ran, and planned to carry it forward after I left.) Iād guess similar things are true of Teach First teachers/āalumni.
So maybe Teach First would represent a good pool of people who could help implement the sort of strategies you suggest. This is perhaps especially true as Iād many Teach First people aim for and get into leadership roles and roles where they can influence systems change.
Two more potential advantages of connecting with Teach First for this:
This could perhaps reduce the potential reputational risks to EA. This is because this could involve EA influence this stuff partly indirectly, via Teach First, rather than EA being very visibly involved itself.
Teach First teachers/āalumni themselves are probably good people to have in/āfeeling positive towards the EA movement, as they may be in good positions to spread EA ideas to their students or networks, and many may end up with decent earnings (many Teach For Australia people come from high-paid jobs and some go back into them later). So giving them something cool-seeming an EA-aligned to do could be good movement-building in itself.
But this is just an idea. I think there are some EAs who were in Teach First or know more about it, so it could be worth trying to find and talk to them about this idea.
Thanks for this, sounds very promising. I may reach out to some Teach First people when Iāve had a bit more time to reflect on feedback.
I would like to know more about studying overseas consultants. Can you help me with it?