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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

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

How We Treat One Another

By STS | STS Blog | 0 comment | 1 August, 2019 | 10

Dear STS Supporters: For many in the U.S., 2018 was a year marked by questions about how we treat one another and the planet. At School-to-School International (STS), it was an opportunity to work with our colleagues in developing countries whose challenges are not so different from our own.Read more

A New School for Kabata, Guinea

By STS | STS Blog | 1 comment | 10 May, 2018 | 6

This spring, School-to-School International and the Alcoa Foundation transformed a temporary school into an established structure in Kabata, Guinea.Read more

Whole Child Model Spotlight: A Holistic Approach to Girls’ Education

By STS | STS Blog | 0 comment | 14 December, 2017 | 3

In 2016, we published A Holistic Approach to Girls’ Education, thanks to support from the United Nations Girls’ Education Initiative. The case study captured our innovative efforts to help girls and inspired us to do more, including inviting Guinean women to share their career stories so girls could broaden their professional interests. Our girls’ educationRead 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

Improving Lives through Girls’ Education

By STS | STS Blog | 0 comment | 11 October, 2017 | 4

Although the links between girls’ education and improved quality of life and economic growth are well known, school-age girls in Guinea continue to face conditions that limit school success—from systemic impediments, such as shortages of qualified teachers, to cultural factors, like the practice of early marriage. As a result, many female students leave school beforeRead more

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