Bridging Policy and Practice – The Link Between Intention and Empowerment

• In Event: Liberating Students Through Locally Led Efforts to Improve Early Grade Reading - Lessons from Nigeria

Proposal

Policies, practice and assessment are key technical components of LEARN’s systems strengthening approach. Ideally, these work together to create a functional, learning and improving system that serves the early readers well as the start to lifelong learning and productive, happy, and self-determined citizenship. A functioning system is easier spoken about than realized, however, and this summative portion of the paper will discuss unique challenges in bridging policies and practice, including a bleeding-edge overview of LEARN’s collaborative approach to addressing major systemic practice challenges.

Author

• Rebecca Jewell Stone, Creative Associates International