BETTER LEADERSHIP, BETTER SCHOOLS

The management of a school plays an essential role in ensuring the quality of the education the school provides. The projects provided a series of leadership and management training to head teachers.

Guidance was also given on how to make School Development Plans. This not only helped improve the quality of school management, but increased community involvement in the running of their schools, fostering relationships between the school, the community and the county education bureau. As a result more children were encouraged to go to school and provided with a better education when they got there.

Our original understanding of SDP was that it was a document to write on paper and stick up on the wall. This has changed to an understanding that it is a whole process, which includes the diagnosis of a school’s problems followed by the implementation of school plans and, in the end, improvements. The project aims to reduce poverty and increase equity. It worked by changing peoples’ minds instead of just giving people physical support. SDP was used as a vehicle to inspire new ideas. SDP helped head teachers and teachers to take ownership of their schools.