Executive Summary

Project Host:

Project Host: Inspiring Teachers

Fellows:

Ivy Kesewaa Nkrumah, Research Fellow
Jeanine Grütter, Research Fellow
Sabrina Nagel, Team Lead, Social Entrepreneur Fellow
Rudolph Ampofo, Social Entrepreneur Fellow

Introduction

Inspiring Teachers is a globally recognised nonprofit organisation committed to empowering educators, especially within low-resource contexts. Its core program Tools for Foundational Learning Improvement, combines integrated structured pedagogy with technology to to enable data-driven teacher support and adaptive program management. This program has two components, an instructional leadership program based on peer coaching and a foundational literacy program.

The Inspiring Reading programme provides structured pedagogy and assessments for foundational literacy (Basic 1-3) to teachers in Ghana. The programme consists of user-friendly lesson guides, integrated student workbooks, and the SmartCoach app, which supports School Leaders and Teachers in running in-school coaching programmes and getting real-time insights on teaching via dashboards, enabling prioritisation and progress tracking, making targeted support and adaptive management possible.

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Need summary

The Inspiring Teachers team aimed to ensure their teacher-led 1-1 reading assessment data collection methods generated information that was both valid and reliable in preparation for an upcoming Randomised Control Trial (RCT) study. They also wanted to explore ways to make their work in Ghana more sustainable and deeply aligned with Ghana’s Ministry of Education long-term priorities.

Solution summary & next steps

Following a few discovery sessions with the Inspiring Teachers team and reviewing their organisational objectives, we suggested the following:

Deliverable 1: Research and Measurement Guide
Deliverable 2: Assessment Strategy
Deliverable 3: Analysis of User Feedback & Recommendations
Deliverable 4: Competitive Analysis
Deliverable 5: Future-Focused Roadmap

Table 1. Alignment of LEAP objectives to Inspiring Teachers goals and priorities.

Irrespective of the path Inspiring Teachers may choose to follow in the future, establishing a robust foundation of evidence is crucial to enable the organisation and the programme to thrive. As such, all deliverables are oriented towards growing their evidence base.