INTED’s Story
Kwabena Ennin Amporful and Israel Titi Ofei first met in 1995 at SOS-Hermann Gmeiner International College in Tema, Greater Accra Region of Ghana. Kwabena was then a high school student, and Titi the Vice Principal of the same school.
They reconnected fourteen years later in 2009 when Kwabena returned to Ghana after his MBA studies at Stanford University to co-head Private Equity at Databank, then a boutique investment bank in Ghana. Kwabena often participated in various SOS-HGIC functions, including addressing SOS-HGIC students during Friday morning assembly programmes.
Upon aligning on the potential for teacher professional development to improve the low level of secondary student achievement across Ghana, Kwabena and Titi transformed their "student and teacher" into a “mentor and mentee” partnership to shape the early design and development of INTED. Over a number of Sunday afternoons in 2010, Titi guided Kwabena’s teacher professional development research, and ultimately, sowed the early seeds towards forming Institute of Teacher Education and Development.
Kwabena formed Institute of Teacher Education and Development in Ghana in 2011, thanks to the Social Innovation Fellowship of Stanford University that provided funding and 1-year support to start INTED. Titi and Kwabena worked closely to bring on advisors, partners, sponsors, volunteers, and our first team of Master Fellows to embark on the mission of INTED.
During 2015, with the help of INTED's advisors, Kwabena and Titi applied for and received the Skills Development Fund Grant, bringing COTVET on board as a major funding partner to continue to lay INTED's foundations, and help deepen the reach and impact of the budding organization. This seminal step in its development also helped INTED strengthen its core of trainers, or Master Fellows, and develop new programmes to more directly impact teachers and their heads in their schools.
Kwabena and Titi continue to support INTED’s team of administrators, Master Fellows, and stakeholders to design and deliver innovative curricula and programmes to teachers and heads across Ghana, in service of INTED's initial goal, to improve the quality of teaching and student outcomes across Ghana.
