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Notes from the Field: What Strategies are Teachers Using

By Mark Lynd | STS Blog, Whole Child | 0 comment | 2 May, 2022 | 1

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

Our profession’s most misleading question – How can I help? (Part 2)

By Mark Lynd | STS Blog, Whole Child | 0 comment | 29 March, 2022 | 0

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

Our profession’s most misleading question – How can I help? (Part 1)

By Mark Lynd | STS Blog, Whole Child | 0 comment | 10 March, 2022 | 1

In the “helping professions”—education, health, social services—our usual lead question is, in many ways, misleading. “How can I help?”Read more

What Does it Take to Educate a Child?

By Mark Lynd | STS Blog, Whole Child | 0 comment | 22 December, 2021 | 12

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

Period Poverty and Education

By Mark Lynd | STS Blog, Whole Child | 0 comment | 7 December, 2021 | 11

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

Teaching – and Reaching – All Students in a Large Class

By Mark Lynd | STS Blog, Whole Child | 0 comment | 10 November, 2021 | 11

Imagine you’re teaching the letters of the alphabet to a class of first graders. Some students are learning quickly while others are struggling. Now, imagine that you’re teaching 60 students at a time. Or maybe 100, or even 180. Sound daunting? Teachers in Tanzania are faced with conditions like these every day.Read more

Announcing Our New Focus School

By STS | STS Blog, Whole Child | 0 comment | 1 May, 2021 | 10

School-to-School International (STS) is excited to announce a shift in Whole Child Model activities for the 2021 school year. In addition to continuing support of six schools in the Arusha District of Tanzania, STS has designated one school as our “focus school.” In 2021, STS’s Whole Child Model Focus School will be Engorika Primary School,Read more

Teacher Training in Tanzania

By STS | STS Blog, Whole Child | 0 comment | 26 December, 2019 | 2

Our aim is to help all children become proficient readers and mathematicians. One strategy we use is cluster-based training, where teachers from different schools come together to share experiences and acquire new skills.Read more

Travels in Tanzania

By STS | STS Blog, Whole Child | 7 comments | 19 September, 2019 | 2

by Mark Lynd, STS President and Co-founder   Setting off As I got off the plane in Arusha, Tanzania, questions were swirling in my head: Can the Whole Child Model (WCM) really work in Arusha? Will the lessons we learned working in Guinea for 16 years be applicable in a place as different as Tanzania?Read more

Why Tanzania?

By STS | STS Blog, Whole Child | 0 comment | 8 December, 2017 | 3

Dear STS Supporter, For the past few months, you have heard about STS’s expansion of the Whole Child Model to schools in the Arusha District of Tanzania. And while it’s easy to get caught up in the excitement of expansion—and indeed, I very much want you to be excited with us—you may also be wonderingRead more

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