Meet the Semi-Finalists
Impact at Scale Labs 1: Scaling Innovations for Learning Recovery
Collaborative School Network
Countries: Nepal
Innovation Name: LEAP
Innovation: The LEAP innovation uses lesson plans to transform teaching and learning in Nepal’s public schools.
Organisation: Collaborative Schools Network manage public schools in Nepal to transform the quality of education they provide to some of the country’s poorest children.
Impact: Currently 13,000 students use the workbook. On average, students in CSN schools achieved 13% higher test scores than students in non-CSN schools. This is from a 2019 Early Grade Maths assessment for 300 students in CSN schools and 300 students in comparison schools.
Ektara
Countries: India
Innovation Name: Ek Tara Remedial Program
Innovation: This innovation is a remedial program offering blended learning, differentiated classrooms, and performance analysis.
Organisation: Ektara works with children and women from impoverished families with a vision to provide high-quality holistic education to enable community transformation. Their education projects aim to meet all academic, co-curricular and overall development of children, right from 3-18 years.
Impact: Close to 400 learners at our Ek Tara Learning Centre from grade 2 to 7. Through 4 months of the remedial programme, the percentage of learners scoring above 50% increased in: English (from 64% to 92% learners), Maths (51% to 85%) and Science (from 44% to 90%).
Impact Network
Countries: Zambia
Innovation Name: Read Smart
Innovation: The Read Smart innovation is a mouth-chart phonics program to teach early literacy. It is based on eSchool 360, a holistic education program centred on empowering teachers with tablets, activity-based lessons, teacher support, and weekly coaching.
Organisation: Impact Network provides wraparound eLearning support to teachers maximize the potential benefits of eLearning in the most remote, under-served areas of Africa.
Impact: In 2022, we are implementing across 8 schools, reaching over 900 students across Zambia, the proportion of first grade students at “desirable” or “outstanding” levels was 75% at the pilot schools compared with 32-35% of students nationally. This is from assessment data from the USAID-funded Let’s Read Zambia project.
Instill Education
Countries: Ghana, Kenya, South Africa
Innovation Name: Upskill
Innovation: The Upskill innovation is a digital teacher professional development programme.
Organisation: Instil Education supports educators and aspiring teachers wherever they are in their education journey, by providing them with lifelong support and development to help them realise both their personal and professional goals.
Impact: As of March 2022, there have been 7647 users on the Upskill platform Upskill has an average NPS of 56, while almost 1/3 users fully complete modules with a submission
Justice Rising & Street Child
Countries: Cameroon, DRC
Innovation Name: Chalkboard Guides
Innovation: The Chalkboard Guides innovation are structured teaching guides for conflict areas.
Organisation: Justice Rising exists to transform war zones through education, providing quality education to children at risk by building schools, training teacher leaders, and developing community programs.
Organisation: StreetChild works with local organisations in low resource environments and emergencies, to support children to be safe, in school, and learning in the long term.
Impact: From Feb 2021 to Feb 2022, Chalkboard Guides were conceptualised, created, and used for the first time in 6 classrooms with 379 children and 6 teachers in the Democratic Republic of Congo; in Feb 2022, Chalkboard Guides were launched in 3 classrooms with 160 children and 3 teachers in Cameroon. Across three phases of prototyping, Chalkboard Guides were stated as being adoptable and intuitive, and shown to have significant impact on teaching and learning
Kizazi, Simple Education Foundation, Teach For Armenia
Countries: Armenia, India
Innovation: This innovation is an in-house service for teacher development and coaching.
Organisation: The Simple Education Foundation aims to transform teaching and learning practices inside India’s government Schools, through a whole School Transformation model to empower key stakeholders to lead the change they envision for their school communities Teach for Armenia aims to cultivate a new movement of leadership, by providing Teacher-Leaders with a deep understanding of educational inequity while equipping them with the knowledge, skills, and insight to drive system-wide change. Kizazi is an intermediary organisation that supports local education leaders to design and implement breakthrough school models appropriate to local needs through partnerships between NGOs and government.
Impact: The innovation is currently being implemented in 6 government primary schools in Delhi, India and 3 government schools in Tavush, Armenia. From a 2021 third-party evaluation of SEF’s interventions including the teacher development approach: 71% of parents discuss homework and after school child patterns with teachers, 95% of teachers are aware of different teaching-learning materials, and all teachers received feedback from the principal.
Peepul
Countries: India
Innovation Name: CM Rise
Innovation: The CM Rise innovation is a tech-based holistic development teacher training programme.
Organisation: Peepul work with government providers and other non-profits providers to raise expectations of the education system and bring about a marked improvement in the quality of education delivered in government schools.
Impact: 265,000+ schoolteachers across Madhya Pradesh have enrolled in 47 digital teacher training courses rolled out so far. In the time since launch (since May 2020 till December 2021), engagement has been high with 85%+ course completion rates.
Rangeet
Innovation Name: Rangeet
Innovation: This is a tech-based innovation that focuses on developing social and emotional learning (SEL).
Organisation: Rangeet is an app featuring a play-based, measurable Social Emotional and Ecological Knowledge (SEEK) curriculum created for schools, families, and communities to promote wellbeing and development of children anywhere.
Impact: 25,000 students and 1500 facilitators engaged. Among students, correct answers improved by 25-30% in endline and baseline tests, while among facilitators 90% reported an enriched pedagogy
Rising Academies Network
Countries: Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ghana
Innovation Name: FasterReading
Innovation: The FasterReading innovation is a catch-up reading programme based on teacher guides and student materials; it is partly tech-based.
Organisation: Rising Academies is a school network that aims to create schools that open doors and change lives. It serves 50,000 students across more than 160 schools in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Ghana.
Impact: 15,000 students are currently engaged in FasterReading in Rising Academies schools. In Ghana, the percentage of students showing mastery in skills from the two lower levels of FasterReading increased from 39% to 58%, from data collected during a 4-week pilot in 2021. In Sierra Leone, the percentage of students who had mastered skills at the two lower levels of FasterReading almost doubled from 21% to 38% during the pilot period.