Support Teachers to Educate 200 Children Monthly

Dear friends and partners,

I must apologize for missing out on sending the last two reports. Somehow, I momentarily lost the momentum, but thank you for staying on and continuing to support our project and the learners. Here are some quick updates on the project to support our teachers. Without them, education will not be the jewel casting brilliance into the future! And without you, we would struggle to help them shine the brighter. Thank you!

We have  12 awesome trained teaching staff, giving the school an enviable teacher-student ratio of 1:9. This has enabled us to support various programs within the school.
Our Reading program is one of these, with all the teachers involved. They are coordinated by two staff, 1 paid and another volunteering. Their work is amazing such that the parents love the progress they see with their children. 

Management has continued to provide ongoing teacher coaching and mentoring support. We have had various in-house staff training in April and August, upskilling teachers to deliver a competency-based curriculum. Staff attended two external training by Oxford University Press on the new curriculum targeting Junior Secondary School teachers and Lower Primary School teachers
Training on Managing Learning and Classroom Management. We also had volunteer support for teachers to help them with workload especially where learners need response-to-intervention.

Our support to the teaching staff is such that we changed the leadership structure to have three Section Heads to support learning at the Section level. The school has three main sections, Pre-School, Lower Primary, Middle School and Junior School Section

With this kind of support, we have experienced zero teaching staff turnover during the year. 100% of teachers who started the year are going to complete a school year with their students, having a positive impact on the relational mindset of teachers. This has seen the school student attendance for the whole year averaging 90%. Teachers have taken parental engagement in stride, inviting parents to spend time with their children in school, organising for academic days and keeping communication channels with parents open.
As we get ready for the 2025 school year we recruited a new Early Childhood Development teacher and are currently interviewing staff for Grade 9 for the 2025 school year.

Gaps & Challenges
Grade 9 requires two new staff at about $600 per month.
Transitioning to CBC requires a lot of staff development to help staff develop new mental models to help deliver a constructivist curriculum. This is important as all our teachers went through a direct-teaching schooling system.
Government taxes increased at the beginning of March last year. This reduced teachers' take-home remuneration as inflation remained high. Teachers need the extra support so they can have the peace to teach and touch the future. With your support we will continue to deliver quality education to the children we are called to serve, nurture, and care for.