Learning

When students return to education, they may feel fear or anxiety regarding the pandemic. Educators will need to deploy existing skills in new ways and/or develop new skills to overcome such adversity and continue to thrive.

As education actors scramble during and post COVID-19 to reimagine teaching and learning beyond the classroom, here are six important lessons we can learn from Zanzibar’s distance learning efforts.

Before we move into 2020, we wanted to take a look back at what education looked like in 2019.

More than 263 million children are out of school around the world, oftentimes due to poverty and conflict. In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), as in many other countries, Accelerated Education Programs are becoming a more common approach.

While some youth report struggling in leadership roles due to a perceived lack of experience, SafePlan Uganda and KCEO are showing that programs led by youth are successful not in spite of their leadership but because of it.

USAID visited two Young Women Transform Prize grant recipients to gain insight into what methods produced the best outcomes and collect lessons learned about how other organizations might incorporate youth-led approaches in their program design.

Why does USAID use a Positive Youth Development approach, and how can education practitioners integrate PYD into their programs?

The 2018 Education Policy recognizes the important role social and emotional learning and soft skills play in predicting the long-term success of children and youth. The brand new USAID Education Policy Brief aims to support USAID staff in this work.