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This guide is designed to provide teachers and parents with strategies to strengthen their teaching of children’s literature. By incorporating children’s books into your teaching and interaction with learners, you can engage them, foster a love for reading, and promote critical thinking and literacy skills. In this guide, you will find a variety of strategies and ideas to support your teaching of children’s literature and reading to children, including social and emotional learning (SEL), universal design for learning (UDL), teaching reading comprehension, text processing strategies, and vocabulary development. The guide is organized into three sections.

This report presents the findings of a survey conducted as part of the Uzbekistan Education for Excellence Program. The survey aimed to assess the adoption and use of new English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teaching and learning materials (Grades 1-11) in public schools throughout Uzbekistan during the 2022-2023 academic year. The evaluation focused on the implementation and adoption of the Cambridge series Guess What! and Prepare, as well as their impact on student learning, as perceived by teachers. An approach, involving qualitative and quantitative data analysis, was employed.

The Uzbekistan Education for Excellence Program (the Program), funded by the United States Agency for International Development, designed the teacher professional development (TPD) effectiveness study to assess the effectiveness of the Program’s TPD approach in terms of teachers’ satisfaction of learning events, their acquisition of knowledge and skills, their shift in self-efficacy, possible changes in teacher beliefs about new teaching approaches, and to what extent teachers received the necessary support at the administrative and school levels. The Program also used quality assurance data derived from the study to minimize dilution effects of the cascade approach and to inform and adapt the ongoing TPD activities as needed.

The Uzbekistan Education for Excellence Program (the Program), funded by the United States Agency for International Development, designed the Uzbek Language Arts (ULA) and Mathematics Teaching and Learning Material (TLM) Uptake Study to learn whether and how teachers and students in grades 2 and 4 are using the new teacher guides (TGs) and student textbooks (STBs). The Program used Phase 1 results and ensuing recommendations to inform the development and finalization of materials and ongoing teacher professional development (TPD) efforts. Phase 2 results served to determine whether teachers became more proficient over time in their application of the Student-Centered Strategies (SCSs) embedded in the TGs and STBs.

The Uzbekistan Education for Excellence Program (the Program), funded by the United States Agency for International Development, designed the Uzbek Language Arts (ULA) and Mathematics Teaching and Learning Material (TLM) Uptake Study to learn whether and how teachers and students in grades 2 and 4 are using the new materials. The Program used the Phase 1 results and ensuing recommendations to inform the development and finalization of materials and ongoing teacher professional development (TPD) efforts.

To evaluate the impact of the Program’s reading and mathematics components on student learning, this report will compare results from the endline assessment against the values from the baseline assessment. The baseline Early Grade Reading and Mathematics Assessments (EGRA and EGMA, respectively) were conducted in November and December 2021. The endline was administered in May 2023.