This blog summarises reflections from Educators Shaping Futures, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. A Global Moment for Strengthening Teacher Support On November 3-4 in Addis Ababa, the Educators Shaping Futures event, co-hosted by the World Bank, Florida State University, the Ethiopian Ministry of Education, and UNESCO, was a global knowledge exchange aiming to raise awareness and build coalitions for change for stronger…
Why and how did we do this? This blog presents Part 1 of our lessons on tech-enabled professional development. We shall be bringing you more insights in Part 2. Stay tuned! Through Bangladesh’s national curriculum reform, the Government of Bangladesh intends to transform education by reducing the pressure of high-stakes exams and enhancing teaching practices (for example, through experiential learning,…
Learnings from our Sandbox Quality education requires a strong teaching workforce. And one of the most effective interventions in impacting learner achievement in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are teacher education programmes Evans & Popova (2015). To this end, the Teaching Service Commission (TSC) in Sierra Leone is planning to roll out a tech-supported teacher continuous professional development (TCPD) programme…
This is Part 1 of a six-part blog series inspired by discussions with partners working in the EdTech space who recognize they do not have the information they need to make informed decisions and recommendations. With that in mind, we put together a series summarising what we have learned so far in each of our focus areas: Data for Decisions,…
