School of St. Jude, Tanzania, East Africa

From 2005 to 2008, CTL  developed and facilitated customized school-wide professional development for the School of St. Jude in Tanzania, East Africa. St. Jude has been in operation since 2001 and serves more than 500 of the country’s poorest children in grades one through six. The school plans to add an additional grade each year, and to construct new facilities as needed until it graduates its first high school class.

CTL staff worked both on-site at the school and through distance technologies, taking a two-pronged approach with administrators and teachers to enable the school’s administrators to develop organizational standards and processes that support continuous improvement through distributed leadership and accountability, and to make it possible for teachers to support improved classroom instruction integrating African and western practices. This work was supported by the Helen and Gordon Smith Foundation.