We document and disseminate various results, trainings, and resources from our research, programs, and projects.
This technical brief highlights World Education’s introduction of thin client labs to classrooms in Cambodia. The thin client lab is a new system with many self-contained computers run off of one central processing unit (CPU). Thin clients are compact and self-contained with few moving parts, which cuts down on computer hardware costs, makes classroom management…
This policy brief focuses on World Education’s Student-Centered Active Learning and Teaching (SCALT) methodologies for teachers in Jordan. SCALT is a progressive teaching approach that facilitates students’ critical thinking, problem solving, analytic inquiry, team work, and project-based learning skills. It also provides students with 21st century knowledge and skills. World Education and Jordan’s National Center…
Though teachers are not trained as therapists, nor should they assume that role, they often serve as trusted, caring brokers for students to a new, bewildering culture. They create classrooms that mitigate isolation, display respect, and offer care. But in recent years, the prioritization of measurable outcomes from funders and the labor-intensive documentation that accompanies…
Designed for youth leaders, teachers, and facilitators who work with youth under the ConnectEd Program, this guide is for people who are able to meet regularly with a class or group and have time and support to implement an in-depth project. The guide is presented in such a way that neither facilitators nor youth will…
In Nepal, Girls' and Womens' Education Policy Research Activity (GWE-PRA) investigated the impact of women’s integrated literacy programs on the country’s development by examining measures of socio-economic status, as well as indicators of women’s social and economic development, including: 1) literacy and education, 2) children's education, 3) family and reproductive health, 4) participation in income-earning…
Building on extensive experience in girls' education and women's empowerment and the ability to mobilize grassroots initiatives, World Education implemented the Ambassadors' Girls' Scholarship Program (AGSP) from 2004-2011 in 13 West African countries, including: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo. This booklet highlights some…
Mentoring provides the 'bridge' that enables people to use their skills, background and commitment to reach youth and communities most in need. This guide to mentoring youth is designed for mentors in the ConnectEd mentoring program-but can used by various mentoring programs. This guide is organized in three parts. Part one, Becoming a Mentor, will…
Are you looking for ways to explore social justice themes while building skills and addressing immediate student goals? Here's a resource that will help you bring popular education and social analysis into the contemporary adult education classroom. Through the Lens of Social Justice is a collection that celebrates The Change Agent's first 10 years of…
Thinking about how to integrate all the election-year buzz into your classroom? Wondering how to invite students into a conversation about civic participation that includes voting but goes beyond it as well? In this issue of The Change Agent you'll find lessons that evoke deep thinking about the meaning of democracy and the many ways…
This issue of The Change Agent explores the many ways that students support each other to stay in school, how they work together to find personal and collective solutions, and how they inspire, motivate, and encourage each other to balance a multitude of demands so that they can stay in school. This issue is now…
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