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Impact at Scale Labs: Innovations for Learning Recovery

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Impact at Scale Labs - Innovations for Learning Recovery supported three grantee innovations that improved learning recovery post Covid-19 in India, Ghana and Kenya for evidence driven scale-up of their foundational literacy and numeracy (FLN) and early childhood education and development (ECED) programmes.

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Dignitas, LeadNow

Dignitas' LeadNow innovation is a tech tool to support remote coaching of school leaders and enhance school-based teacher development in Kenya. Dignitas kicked-off and completed A-B tests at the Impact at Scale Labs where they tested components of their innovation with about 900 school teachers in two counties. This testing approach has been integrated into their solution to allow them to continue to build impact. Dignitas was also supported to manage an organisational transition required to deliver paid solutions as a non-profit.

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Gyan Shala, Learning Quality Improvement programme

Gyan Shala's Learning Quality Improvement programme is a learning process school model for affordable private schools in India using available quality of teacher and financial resources. Gyan Shala replicated their model to over 50 low fee private schools by end of 2024, starting out at nil at the beginning of their Labs journey. 400 teachers participated in their programme in Q4 2024, and they found 88% of the teachers were using the worksheets and 68% followed the Gyan Shala's methodology as expected.

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Sabre Education, Transformational Teacher Training (TTT)

Sabre Education’s Transformational Teacher Training (TTT) programme aims to train kindergarten teachers in how to teach children through play in low-fee private schools across Ghana. Key achievements: After completing their pilot in low fee private schools through the Labs- which saw 47 schools, 69 teachers and 1,636 kindergarten children and - 80% of students achieved good learning outcomes (Numeracy, early reading, oral language, early writing and psychosocial skills). In September 2023, Sabre continued their work in the low fee private schools space where they enrolled 120 teachers into the programme and 50% of teachers completed the modules available to them.

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The Lab’s DVF framework has been very helpful in providing structure and planning for Sabre as we develop our work with low-fee private schools (LFPS) in Ghana. The DVF framework gives us a pathway to understand the market and viability in terms of low-fee private schools.
Susan Place-Everhart

CEO, Sabre Education

Gyan Shala solves the problem of poor learning outcomes by relying on the child’s own capacity to learn. Last year following a successful pilot on 1,000 students, we went on to triple that to 3,000 students. With the help of Global Schools Forum and Impact at Scale Labs, we intend to scale this up to more than 20,000 children and make the program self-sustaining over the next three years.
Chirantan Shah

CEO, Gyan Shala

Meet the Advisory Committee who advised grantees on big picture thinking
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Ian Attfield

Regional Education Adviser, Girls Education Challenge, South Asia.

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Dr Julie Bélanger

Director, Better Purpose

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Aman Bhaiya

Asst. Vice President & Program Head, SBI Foundation

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Kigen Chelimo

Principal at Open Capital Kenya

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Krista Davidson

Executive Director of Injini Africa's EdTech Accelerator & Think Tank

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Sonia Guerriero

Senior ECD & Education Specialist, UNESCO

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Dr Asyia Kazmi OBE

Global Education Policy Lead, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

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Nirav Khambhati

Managing Partner, Kaizenvest

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Prof Dr Stuart Kime

Co-founder and Director Of Education, Evidence Based Education

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Swati Kumari

Associate Principal, Sattva Consulting

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Ciku Mbugua

Kenya Country Lead and Innovation Manager, EdTech Hub

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Diana Mwai

Program Director, Social Impact Strategist, Partnerships and ESG enthusiast at Educate!

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Stephen Caleb Opuni

Country Director, IDP Foundation Ghana

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Maud Seghers

Global Strategic Education Advisor VVOB – education for development

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Meera Tendolkar

Director of Math Content & Training, Pratham Education Foundation

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Harmik Wilkho

Founding Partner, BecauseYOU

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Meet the Investment Committee who supported us select our grantees
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Aashti Zaidi Hai

Founder and CEO, Global Schools Forum
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Dr. Albert Dupigny

Senior Adviser, Ministry of Basic and Senior Secondary Education in Sierra Leone
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Cédrine Gisin

Associate Director, Philanthropic Programs, UBS Optimus Foundation

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Titise Kode

Head of Education, Vitol

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Audrey Pessot

Associate Impact Finance Compliance Officer, TRECC, Jacobs Foundation

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Noam Angrist

Executive Director, Youth Impact, Fellow, University of Oxford

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