Inside Out Learning

There are many initiatives to build brick and mortar schools in the developing world, but there is more to providing a good education than just building a school.  A $10,000 was awarded to Inside Out Learning, an organization which seeks to improve educational experiences and outcomes for the children of Kenya through a teacher training program which emphasizes inquiry-based, active and collaborative learning. The grant was used in 2011 to run two 5-day and four 4-day training sessions for 425 primary school teachers in the Margarini Districts of Kenya.  The 5-day sessions first trained 78 teachers in the IOL methodology, and then these teachers trained the other 347 teachers in the 4-day sessions.  These teachers in the 34 schools are major influence in the lives of their 24,000 students each year.   (www.iolinternational.org)