Teaching and Learning

Learning to read is a critical foundational skill in the early grades. The Government of Uganda in partnership with the Literacy Achievement and Retention Activity funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is working to improve early grade reading.

Access to books is key to learning to read and sustaining a love of reading. Yet many low- and middle-income countries struggle to provide their students with reading materials of sufficient quality and quantity.

It is difficult to imagine an effective teacher who does not have mastery of the content nor command of the pedagogical skills needed to teach literacy. Yet many teachers, particularly in low- and middle-income countries, lack these very skills.

NORC at the University of Chicago is conducting a quasi- experimental impact evaluation of the NEGRP.

Programs to promote social and emotional learning (SEL) risk making assumptions about the global relevance of core competences. Because scholarship is lacking about SEL in many parts of the world, new approaches are needed to contextualize the goals of SEL programs in a realistic time frame.

The central role that the school and classroom environment or ‘school climate’ plays in social and emotional learning (SEL) is well documented, albeit mostly from US-based studies.

The primary objective of the study is to evaluate the success of the Journeys intervention in improving school climate; shifting gender attitudes toward more gender equality; strengthening student’s SEL; and reducing the prevalence and extent that pupils experience bullying, corporal punishment, and

This document is intended for program and curriculum experts interested in implementing evidence-based early grade mathematics programs.

Action pack/brief from National Learning Symposium on Creating a Safe and Positive Learning Environment held in Kampala, Uganda on September 19 - 20, 2019.

Briefer describing the Results of the Social and Behavior Change Communication Campaign in Uganda to Eliminate Corporal Punishment in Schools.