{"id":40617,"date":"2024-07-04T15:42:09","date_gmt":"2024-07-04T13:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jacobsfoundation.org\/?p=40617"},"modified":"2024-09-24T11:03:00","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T09:03:00","slug":"announcing-the-2024-klaus-j-jacobs-best-practice-prizes-finalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jacobsfoundation.org\/announcing-the-2024-klaus-j-jacobs-best-practice-prizes-finalists\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing the 2024 Klaus J. Jacobs Best Practice Prizes finalists"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The ten finalists have been announced for the <\/strong>Klaus J. Jacobs Best Practice Prizes<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 which acknowledge institutions or individuals who are working to implement evidence-based solutions to improve child development and learning in practice.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ten finalists have been shortlisted and the three winners are due to be announced ahead of the ceremony in November. Read on to learn more about the various organizations and their projects, from Ghana to Colombia, and Lebanon to Mexico.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Building Tomorrow: Uganda<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Building Tomorrow<\/strong><\/a> is a social impact organization focused on community-powered education in rural, underserved areas of Uganda with the vision of literacy and numeracy for all children. Through the support of Community Education Teams who facilitate sustainable literacy and numeracy programming, Building Tomorrow has delivered foundational learning to over 384,000 learners to date.<\/p>\n\n\n\r\n\r\n

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\r\n <\/span>Building Tomorrow is thrilled to be a Best Practice Prizes finalist and for the opportunity to share our community-powered literacy and numeracy work with the Jacobs Foundation\u2019s global audience. We hope this recognition can serve to spotlight the contributions of our evidence-backed Community Education Volunteers, who drive our work and ensure learning is accessible, inclusive, and sustained.<\/span> <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n
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Coschool: Colombia<\/strong><\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Coschool<\/strong><\/a> fosters social-emotional skills through EdTech and innovative pedagogy to foster positive learning environments, deliver high-quality education, and enhance well-being. Their platform Edumocion<\/a><\/strong> is the first platform of resources and activities for teachers in Latin America to improve and strengthen their students’ social, emotional, and mental skills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\r\n <\/span>Coschool is proud to be a leading EdTech organisation in Colombia in the area of character education, and social and emotional learning. We are committed to generating evidence to support our work and advance the field, with a particular focus on working closely with the public sector to scale our school leadership (PRIMED), teacher training (Edumoci\u00f3n), and student development approaches (Flori) to public schools across Colombia and the region.<\/span> <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n
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Fundaci\u00f3n Escuela Nueva (FEN): Colombia<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

FEN<\/a> <\/strong>has worked for 37 years in educational development in rural and underserved settings in Colombia, and abroad. By rethinking the learning process and promoting active, cooperative, and participatory learning, centered on the child, they have demonstrated improvements in educational quality, relevance, and efficiency, enabling equal opportunities for all children, regardless of their background, to flourish and develop their full potential.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\r\n <\/span>It is a great honor to be a finalist for the Klaus J. Jacobs Best Practice Prizes. This remarkable recognition highlights FEN’s dedication to improving the lives of children through a new educational paradigm based on cooperative, personalized, and participatory learning that is grounded in data and driven by a commitment to effectiveness and equity in education.<\/span> <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n
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Imagine Worldwide: Sub-Saharan Africa<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Imagine Worldwide<\/strong><\/a> currently work in 7 Sub-Saharan countries, namely Malawi, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Ghana, Senegal, Burkina Faso, and Liberia. They develop literacy and numeracy skills required for children around the globe to achieve their full potential. Working with governments, organizations, and communities, they provide technology-enabled learning that is accessible, affordable, and effective\u2014built upon in-depth research on foundational learning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\r\n <\/span>Over the next six years, Imagine\u2019s goal is to serve more than 10 million children in at least four countries, ultimately achieving three times the typical level of literacy and numeracy outcomes of national education systems in Africa (60% fluency by the age of 10, as opposed to 20%). This all while delivering the program at less than $5 per child per year. This requires us to be led by rigorous research and program monitoring in order to deliver data-driven outcomes. We are thrilled to have the Jacobs Foundation recognize our new Open Learning Architecture platform which will facilitate automated, high-quality data collection of individual analytic data in our tablet-based foundational literacy and numeracy programs.<\/span> <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n
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International Rescue Committee (IRC): Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and Iraq<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Ahlan Simsim<\/strong><\/a> (\u201cWelcome Sesame\u201d) is the single largest early childhood intervention in the history of humanitarian response. Launched through a partnership between the IRC<\/strong><\/a> and Sesame Workshop, Ahlan Simsim combines educational media with direct services for children and families, to support children affected by crisis and conflict to have the chance to learn, grow, and thrive. Their 11-week Remote Early Learning Programme (RELP)<\/strong><\/a> has produced child outcomes on par with a year of in-person preschool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\r\n <\/span>Over the last six years, Ahlan Simsim has shown profound impact by providing essential early childhood development to children affected by conflict and crisis in the MENA region. The IRC and Sesame Workshop\u2019s investment in rigorous, evidence-based practices combined with a spirit of creativity and innovation have been fundamental to this success. Impact evaluations led by NYU Global TIES for Children have demonstrated significant improvements in child learning and emotional well-being, underscoring the transformative power of our programs. We are honored that the Jacobs Foundation acknowledges our dedication and achievements.<\/span> <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n
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Laborat\u00f3rio de Educa\u00e7\u00e3o (LABEDU): Brazil<\/strong><\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n

LABEDU<\/strong><\/a> equips adults with the tools and knowledge required to champion equal opportunities for all children to reach their learning potential. By generating evidence from small-scale pilots to large interventions, LABEDU designs programs that make research-based practices teachable for educators at all levels. This allows teachers to plan innovative strategies that take into account student diversity, creating fair and high-quality learning environments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\r\n <\/span>The team at Laborat\u00f3rio de Educa\u00e7\u00e3o is deeply moved by the recognition that comes with being one of the finalists of the 2024 Klaus J. Jacobs Best Practice Prizes. This honor reflects our deep commitment to public education and our dedication to finding transformative, evidence-based ways forward in a country with immense potential and numerous learning challenges. With this recognition, we are more energized and convinced than ever to continue our focused work.<\/span> <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n
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Lebanese Alternative Learning: Lebanon<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Lebanese Alternative Learning (LAL)<\/strong><\/a> provides comprehensive, freely accessible digital programs aligned with the school curriculum, featuring innovative offline solutions to reach remote areas. Their learner-centered constructivist approach promotes self-directed learning, addressing the multifaceted challenges of Lebanon’s education sector, including economic and political instability, internal displacement, and infrastructural deficiencies, to provide quality education for all students and educators.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Lively Minds: Ghana and Uganda<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n

The Lively Minds<\/strong><\/a> program is getting quality early childhood care and education to more than 250,000 children in over 3,000 last-mile communities in Ghana and Uganda. At a low cost of just $14 per child, this government-run model untaps the potential of rural parents to provide better care and education for<\/strong> their children, using sustainable resources. It is proven to improve children\u2019s learning outcomes<\/strong> by the equivalent of an extra year of school, to decrease malnutrition, and to increase mothers\u2019 self-esteem and ability to care for their children. Lively Minds has developed a package of support for governments to enable them to deliver programs and strengthen existing systems and personnel. To date, the program is running successfully in one third of all rural communities in Ghana\u2013with a plan to expand nationwide\u2013and in every village in Uganda\u2019s Mayuge district.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\r\n <\/span>We are delighted to be recognised for our work by the Klaus J. Jacobs Best Practice Prizes. We have spent years working to develop scalable and sustainable ways to get quality ECD to the last mile communities who need it most. We are proud to now have a proven and community-run model that is delivered at scale through government. We are keen to share our learnings and approaches widely and are excited by the opportunities that the Prizes bring.<\/span> <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n
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University of Oxford and OxEd & Assessment: United Kingdom<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n

OxEd<\/strong><\/a>‘s mission is to translate research evidence into practical application by providing world-class assessments, interventions, and training, to improve educational outcomes for children, with a particular focus on children at risk of educational difficulties. By providing schools with a way of identifying early language difficulties, the Nuffield Early Language Intervention (NELI)<\/strong><\/a> Program improves children\u2019s behavior and language skills in the classroom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Universidad Veracruzana (UV) and Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropolog\u00eda Social (CIESAS): Mexico<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Universidad Veracruzana<\/strong><\/a> (UV) is a Public Higher Education Institution, and CIESAS is a decentralized public organization attached to the System of Public Research Centers of the Consejo Nacional de Humanidades, Ciencias y Tecnolog\u00edas (CONAHCyT) in Mexico. The Special Advocacy Program “Medici\u00f3n Independiente de Aprendizajes (MIA)<\/strong><\/a>\u201d, seeks to close foundational learning gaps (literacy, numeracy, and life skills) and reduce the educational gap in Latin America and the Caribbean through the implementation of evidence-based practices. MIA improves education by focusing its action-research work on the problem of foundational learning gaps, developing scientific evidence that has allowed us to build a model that involves diagnosis, intervention, and scaling up.<\/p>\n\n\n\r\n\r\n

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