About Us – Involve

Reimagining Education

Transforming Public Schools in India So Students Experience Agency

Our Journey

2016

Pilot of Peer Teaching program conducted in Delhi (inspired by the work done with Avanti Fellows)

2018

Involve gets registered and starts working full-time to improve school models. First successful projects run in Chennai, impacting 640 students.

2019

Involve (with the support of Mantra4Change) starts operations in Bangalore, taking our impact to 1,390 students.

2020-21

Pandemic-era online programs reach 8,900 students around Bangalore and Chennai.

2022

We strengthened our Bangalore presence by gaining block-level permission to work in Anekal, reaching 30 government schools. In parallel, we initiated a partnership with Parivaar in Madhya Pradesh to improve learning outcomes for students in one of India’s most underserved regions.

Our reach increased to 10,000+ students

2023

Involve scales.

Partnering with governments

Involve launches REACH (Reimagining Education for Agency in Children), working at the district level in Sambhal and Bhagalpur. The shift: from implementing programs to embedding peer learning inside state systems, training ARPs, BRPs, and teachers at scale.

Our reach extends to 2 lakh+ students~2000 teachers

2024

Widening reach, deepening impact

1 million students. Six states. Rigorous evidence.

Involve crosses 1 million students across Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Punjab, Chhattisgarh, and Assam. A large-scale RCT with Columbia and Harvard researchers launches in Bhagalpur.

2025

The peer teaching program is cited in the Economic Survey 2025.

2030

The goal

10 million students with agency in their classrooms

Scaling through government partnerships, open-sourced toolkits, and The Agency Collective, a national network of organisations designing student-led spaces.

Our Values

Be
Audacious

We challenge the status quo, think boldly, and embrace ambitious ideas.

By taking thoughtful risks and pursuing innovation, we strive to create lasting impact at scale.

Our willingness to dream big and push boundaries inspires creativity, drives progress, and opens new possibilities for the future.

Ownership

We take responsibility for our work and our outcomes, acting with initiative and accountability.

When we own a challenge end to end, we move faster, learn deeper, and deliver with integrity.

Commitment
to quality

We hold ourselves to a high bar in everything we build, refusing to settle for “good enough”.

Care, rigour and attention to detail shape work that students and partners can rely on.

Integrity

We do the right thing, especially when no one is watching.

Honesty, transparency and trust guide every decision and every relationship.

Act with
Care

We lead with empathy — for students, for teachers, and for one another.

Kindness and respect shape how we work and the spaces we help create.

Our Team

A 60+ member team from diverse backgrounds and institutions, including Teach For India, Tata Institute, Gandhi Fellowship, and others, united by a common belief: students thrive when they are given the right environment, exposure, and opportunities to experience agency in their learning spaces.