Learning from All Children Reading Technical Briefs

The world has been facing a global learning crisis since even before the COVID-19 pandemic triggered widespread learning loss. In response, many countries are enacting reforms to improve foundational skills like reading, which require multiple coherent education system components that tightly align with learning and use cost-effective approaches to achieve and sustain outcomes at national scale.
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Testing an Approach to Distance Professional Development in Senegal

To respond to a variety of needs — from COVID-19 disruptions to the adoption of new and diverse instructional approaches — the Lecture Pour Tous program piloted an approach to increase sustainable access to continued professional development.
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Early Grade Reading Achievement and Context in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Findings and Recommendations

This Technical Brief describes the challenges of access to education faced by Congolese early grade students. It covers the issues of the quality of education, the solutions implemented by the ACCELERE! project to help address the challenges identified, the lessons learned from the project, and the recommendations for future programming.
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Book Supply Chain in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

This technical brief presents recommendations for future implementers on keys to a successful teaching and learning materials supply chain in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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Low-Cost Private Schools in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

The USAID- and UK Aid-funded ACCELERE!1 project addresses the emergence and challenges facing Low-Cost Private Schools (LCPS) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). LCPS are key partners in and improving student outcomes.
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Keeping Vulnerable Children in School – Evidence of a Successful Community Savings Model

This technical brief describes how ACCELERE!1 used microfinance income-generating activities and community savings groups to help parents secure a more sustainable future for their children through education in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
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Improving the Application and Use of Climate Information: Three Lessons from Behavioral Psychology

An analysis of how stakeholders make decisions that include ambiguous climate-relevant information, with an attempt to articulate the application of such information in a rapidly changing policy context. By inserting behavioral psychology principles, this study examines effective means of applying that climate information for better decision making.
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Gender Sensitive Policies in Education Programming

This technical brief provides an analysis of how country context and existing policies have proven to be key to creating responsive gender programming throughout Chemonics education projects.
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Teaching Learning Circles

Teacher Learning Circles are small teacher communities, in Georgia, that learn from and support one another, with the ultimate aim of improving student learning outcomes. The groups reflect on current teaching practices and seek ways to enhance their instructional effectiveness.
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Reading, Thinking, Learning: Using Read-Alouds for Comprehensive Literacy Instruction

To encourage a culture of reading in classrooms, the USAID Pakistan Sindh Reading Program used the “reading is thinking” approach, which embeds elements of critical thinking into weekly read-alouds.
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