Kalamu WhatsApp teacher bot

Angaza Elimu

Kalamu WhatsApp teacher bot

Kalamu WhatsApp teacher chatbot powered by GenAI advances practical and structured pedagogical support to teachers for enhanced FLN outcomes.

Nairobi, Kenya

KEN

For-profit, including B-Corp or similar models

Foundational literacy and numeracy outcomes are on the decline with 9/10 and 8/10 of children unable to meet minimum proficiency levels in literacy and numeracy respectively by the end of primary school. The following factors contribute heavily to the decline of the learning outcomes: - Limited Teacher Training & Support: Teachers lacked structured lesson plans, making classroom instruction inconsistent. - Ineffective Classroom Supervision & Monitoring: No real-time feedback mechanism for teachers to improve their instruction. - Teachers' overall well being including mental health and financial stability is not well taken care of. On average teachers spend 8 minutes on actual instruction in a 40 minute lesson.

To improve learning we must improve teaching. Angaza Elimu is an edtech company implementing Kalamu WhatsApp teacher chatbot tool that provides AI driven structured pedagogical support to improve effective and targeted instruction, promoting teaching at the right level framework and continuous in service professional development with a focus on equipping teachers with the right practices of teaching, particularly with online tools to improve teaching outcomes. Kalamu aims to improve instruction time from 8 minutes to 35 minutes in a lesson by supporting teachers so that they can have the highest impact in the classroom through: - Structured lesson guides to enhance instruction - Learner progress insight and interventions - Expanded instructional support and coaching

Angaza Elimu currently serves grade 1-3 learners and teachers in 523 Kenyan public primary schools as direct beneficiaries. 95% of the schools are located in rural areas with a particular focus on low income localities, ASAL regions and the refugee camps. Learner's reach is 367538 and 4409 teachers. Kalamu Whatsapp chatbot has proved to be an effective low tech high impact tool providing teachers with instant pedagogical support to improve effective and targeted instruction. We help teachers decide the next best instruction move rather than just provide additional "noise". We have managed to help teachers utilize all the 35 minutes in a lesson effectively. Kalamu is an effective tool to facilitate learner teacher engagement inside and outside of the school room with measurable improvements in student performance over the course of its usage. Currently 82k+ learners learners have managed to improve on their academic performance by 32% with major improvements on Math and English subjects.