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READING FOR ETHIOPIA’S ACHIEVEMENT DEVELOPED TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE (READ TA) PROJECT Quarterly Report JANUARY 1 to MARCH 31, 2016 Submission Date: APRIL 30, 2016 Cooperative Agreement Number: AID-663-A-12-00013 Activity Start Date and End Date: OCTOBER 8, 2012, to OCTOBER 8, 2017 AOR Name: Tesfaye Kelemework Submitted by: Dr. Stephen Backman, Chief of Party RTI INTERNATIONAL Bole Medhanialem, Mafi City Mall 5th Floor, Addis Ababa Tel: +251-116 62 6788 E-mail: [email protected] This document was produced for review by the United States Agency for International Development. Page 1 of 63 TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Tables ................................................................................................. 3 Abbreviations ................................................................................................ 4 1. Program Overview/Summary ................................................................ 5 1.1 Project Description ............................................................................................. 6 1.2 Summary of Results to Date, Quarterly Report.................................................. 7 1.3 Summary of Results to Date, Annual Report ...................................................... 8 2. ACTIVITY IMPLEMENTATION PROGRESS ................................................ 9 2.1 Progress Narrative .............................................................................................. 9 2.2 Implementation Status ..................................................................................... 10 IR 1. READING AND WRITING MATERIALS APPROPRIATE FOR PRIMARY CLASSROOMS AND PRE-SERVICE AND IN-SERVICE TEACHER TRAINING DEVELOPED ........................ 12 IR 2: LANGUAGE-SPECIFIC TEACHING AND LEARNING METHODOLOGIES AND STRATEGIES THAT FOCUS ON HELPING STUDENTS LEARN TO READ AND WRITE EFFECTIVELY ARE APPLIED ........................................................................................... 15 IR 3: LANGUAGE TEACHING AND LEARNING SUPPORTED BY APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY AND TEACHING AIDS ............................................................................ 24 IR 4: TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO SUPPORT RSEBs AND THE MOE FOR THE READ INSTITUTIONAL IMPROVEMENT.................................................................................. 31 2.3 Implementation Challenges .............................................................................. 41 3. LESSONS LEARNED ............................................................................... 42 ANNEX A: Performance Plan and Report of Progress Summary, by Quarter45 ANNEX B: SuccesS Story .............................................................................. 47 Page 2 of 48 LIST OF TABLES Table 1. Summary of Results to Date, Quarterly Report ........................................................................... 7 Table 2. Summary of Results to Date, Annual Report................................................................................ 8 Table 3. Orientation Workshop on the Revised Scope and Sequence Updating Template ..................... 12 Table 4. Second Grant Administration Consultative Meeting with the MOE and RSEBs ......................... 15 Table 5. Training of Grades 1–4 Teachers Training Monitors .................................................................. 16 Table 6. Grades 1–4 Teacher Training for the Five Regions and Two Adapting Regions under Grant #2 17 Table 7. Grades 1–4 Teacher Training for Adapting Addis Ababa City Administration under Grant #3 .. 18 Table 8. Refresher Training for Grades 1–4 Teacher Trainers’ and Support Personnel for Five Regions 19 Table 9: New Teacher Trainers and RSEB Experts Trained for Tigray and Ethio-Somali Regions ............ 20 Table 10. Teacher Trainers’ Training for Adapting Amhara Region ......................................................... 21 Table 11. Teacher Trainers’ Training for Addis Ababa City Administration ............................................. 21 Table 12. Grades 5–8 Model Teacher Video Validation Workshop Participants ..................................... 24 Table 13. Number of Validated Grades 5–8 Model Teacher Videos in Seven MTs ................................. 25 Table 14. Regional Consultative Workshops on the Assistive Technology Pilot Initiative ....................... 28 Table 15. Finalization Revision of MT Versions of Module 3 (TMT 224) .................................................. 33 Table 16. External Review of Revised Module 3: TMT 224 in Seven MT Languages ......................... 33 Table 17. Production of Module 3: TMT 224 ........................................................................................... 34 Table 18. Preparatory Workshop for Regional M&E CB Workshops ....................................................... 36 Table 19. Regional Consensus-Building Workshops on M&E of MT Curriculum Implementation .......... 36 Table 20. Woreda-Level M&E Capacity-Building Workshops Participants .............................................. 38 Table 21. Capacity-Building Workshop to Foster Collaboration among MOE Directorates for MT Curriculum Implementation .................................................................................................................... 39 Table 22. Consultative Workshop with MOE and RSEBs on the Implementation of the Gender Guideline .................................................................................................................................................. 41 Table 23. Planned Budget for Q3 of Year 4 .............................................................................................. 44 Table 24. Performance Plan and Report of Progress Summary, FY 2016 ................................................ 45 Page 3 of 48 ABBREVIATIONS CAEB City Administration Education Bureau CB capacity building COP Chief of Party CTE College of Teacher Education DCOP Deputy Chief of Party DPO disability people’s organizations ESA English Situation Analysis FSU Florida State University FY fiscal year G&I gender and inclusion G&IE gender and inclusive education ICT information and communications technology IR intermediate result M&E monitoring and evaluation MOE Ministry of Education MT mother tongue NGO nongovernmental organization Q quarter QA quality assurance R&C reading and curriculum READ TA Reading for Ethiopia’s Achievement Developed Technical Assistance RSEB Regional State Education Bureau SCI Save the Children International SNE special needs education SNNPR Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples’ Region TDP Teacher Development Program TLL Tsehai Loves Learning TMT Teaching Mother Tongue TT Teacher Trainer USAID US Agency for International Development USG United States Government WKW Whiz Kids Workshop ZED Zone Education Department Page 4 of 48 1. PROGRAM OVERVIEW/SUMMARY Program Name: Reading for Ethiopia’s Achievement Developed Technical Assistance (READ TA) Project Activity Start Date and End October 8, 2012, to October 8, 2017 Date: Name of Prime RTI International Implementing Partner: Cooperative Agreement AID-663-A-12-00013 Number: Name of SIL LEAD, Save the Children International, Whiz Kids Subcontractors/Sub- Workshop, Inveneo, and Florida State University awardees: Major Counterpart Ministry of Education and Regional State Education Bureaus Organizations: Nationwide with project offices in Amhara (Bahir Dar), Geographic Coverage Tigray (Mekelle), Oromia (Addis Ababa), Ethio-Somali (cities and/or regions): (Jigjiga), and SNNPR (Hawassa). January 1–March 31, 2016 Reporting Period: Page 5 of 48 1.1 Project Description Initiated in October 2012, the Reading for Ethiopia’s Achievement Developed Technical Assistance (READ TA) project is a 5-year (2012–2017) US Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded initiative to improve the reading and writing performance of 15 million primary students in seven Ethiopian languages (Amharic, Af-Somali, Afaan Oromo, Tigrinya, Sidaamu Afoo, Wolayttatto, and Hadiyyisa) and English. Working closely with the Ministry of Education (MOE) and Regional State Education Bureaus (RSEBs), READ TA is implemented by RTI International and six other implementing partners: Save the Children International (SCI), Florida State University (FSU), Whiz Kids Workshop (WKW), SIL LEAD, Inveneo, and Books for Africa. READ TA is a major component in the effort toward improving the learning outcomes of primary- school students, specifically in reading and writing. In this regard, the project aims to achieve the following four intermediate results (IRs): . IR 1: Reading and writing materials appropriate for primary classrooms and pre-service and in- service teacher training developed . IR 2: Language specific teaching and learning methodologies and strategies that focus on helping students learn to read and write effectively are applied . IR 3: Language teaching and learning supported by appropriate technology and teaching aids; and . IR 4: Technical assistance to support RSEBs and the MOE for the READ Institutional Improvement While working to achieve these IRs, READ TA also strives to address three crosscutting themes of paramount importance in complementing its efforts: (1) gender and inclusion (GI), (2) capacity building (CB), and (3) information and communications technology (ICT). READ TA coordinates project activities from its central office in Addis Ababa but also operates in five of the biggest regions of Ethiopia. It has opened offices in the regional capitals of Amhara, Oromia, Ethio-Somali,