Why we need to recruit and retain outstanding classroom leaders
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Teacher Ewesit at a mobile school in Kenya
Samantha Williams鶹APPs hopes were not high as she travelled to Ethiopia for the launch of the Education For All Global Monitoring Report.
As a director of development for Teach For All who works with emerging social entrepreneurs addressing educational inequity in Africa, she knew better than most that millions of children do not go to school 鶹APP and millions more are in classrooms but learning very little.
But she admitted: 鶹APPDespite all that has been 鶹APPknown鶹APP, the grim findings of the Global Monitoring Report shocked me deeply. The quantitative data was far more alarming than I鶹APPd anticipated.鶹APP
Among the findings from the UNESCO report that surprised Samantha was the revelation that 250 million children will not learn basic literacy and numeracy 鶹APP despite the majority of them attending school.
When she returned from Addis Ababa, she wrote a thought-provoking blog in which she said: 鶹APPThere is a crisis out there that extends far beyond access, and it is painfully clear that meaningful access still eludes far too many children across the globe.鶹APP
Samantha is Director of Growth, Strategy and Development 鶹APP Africa for Teach For All, a global network of independent social enterprises working to expand educational opportunity in their countries by recruiting and developing talented future leaders to help transform classrooms, schools, and entire systems.
She believes the GMR鶹APPs key finding 鶹APP that the most critical factor is better trained, strategically placed and meaningfully retained teachers 鶹APP echoes the vision of Teach For All.
She wrote: 鶹APPIt resonated deeply with me as I reflected on my work here in Africa.鶹APP
You can , including her conclusions that we need a 鶹APPglobal effort to recruit and retain outstanding classroom leaders鶹APP.
The GMR launch on January 29 was also attended by Chernor Bah, Youth Engagement Coordinator at A World at School and Chair of the Youth Advocacy Group. You can
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