SCALING UP IN EDUCATION

The Education Working Group is made up of individuals from more than 40 donors, foundations, think tanks, research, and development organizations united by their interest in scaling the impact of education interventions to expand learning opportunities to all children and youth.

Areas of particular interest for the group include

  • unpacking implementation challenges related to scaling in education
  • the use of cost data and analysis to inform scaling decisions
  • challenges of equity and inclusion as relates to scaling
  • issues of sustainability and systems thinking.

Members of the Working Group include professionals with vast experience from the field, and the group explicitly tries to take advantage of opportunities to learn across sectors, while also exploring particular scaling drivers and pathways, such as government adoption, where experiences in the education sector can most contribute to broader lessons.

In addition to quarterly virtual meetings and potentially collaborating on written products such as blogs and other commentary, the Working Group encourages and supports exchanges among its members on a variety of subjects and is seeking innovative ways to elevate the voices of students, teachers, government officials, and others not typically involved in CoP activities to enrich our discussions. Like all CoP Working Groups, participation in, and management of, the Education Working Group is done on a purely voluntary basis.

Recent Posts

Designing for scale: A worksheet for developing a scaling strategy in education

Designing for scale: A worksheet for developing a scaling strategy in education

Suddenly, talk of scaling and systems change in education seems to be popping up everywhere—and for good reason. Progress toward key educational goals has stalled or even regressed, and education systems have been slow to adopt and integrate disruptive change. As it becomes increasingly clear that planning for scale differs in important ways from typical project planning and from the common five-year education sector plans, it begs the question of what a “scaling strategy” looks like and how best to ...
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Education Working Group Webinar: Translating Research to Practice - March 25, 2021

Education Working Group Webinar: Translating Research to Practice – March 25, 2021

Organizer: Jenny Perlman Robinson Moderator: Larry Cooley Presenter: Maud Seghers . This webinar focused on sharing a scalability checklist and user guide based on an existing resource developed by MSI and adapted to education through a process led by Belgian NGO VVOB.  VVOB provided an overview of contents of the new tool and discussed how it can be used to guide and plan for scaling. Additionally, key take-aways were shared on the process of adapting a generic scaling tool to the education ...
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Education Scalability Checklist

Education Scalability Checklist

Produced in collaboration with VVOB – education for development, the Brookings Center for Universal Education, Educate!, Pratham and STiR Education, the Education Scalability Checklist (ESC) and associated user’s guide adapts MSI’s Scalability Checklist to address the specific needs for scaling interventions in the education sector ...
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Can a Telenovela Help Kids Stay in School during COVID-19?

Can a Telenovela Help Kids Stay in School during COVID-19?

By Sergio De Marco and Barbara Sparrow A still from the telanovela “Decidiendo para un Futuro Mejor” (Choosing a Better Future). In late 2020, as part of Peru’s national mobilization for educational continuity during the COVID-19 pandemic, the country’s Ministry of Education started airing episodes of a telanovela “Decidiendo para un Futuro Mejor” (Choosing a Better Future), on national TV, embedded in the remote education lessons. But the telanovela was a little unusual—it was conceived and tested by researchers Oswaldo Molina, Christopher Neilson, and Francisco Gallego, ...
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Exciting Year for Education Working Group

Exciting Year for Education Working Group

Dear colleagues, We hope this email finds you well! We are reaching out to share plans for an exciting year ahead for the Scaling Community of Practice Education Working Group. Webinar Schedule and Themes The following topics will be collectively explored during 2021, building on the interests expressed by working group members, including from the survey administered during the working group meeting last October. We welcome any additional feedback or suggestions related to these or other proposed themes. Translating scaling ...
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The Education Scaling-Up Education Working Group: Report on a Meeting

The Education Scaling-Up Education Working Group: Report on a Meeting

The Education Working Group hosted a webinar on April 9, 2020, to discuss how members are continuing (or exploring how to continue) learning opportunities in the midst of the global COVID- 19 pandemic, and more specifically to: Discuss immediate and longer-term impacts of COVID-19 on children’s education. Share information about current education efforts underway in response to COVID-19 crisis and where the education community can learn from other efforts. Explore where the Education Working Group can contribute and add value, ...
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