STIR Education

As #STiRturns10, watch this video from our stakeholders, teachers and children showing their support for our work:

We are pleased to announce that Corina Gardner, CEO of IDP Foundation, will be joining us as a panellist for our webinar "From Intervention to Amplification"! 📅 Date: Thursday, 21 November 2024 🕛 Time: 1200-1400 GMT Get ready to dive into thought-provoking discussions on amplifying impactful interventions in education! Don’t miss the opportunity to engage with sector leaders driving change. 🔗 Register Now: https://lnkd.in/gDmBf8Tt #EducationForChange #AmplifyImpact #STIREducation #IDPFoundation Corina Gardner IDP Foundation, Inc.

Join us at STIR Education for this exciting and insightful webinar on 21 November.

STiR Education collaborated with key education NGOs through the Education Advocacy Network to shape a memorandum on the National Teachers Bill. On October 15, the network presented its recommendations to Uganda’s Parliament, amplifying teachers' voices. Read more: https://lnkd.in/g-XtVVVJ #EducationAdvocacy #TeacherDevelopment #STiREducation #PolicyMatters #Teachers Save the Children Uganda Forum For African Women Educationalists (FAWE) Uganda Chapter Oxfam in Uganda Uwezo Uganda Education Advocacy Network EAN

We are excited to invite you to STiR Education's webinar, "From Intervention to Amplification," on Thursday, 21 November, 1200-1400 GMT!  Join us to learn how we are evolving our approach to support teachers and students worldwide. We'll explore our new amplification strategy and discuss the role of Global North NGOs in driving impactful local interventions.  Register now to be part of this insightful conversation: https://lnkd.in/gKsAKveU #EducationForAll #Amplification #Webinar #STiREducation

We're delighted to be working with The Ministry of Education and Sports in Uganda for a further 5 years. https://lnkd.in/eB_TXSxg

Teacher voice matters. Teacher beliefs matter. But do we really understand why? In this excellent blog, Luis Benveniste and Benjamin Piper make the case for the role of teacher voice in fostering meaningful pedagogical change in the classroom. Why is this so important? The very nature of teaching provides an answer. Teaching requires 'adaptive expertise'. This means that teachers have to use their professional judgement to decide how to meet the needs of the learners in front of them. The precise dynamics of these needs across 15, 30 or 100 children will vary infinitely. Teachers' decision-making can therefore not be pre-defined. Teachers will only consistently engage in this demanding endeavour if they care. That is why we need to look beyond technocratic approaches to behaviour change. We must think about how to foster motivation. https://lnkd.in/eFWNqwrm John McIntosh Jenny Willmott Nancy Clark Shruti Singh Mark Butcher Jobin Thomas Neha Gehlot MODERN KAREMA MUSIIMENTA, MBA Yoni Nurdiansyah Resiana R. Jane Nantayi Sebuyungo

Our team were thrilled to receive a Certificate of Appreciation from the Government of Uganda for "outstanding support and contribution to the Education sector in promoting Education for lasting peace" What an honour, not just for our team but for the whole STiR Education ecosystem in Uganda.

How do we enact deep change in education? A thought-provoking article from Brad Olsen, Molly Curtiss Wyss and Maya Elliott at The Brookings Institution argues that we need to think holistically and learn to marry often disparate frameworks - in this case scaling for impact and systems transformation. As the authors rightly remind us, we must think ecosystemically: 'the gears of each part will always engage with and move other parts: they do not move independently.' There are not many who would dispute the underpinning theory here. The difficulty is in the practice. Different actors in the system are not rewarded for the performance of the whole, but for improving a discrete set of outcomes that can somehow be traced back to their own efforts. At times, that incentivises outright competition rather than collaboration. We've been doing a lot of soul-searching on this at STIR Education. We've been thinking long and hard about what we can do differently to ensure that we are part of the solution when it comes to deep change in education. As per our values, we certainly don't have all the answers upfront, but we have some thoughts that we'll be sharing in the coming weeks and months. Watch this space... https://lnkd.in/ecDVQVGu