The name “School-to-School International” is based on the idea that linkages can help improve children’s learning. Education often considers “links” as connecting ideas to reality. For instance, if a teacher wants children to learn the word “goat,” does she write g-o-a-t on a blackboard or bring a goat into the classroom? When there are noRead more
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For the first time in three years, I was able to travel to our Whole Child Model implementation schools in Tanzania. My objective: to see if teachers who attended our trainings are able to apply the strategies we introduced.Read more
Next week, members of STS’s staff will join experts and colleagues online and in-person for 2022’s annual conference of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES). This year’s conference will focus on “Illuminating the Power of Idealism” and is being hosted in a hybrid format from April 18–22, 2022 with in-person sessions held in Minneapolis,Read more
In my last post, I explored how the well-intentioned question “how can I help” is often not the right question. Instead, international development should look to balance doing to or for with doing with. In today’s post, I want to share a recent example from our work with the Whole Child Model of how challengingRead more
In the “helping professions”—education, health, social services—our usual lead question is, in many ways, misleading. “How can I help?”Read more
In 1983, I served as a Peace Corps Volunteer teaching English in the Central African Public. Since then, I’ve had the pleasure of working in dozens of African countries, mostly in person. Whether visiting a country for several days or living there for several years, my experiences were richest when I worked side-by-side with myRead more
Last spring, USAID’s 2021 CLA Case Competition reviewed 80 qualifying case studies that explore ways USAID staff and partners use CLA approaches to achieve better development outcomes. This fall, they announced the winners and finalists.Read more
What does it take to educate a child? Worldwide, policymakers tend to have a similar answer. Build schools. Train teachers. Provide materials. Monitor performance.Read more
Limited access to proper care and information about menstruation— “period poverty”—deprives multitudes of girls around with the world of weeks of school each year. In Tanzania, period poverty is believed to be the single largest barrier to girls’ completion of education.1Read more