Young children need engaging, inclusive, and developmentally appropriate early learning experiences, supported by educators with the skills and confidence to help them succeed.
Yet millions of children miss out on high-quality early childhood education. Even where provision exists, many systems face challenges in fully supporting language development, early literacy and numeracy, wellbeing, and school readiness.
Every child should have a strong foundation through high-quality, inclusive early childhood education.
We want all children to develop the literacy, numeracy, language, social, and emotional skills that underpin lifelong learning. By strengthening early learning experiences and supporting effective transitions into primary education, we help create the conditions for children to thrive.
Through technical assistance, programme delivery and system strengthening, we help governments and partners to:
early years educators supported in England through the Department for Education’s Early Years Professional Development Programme.
pre-primary teachers and 600 headteachers and early childhood centre managers have received training through the INSPIRED programme in Kenya, with early classroom observations showing improvements in child-centred pedagogy and inclusive practice.
of supporting early literacy, language development and school readiness in Brunei. By strengthening teaching practice and supporting educators, we help young children build the foundations for lifelong learning.
In Zimbabwe, we’ve helped scale the roll-out of the School Tracking and Learning Assessment (STELA) tool, enabling ministries and partners to monitor school readiness and children’s developmental progress. We have also provided technical assistance to foundational learning reforms across sub-Saharan Africa.
CASE STUDY
Through the INSPIRED programme, we are working with the Government of Kenya to strengthen early childhood education and foundational learning, particularly for some of the country’s most marginalised children. The programme combines teacher development, coaching and mentoring, support for early childhood centres, and national policy reform, helping to improve the quality of early learning while building the systems needed to sustain improvement at scale.
To date, INSPIRED has supported more than 1,300 early childhood educators, reached over 61,000 children and contributed to reforms designed to place foundational learning at the heart of education policy.
Every child deserves the best possible start. Let's work together to make that happen.
Marion leads evidence-informed strategy and knowledge management at edt, consolidating insights and translating research into solutions to address global education challenges. She brings extensive international experience supporting system-wide reform to improve learning quality and equity.