Tuksie Nkwinti has taught for over twenty years. A former principal of LEAP, she now co-manages the Champion Teachers Program which serves in-service teachers from Limpopo and East London. Tell us about your upbringing and how you entered the teaching profession. I was born in Salem, which is the farm between Port Elizabeth and Grahamstown. My […]
Archive | July, 2016
The leadership shift we need in teaching: a conversation with Marguerite Callaway
Marguerite Callaway is Chief Executive Officer of the Callaway Leadership Institute, an international leadership development company whose mission is to help current and aspiring leaders reach their full potential. She is also a founding member of the GTI. Ms. Callaway’s life’s work has been to understand the conditions that foster leadership effectiveness and organizational success. In […]
Meet our 2016 Teaching Fellows!
In partnership with Teach with Africa, the GTI would like to introduce our 2016 teaching fellows. Our fellowship program identifies high- impact teachers and educational leaders in the US and places them in our partner schools in South Africa for a short residency. The fellowship program aims to facilitate an authentic platform for fellows and their […]
This year, celebrate Mandela Day with the GTI at Canal Walk!
Every 18th of July, South Africa asks its citizens to spend 67 minutes of their day helping others in honour of Madiba’s 67 years of active service to our nation. This year, the GTI is partnering with LEAP Science and Maths Schools, the Hyprop Foundation and Canal Walk Shopping Centre in Cape Town in a service event […]