Lovely to see children supported by USAID
Jifunze Uelewe enjoying reading on #WorldBookDay ! (If you were, like me, disappointed that Nasreen closed the book before she told us the Swahili for octopus .. it's pweza) 😀

Excited to celebrate 🎉 #WorldBookDay . USAID Jifunze Uelewe (Learn to Understand ) Project is empowering communities through education & literacy. 📚🌎✨Let’s encourage young children to read.
RTI International USAIDEducation US Embassy Tanzania Wizara ya Elimu Tanzania

Can #SEL programs reduce inequalities in literacy and numeracy outcomes? I'm presenting 2 studies to help address this question. Today - 2:45pm 3rd floor Perason 2 #CIES2024 RTI International Development Julianne Norman mobarak hossain

📣We're hiring 2 exciting senior positions at the What Works Hub for Global Education Blavatnik School of Government University of Oxford Apply by March 25th:
➡ Programme Director
➡ Senior Policy Manager bsg.ox.ac.uk/workforus
FCDO Research Gates Foundation Global Education Evidence Advisory Panel (GEEAP) World Bank Education UNICEF Innocenti

Girls out-perform boys before school-age in language and socioemotional skills

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What a great job!!! Pleased to see the measurement of curiosity is a thing. sparklab.stanford.edu/magic

Episode 1 of our 'Skills for Young Lives Podcast' is all about social & emotional skills in the Global South.

Tune in here shorturl.at/owAGV to find out more.

RTI International Development Matthew Jukes in conversation with Frau Prof. Dr. Catherine Porter on culture, change & what policies & progs help.

Two key points - there is a systematic way to think about how SEL should be adapted to culture, and the evidence is growing that SEL is important for academic achievement

Delighted to kick off the Young Lives podcast series with a discussion of social & emotional skills, education and culture RTI International Development

📢Delighted to announce that our new Skills for Young Lives Podcast is out!

Episode 1 is a deep dive into social & emotional skills & gender in the Global South with Matthew Jukes & Frau Prof. Dr. Catherine Porter

Listen here: shorturl.at/hoF79

Look out for Ep 2 next week

Echidna Giving

Our new paper is out showing persistence and growth of effects of an early grade literacy program in South Africa after 7 years! Read Jacobus Cilliers’s summary ⬇️⬇️ or the full paper here: cgdev.org/blog/long-term…

Excited to share my new article with Heddy Lahmann, PhD alongside these other important articles and scholars. We find that #adolescents in #EiE contexts need age and gender responsive #SEL . Read on to learn more!

📊New paper out in Soc. of Education! Nicolas Hübner, Isabel Raabe & I look at the role of socio-emotional skills in educational inequality. Full paper (open access): journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…, summary ⬇️1/n

Learning effects don't always fade out!

New results 4 years after the end of a program from Jonathan Stern Matthew Jukes Jacobus Cilliers Brahm_Fleisch Stephen Taylor and Mpumi Mohohlwane

cgdev.org/blog/long-term…

Breaking news! We have a new working paper out on the long-run impacts of a foundational literacy program implemented in South Africa.

tl;dr: There is persistence in the literacy skills targeted by the program, emergence of new skills, faster grade progression.

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Anyone got a #bluesky handle I can follow?

Matthew Jukes.bsky.social - that's me

Catherine (Kate) Jere Development UEA 🌍 Evaluating the provision of flexible learning for children at risk of primary school dropout in #Malawi
Matthew Jukes Catherine (Kate) Jere
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Great to see the excellent #SouthAfrica - Western Cape Grade R Maths program highlighted in the briefs on Numeracy Scale. Check out the study in the link below

Come listen to the latest on #SEL measurement in this great panel tomorrow. I will be presenting on the role of SEL in educational inequality using data from the #Kenya #Tusome endline. Registration link below. RTI International Development FHI 360 Teach For All

Join us on October 24 at 9am EST! We’re excited to learn from FHI 360, RTI International, and Teach For All at our upcoming webinar: “Lessons and New Directions in Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) Measurement”

Learn more & register here: bit.ly/3RFHvm3

#SEL #education #MEL