The expansion of ADA will work on critical success factors for future scale up, such as: training of trainers; evaluation; adaptation of the methodology to multigrade schools, reduction of unit costs, etc.
The expansion of ADA will work on critical success factors for future scale up, such as: training of trainers; evaluation; adaptation of the methodology to multigrade schools, reduction of unit costs, etc.
Name of Project:
ADA, a Scaleable Model for Teacher Professional Development
What will it do?
Based on a strategic seminar facilitated last July by CALI Founding member, Roberto Artavia, and the ADA Board, ADA will expand its professional development program over the next 18 months, from 1 to 4 sites in the country, to prove the scale-ability of the underlying model. Seed funding and political protaganism for the expansion will come from corporate collaborators that already have acceptance and effective social platforms in the chosen communities. Through its expansion ADA will work on critical success factors for future scale up, such as: training of trainers; evaluation; adaptation of the methodology to multigrade schools, reduction of unit costs, etc.
Who/what will it benefit and how?
Direct beneficiaries will include 200 teachers and an estimated 4200 children annually in over 30 schools.
The major benefits of the expansion are long term, through sharing what works with real teachers and children to improve educational opportunities, translatable to multiple programs and countries within the region. For example, program lessons and models are now being directly leveraged by ADA collaborators in Chile and El Salvador, NGOs are collaborating with the Governments in each country to build national programs for teacher professional development at the level of preschool.
How will it be implemented?
The current ADA program will be expanded to 3 new regions wholly funded by new private sector stakeholders in each region (Turrialba: Hacienda Juan Vinas; Guanacaste: EcoDesarrollo Papagayo; Desamparados: AED) and implemented by new ADA hires.
What is your role?
Negotiating and communicating with multiple stakeholders to finance, operate and monitor the expanded program.
How it will be measured?
Through documenting teacher change based on standardized observation protocols (ADA and control teachers) and student outcome measurement on a battery of reading assessments, in each of 4 different regions.
Does it meet the criteria for projects laid out in the project descriptor?
All 10 of them !
Why is this project worthy of CALI?
Improving the quality of basic public education is an urgent need for Latin America. This project contributes to developing the know-how in the critical area of teacher professional development, a key factor to improving educational outcomes in the region.