Education
Early Childhood Education Summer Camp
The GC-DWC's early childhood education summer camp in Haiti, utilizes play based learning as an instrument to transform the classroom and school culture into a fun and safe environment for children to learn.
Be Well Teach Well: A Locally Defined and Participatory Approach to Measuring Teacher Well-being
A GC-DWC led research-practice consortium which embarked on a two-year study to better understand Ugandan primary school teachers’ perspective on well-being and the factors that support and hinder it.
Measuring What Matters: Michael Ward
Outline of WCD within the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Framework and the importance of furthering SDG Target 4.7: sustainable development and global citizenship.
Measuring What Matters: Helyn Kim
A reflection on the importance of equipping children with 21st century skills and how to approach identifying which skills and how to teach them.
Measuring What Matters: Ramya Vivekanandan
An overview of the challenges of supporting equitable education in developing countries.
Measuring What Matters: John Mugo
Overview of the historic importance of TVET in Kenya, as well as the importance of anticipating the skills needs of youth and the challenges to supporting quality provision.
Measuring What Matters: Kanthi Krishnamurthy
Overview of the interventions led by Dream a Dream and the importance of policy advocacy in India.
Measuring What Matters: Julian Marino
A reflection on the different ways to enhance the use of performance assessment, particularly around producing reliable measures.
Measuring What Matters: Vyjayanthi Sankar
A summary of how to create standardized assessments that are useful for teachers.
Community Resource Centers (Systems Activation Spotlight)
In partnership with local communities, the GC-DWC has established solar-powered community resource centers that include digital and non-digital Haitian language learning material. These resource centers are community owned and managed, providing a continuous opportunity for learning and development.
Measuring What Matters: Anasthasie Liberiste-Osirus
An overview of the learning context in Haiti & the importance of combining literacy and social and emotional skill development.
Haiti Radio Programs
Recognizing radio as the most democratic and effective means of disseminating learning materials in Haiti during COVID-19, the Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE) Haiti and the Global Center for the Development of the Whole Child at the University of Notre Dame, in collaboration with Catholic Relief Services Haiti (CRS) and the Episcopal Commission for Catholic Education (CEEC), created three radio programs - a literacy program supplemented with a reading hour program, and a pre-K social and emotional learning (SEL) and parent engagement program - as part of a comprehensive approach to distance learning in a low-tech environment.
Strong Beginnings Radio Program
What parents are saying about the radio program:
"This is the best education support that can help students during this time." - Wana Mercier
"The program’s presenters create a good learning atmosphere. The comprehension worksheets [...] help reinforce the lessons covered on the radio program. Not only does [the program] help the students but also us parents. We have learned a lot about establishing strong relationships with our children especially if we want them to become independent." - Zéphir Naromie
"Many of our neighborhood kids come to listen to the program every morning. Thanks to this radio program, I have a better rapport with my students." - Mme François M.
Classroom Resources
Sèk Matine - Morning Meeting
Sèk Matine, or "Morning Meeting," is an SEL-curriculum designed for 1st and 2nd grade Haitian classrooms. Available in Haitian Creole, the guide provides 16 weeks of scripted, 15-20 minute sessions for teachers to use at the beginning of the day to get their students engaged and excited for the day ahead. Activities include call-and-response, singing, dancing, and so much more!
SEL Children's Books
Explore our series of children's books developed from the Vision of a Haitian Child, SEL framework. These SEL books not only cover topics present in the SEL framework but also have comprehension questions, a leveled reader's theatre as well as strategies students can use to deal with whatever topic the book addresses.
Read Haiti Curriculum
M ap li nèt ale and Je parle bien français are scripted curriculums for Grades 1 and 2 that meet international standards for evidenced-based best practices in literacy instruction. They are designed specifically for Haiti's development context and to meet the educational needs of Haitian children. They are approved by Haiti's Ministry of National Education and Vocational Training (Ministère de l'Éducation Nationale, et de la Formation Professionnelle).
Ayiti Li Kreyol Assessment
The Ayiti Li Kreyol (ALiK) assessment evaluates the reading performance of students based on vocabulary knowledge, reading comprehension, phonemic awareness, word recognition, and reading fluency. The assessment includes small to long paragraphs with accompanying comprehension questions.
Access the Assessment Download the Explainer Guide
Storybooks Haiti
Additionally, access a complete collection of children's books available in Haitian Creole and developed in partnership with Storybooks Haiti. The collection includes stories of traditional animal fables as well as stories of contemporary city life. Stories cover a variety of topics from responsibility to gender equality.
Teaching Resources
Sèk Matine - Morning Meeting
Sèk Matine, or "Morning Meeting," is an SEL-curriculum designed for 1st and 2nd grade Haitian classrooms. Available in Haitian Creole, the guide provides 16 weeks of scripted, 15-20 minute sessions for teachers to use at the beginning of the day to get their students engaged and excited for the day ahead. Activities include call-and-response, singing, dancing, and so much more!
Teacher Guide and Videos
Our teacher handbook and accompanying videos serve as one example of a technical guide for how teachers can focus on SEL in the classroom.
Access the videos Download the Complete Guide
Ayiti Li Kreyol Assessment
The Ayiti Li Kreyol (ALiK) assessment evaluates the reading performance of students based on vocabulary knowledge, reading comprehension, phonemic awareness, word recognition, and reading fluency. The assessment includes small to long paragraphs with accompanying comprehension questions.
Access the Assessment Download the Explainer Guide
Reading Comprehension Strategies and Tools for Teachers of MTB-MLE Classrooms
This guide was designed by the Reading Comprehension Interest Group for teachers, teacher trainers, and education project staff to know how to support children to develop reading comprehension skills in contexts where more than one language is spoken and/or taught in schools and communities. Mother Tongue-based Multilingual Education (MTB-MLE) is a term used to refer to contexts where children’s Mother Tongue, or first language, is used as a resource in classrooms to help build children’s understanding in that language as well as in other languages. Check-out the attribution page for more information on the creators!
Parenting Resources
SEL Parent Workshop Guide
This guide provides a blueprint for organizing and leading a six-session SEL parent workshop. Session topics include the importance of the parent-child relationship; social and emotional development; brain development; well-being and self-care; providing continuous love and care; and self-regulation and positive discipline.
Parenting Videos
A parent is a child's first teacher. These videos, produced in Haitian Creole, recognize the importance of this role and equip parents with tools to help their children succeed.
Baptism Preparation Resources
The connections between theology and science are truly beautiful. Our Baptism Guide for parish priests marries the science of healthy childhood development with our theological understanding of God’s love for all children. During Baptism preparation classes, parish priests distribute our Parenting for Success in the First 1,000 Days handouts to parents and caregivers. These handouts, contextualized for the Haitian context, review tips and strategies to support parents and caregivers during their child's first 1,000 days and beyond! Topics covered: 1) Nutrition, 2) Parenting for Success, and 3) School Readiness.
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“I always tell my children to learn from me”: Parental engagement in social and emotional learning in Malawi (2022), International Journal of Educational Research
Jeongmin Lee*
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Early literacy skill development and motivation in the low-income context of Haiti (2022), International Journal of Educational Research
Monica J.Kowalski, Andrew J.Elliot, Juan CarlosGuzman, and Kate Schuenke-Lucien*
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"I can teach what’s in the book”: Understanding the why and how behind teachers’ implementation of a social‐emotional learning (SEL) focused curriculum in rural Malawi (2021), British Journal of Educational Psychology
Lee, J.*, and Simmons Zuilkowski, S.
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Literacy environments: K-12 and Adult. In F. Maggino (Ed.) (2021) Encyclopedia of quality of life and well-being research. Springer, Cham. Easton, P. and Lee, J.*
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Developing and Validating the International Social and Emotional Learning Assessment: Evidence from a Pilot Test with Syrian Refugee Children in Iraq (December 2021), Journal on Education in Emergencies
Nikhit D'Sa*, and Allyson Krupar
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Leveraging community-based innovations during COVID-19 to strengthen the Haitian school system (March 2021), Perspectives in Education
Neil Boothby*, Anna Hart*, Hannah Chandler*, and Dominique Dupuy
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What’s faith got to do with it? A scoping study on local faith communities supporting child development and learning (January 2021), International Journal of Educational Development
T.J. D'Agostino, Nikhit D'Sa*, and Neil Boothby*
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Organising primary grade literacy environments in Mozambique (July 2020), Learning Environments Research
Jeongmin Lee*, Stephanie Simmons Zuilkowski, and Nikhit D’Sa*
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Integrating new knowledge into everyday practices: teacher pedagogy in early grade literacy in rural Mozambique (March 2020), Literacy
Jeongmin Lee*, Nikhit D'sa*, and Stephanie Simmons Zuilkowski
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Improving Reading Instruction and Students’ Reading Skills in the Early Grades: Evidence From a Randomized Evaluation in Haiti (2020), Reading Research Quarterly
Juan Carlos Guzmán, Kate Schuenke-Lucien*, Anthony J. D’Agostino, Mark Berends, and Andrew J. Elliot
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Monitoring and reporting attacks on education in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Somalia (August 2017), Disasters
Cyril Bennouna, Elburg van Boetzelaer, Lina Rojas, Kinyera Richard, Gang Karume, Marius Nshombo, Leslie Roberts, and Neil Boothby*
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