Returning to Learning During Crises: Decision-making and Planning Tools for Education Leaders

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Key Information

This toolkit is for USAID Mission staff and their partner national and local education officials, implementing partners, and administrators and educators of education institutions. It helps education planners plan and make key decisions on the return to learning during and after education disruptions caused by crises, such as COVID-19, in a way that is equitable, inclusive, and builds the resilience of education systems.

Lead Implementing Organization(s)
Location(s)

Global

Activity URL

https://www.edu-links.org/resources/returning-learning-during-crises-decision-making-and-planning-tools-education-leaders

Government Affiliation
Unknown
Years

2020 - 2020

Partner(s)

Not applicable or unknown

Ministry Affiliation
N/A
Funder(s)

Not applicable or unknown

COVID-19 Response
New for COVID-19
Geographic Scope
Global / regional
Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  
Unknown
Areas of Work Back to Top
Education areas
Attainment
  • Primary completion
  • Primary enrollment
  • Primary to secondary transition
  • Secondary completion
  • Secondary Enrollment
Other skills
  • Life skills/sexuality education
  • Rights/empowerment education
Quality
  • Curricula/lesson plans
  • School facilities
  • School quality
  • Teacher training
Skills
  • Literacy
  • Numeracy
Cross-cutting areas
  • COVID-19 Response
  • Emergencies and protracted crises
  • Gender equality
  • WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene)
Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Boys (both in school and out of school), Community leaders, Girls (both in school and out of school), Parent-teacher associations/school management committees, School administrators, Teachers - female, Teachers - male, Youth

Age

Not applicable or unknown

School Enrolment Status

Some in school

School Level

  • Lower primary
  • Upper primary
  • Lower secondary
  • Upper secondary
  • Vocational
  • Tertiary
Other populations reached

Not applicable or unknown

Participants include

Not applicable or unknown

Program Approaches Back to Top
Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization
  • Community-based monitoring (e.g. school report cards)
  • School management committees
  • Technical assistance/capacity building to civil society organizations or governments
Curriculum/learning
  • Remedial education/skills
Educational Technology
  • Digital devices for the purposes of studying, learning
Health and childcare services
  • Providing childcare for young mothers
  • School-based clinics
Other
  • Informational interventions (e.g. returns to education)
  • Other activities to address/end violence (not captured above)
  • Other activities to end child marriage (not captured above)
  • Other activities to end FGM (not captured above)
School-related gender-based violence
  • Support in and around schools (e.g. peer counseling, adult-to-student counseling)
Social/gender norms change
  • Engaging parents/caregivers of students or school-age children/adolescents
  • Work with community leaders
Teaching
  • In-service teacher training – pedagogy general
  • Teacher incentives
  • Teaching materials (e.g. lesson plans, curricula)
Tutoring/strengthening academic skills
  • Literacy - in the classroom
  • Numeracy - in the classroom
  • STEM - in the classroom
  • Tutoring - general

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Program Goals Back to Top
Education goals
  • Improved academic skills (literacy and numeracy)
  • Increased grade attainment
  • Increased school completion (general)
  • Increased school enrolment (general)
  • Increased test scores
  • Reduced absenteeism
  • Reduced grade repetition
Cross-cutting goals

Not applicable or unknown

Additional Information Back to Top
Primary Contact
Bethany Johnson
United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
Senior Gender and Policy Advisor, Office of Education
bjohnson@dexisonline.com