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GSF member LEAD shares their experience of supporting schools in India’s huge Affordable Private School sector to harness technology in the classroom.

GSF is delighted to be partnering with Education Development Trust on a new piece of research that will explore the impact of Covid-19 on the non-state education sector in LMICs. In this commentary, originally posted as an EDT Commentary, EDT’s Anna Riggall and Michael Latham, and GSF’s Joel Mullan, introduce the research.

GSF’s role, in part, is to foster learning experiences between and among members which will ultimately help and strengthen their efforts. To that end, GSF piloted a Peer Review process, with the ultimate goal of replicating the process across the GSF membership.

The pandemic has negatively affected the learning and well-being of 95% of school children across the world, exacerbating the learning crisis that already existed in many parts of the world. Many children will now never reach expected levels for literacy, mathematics and socio-emotional skills, and many will not return to school. The worst affected are lower income households and vulnerable groups, including girls and children in rural locations.

As GSF becomes an independent charity our Chief Executive Officer Aashti Zaidi Hai reflects on what we’ve learnt from our first 4 years as a network organisation.

Global Schools Forum (GSF), in partnership with Dignitas, recently concluded a learning series on supporting the evolving needs of teachers. Through this series, aimed at identifying key challenges faced by teachers as schools reopen, we focused on the critical linkages between teacher and student well-being and identified strategies that schools can adopt to support both groups. 

Bailey Thomson Blake, Chief of Schools at SPARK, invited peers from the GSF cohort to serve as critical friends and examine her organisation’s approach to support and develop Principals. In this post, she details her experience of hosting the pilot study.

Olanrewaju Oniyitan on her journey to rewrite the story of Nigerian education

Over the past 18 months, as Covid disrupted education across the world, we’ve seen the non-state sector step up and innovate to ensure that students have access to learning resources. As schools reopen, many non-state actors are embedding these innovations into their ongoing educational programmes, building more resilient and sustainable organisations.

Using iterative design to deliver foundational literacy and numeracy in emergency contexts

On 1 October, Global Schools Forum (GSF) became an independent registered charity, spinning out from Ark, the education charity that has incubated us since our foundation.

The Global Education Monitoring Report (GEMR) is THE big annual report in international education, submitted by a UNESCO-housed but editorially-independent team. Every year, the GEMR combines an annual update on progress against global education goals with a deeper-dive thematic focus. The 2021 report will have a thematic focus on non-state actors, and is therefore of high importance to GSF and to our members.