International Day of Education Resolution On January 24 - the International Day of Education - Reps. Grace Meng (D-NY), New York's senior Member of the House Appropriations Committee, Mike Quigley (D-IL), Founder and Co-Chair of the bipartisan International Basic Education Caucus, and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Co-Chair of the International Basic Education Caucus, introduced a bipartisan resolution reaffirming U.S. support for access to quality, inclusive public education for children and young people, especially girls, around the world. GCE-US worked closely with congressional staff, members, and partners to draft the resolution and conducted outreach to help secure 28 original cosponsors. | |
Member Spotlight: ChildFund In many countries, schools have struggled to ensure effective integration of key precursors to learning – namely, children’s safety, social-emotional learning and psycho-social well-being. ChildFund is addressing this by implementing the Education for Protection and Well-being (EPW) program in Uganda, Sierra Leone, The Gambia, Sri Lanka, Philippines, and Indonesia. The EPW program is a holistic, evidence-informed program that aims to improve children’s protection, learning, and well-being by strengthening child-adult relationships, enhancing social-emotional learning, reducing violence, and creating conducive and nurturing school and home environments. This model uses the school as the entry point to the community by offering skills-based training for teachers and caregivers and lessons on self-protection for children, among other things. Findings from the EPW program demonstrate improved social-emotional learning, classroom management practices, student attendance, caregiver engagement in education, teacher self-efficacy, and reduced corporal punishment.
To learn more, visit www.childfund.org or watch ChildFund's Director of Education, Janella Nelson, explain how ChildFund works to increase children's access to safe education worldwide, with a focus on their EPW program model. | |
