Innovations in Teacher Professional Development from the Yemen Early Grade Reading Approach (YEGRA)

This report describes some of the challenges to teacher professional development for early grade reading during the first year (2012-2013) of YEGRA and how they were overcome through innovation leading to teacher motivation and change. As one of the first USAID-funded early grade reading programs in the Arab world, after Girls’ Improved Learning Outcomes (GILO) in Egypt, the authors hope that the lessons learned from their successes and challenges will inform future work in the region.