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The fire Helping children

guardians reach their potential

The 10 Deserts span one-third of Australia are rich When more than 80 per cent of a child’s learning takes
in unique plant and animal life and home to many of place outside of the classroom, the community’s role in
Australia’s threatened animals. To help keep Australia’s developing and educating a child is critically important.
outback healthy and deliver outcomes for Indigenous Teach For All, with funding from the BHP Foundation, has
communities, the 10 Deserts project is establishing the embarked on a global program to accelerate community-
world’s largest Indigenous-led conservation network. led approaches to learning. In November 2018, Teach
Underpinning the project is a focus on Aboriginal For All launched The Global Learning Lab for Community
cultural and ecological knowledge and an explicit Impact, bringing together community leaders, teachers
endorsement of Indigenous Australians as the best and other key partners to share practices and lessons
caretakers of the desert. Given the central role of that have led to improved quality learning outcomes
fire in traditional land management practices and for young people. With a focus on the role of community
the destructive potential of fires in central Australia, participation and leadership, the Community Impact Lab
the project is helping Indigenous groups develop will support a network of local leaders who are informed
their own fire management strategies, creating by global insights and working collaboratively to provide
new ranger jobs and extending opportunities to their children with the education, support and opportunity
Indigenous women and men to manage country. to shape a better future.

Using evidence to improve Mongolia hosts a
student outcomes in Jordan Hackathon for inequality

Each year, millions of dollars is spent on education In Mongolia, the International Finance Corporation is
research yet the results rarely find their way into the working with innovative organizations to make natural
classroom where they could transform student learning. resource data easier to analyze and use to help solve world
The Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) aims to development challenges. At a Hackathon for Inequality,
bridge this gap between research and practice, equipping more than 100 participants worked in 12 teams to
teachers with the knowledge they need to improve student develop insights and infographics on topics including
outcomes. In 2019, with BHP Foundation support, the EEF education, women in decision-making natural resource
established a partnership with the Queen Rania Foundation revenue. The project established a multi-stakeholder
in Jordan, where crisis after crisis has impacted the quality dialogue platform at the national level to discuss
of education. The partnership will see the translation natural resource data challenges, supporting improved
of the EEF’s Teaching and Learning Toolkit, an accessible information flow and a fact-based public dialogue
summary of the best international evidence on teaching, on the resources sector in Mongolia.
used by more than two-thirds of teachers in English
schools, into Arabic for teachers in Jordan and the wider
region. In a country where 94 per cent of second graders
are not meeting international literacy standards, starting
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with educational ‘best bets’ will give teachers a head
start in transforming outcomes for their students.

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