Page 23 - 2021 BHP Foundation Strategy And Impact Booklet

A Snapshot from Our Portfolio
Transforming education through
family engagement
Through this Project focused on family- Each year millions of dollars are spent
school collaboration, the Center for
Universal Education at Brookings aims
to help transform education to better
provide all young people with the
skills needed to thrive in work, life,
and citizenship in the 21st century.
One critical aspect is the need for
families and schools to develop a
shared understanding about what
a good quality education looks like,
as research indicates schools with
strong family engagement are ten times
more likely to improve student learning
outcomes. After interviews and surveys
with 25,000 parents, 6,000 teachers,
and 50 partners from around the world,
the Project published a playbook with
evidence-based strategies and other
hands-on tools that school leaders
and their partners can adapt in their
local contexts to leapfrog education
inequality.
Building a global evidence
ecosystem for teaching
on education research, yet the results
rarely find their way into classroom
practice where they can transform
teaching and learning and improve
attainment. The Education Endowment
Foundation (EEF) has been tackling
this issue in England for ten years,
supported by EEF’s Teaching and
Learning Toolkit – a free summary
of the best international evidence on
teaching for time-poor teachers and
senior leaders.
With 70% of secondary school leaders
in England using the Toolkit to inform
their decision-making, we saw the
opportunity to support EEF to test this
model internationally to increase the
volume, quality, and use of evidence
and so leading to better decisions in
schools and better learning outcomes
for students globally. Over the past
three years, EEF’s Teaching and
Learning Toolkit has become the
largest education evidence database
in the world and has been
contextualized and translated for
teachers in Latin America, Australia,
Spain, and the Middle East. More
recently, the Toolkit has been used in
Belgium and The Netherlands to inform
government and school spending
decisions in relation to COVID-19
education recovery.
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Leadership and global learning
for community impact
Since 2018, our global partnership
with Teach For All is building the
capacity of community leaders
to enhance local educational
opportunities.
Throughout the COVID-19 crisis,
this global community of teachers,
educators and leaders has helped
ensure children in communities
hardest hit by the pandemic are
safe and continuing to learn through
documenting and sharing more
than 50 examples of transformative
initiatives to sustain learning at the
community level in a COVID-19 world.
At a global level, more than 1,000
teachers leveraged WhatsApp groups
to self-organize into the Teaching
Without Internet Alliance sharing
stories, strategies, and resources.
In Nigeria, a teacher reached
millions of students via a program
of lessons delivered online and
through television. In Pakistan, a
teacher created a learning program
delivered via SMS, WhatsApp and
physical learning packages. To
enable this, the teacher mobilized a
network of neighbors, shopkeepers
and community leaders to support
students by lending phones or serving
as a central ‘pick up’ location.
Teach For All, Nigeria