Welcome to
TEACH Rwanda
How We Began
A phone call in the middle of the night from Louise Batamuriza, a talented Rwandan pre-primary teacher who had been mentored by Jan Brown, started the adventure. Louise had opened a new school in January 2012. It was equipped with just one box of 24 Crayola® Crayons and a mat on the floor! Financial resources, learning materials, skilled teachers...Bright School needed everything.
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Almost immediately, TEACH Rwanda became a reality, and lives began to change dramatically on two continents. The vision—to bring world-class, culturally relevant practices in early childhood education and teacher mentoring to Rwanda—quickly expanded. Today, TEACH Rwanda is transforming the education infrastructure across the country by mentoring teachers in our TEACH for Transformation (T4T) teacher development system.
Our Mission
Collaborate with education leaders through teacher capacity-building to implement global best practices in play and project-based learning that will result in a world-class education system in Rwanda.
Our Vision
Rwanda will be a nation of analytical thinkers, confident communicators, collaborative innovators, and compassionate leaders, with a culture that embeds life-long learning based on play and projects.Â
TEACH Rwanda's High Standards
TEACH Rwanda is transforming early childhood and primary teacher mentoring in Rwanda. Through TEACH for Transformation (T4T), our teacher mentoring system, we coach Rwandan teachers to offer children engaging, meaningful learning experiences.
We welcome partnerships with public and private schools, colleges and universities, TTCs, other INGOs and NGOs, and Rwandan government officials.
TEACH Rwanda is a non-profit, U.S.-based NGO and an INGO in Rwanda.
TR provides pre-service and in-service professional development with needs assessments, observations, workshops, tools, and resources--our TEACH for Transformation (T4T) mentoring system
TR encourages our Exemplary and Partner Schools to use creative, recycled, and low-cost Rwanda-relevant teaching and learning materials and furnishings
TR insists on just 20 children per pre-primary classroom with two well-prepared teachers, and no more than 24 primary children with one teacher, all of whom implement modern teaching strategies
T4T builds Rwandan teacher and school supervisor's leadership capacities
Why We Are Passionate About
Evidence-Based, High-Quality Education
Objective research findings consistently show that children who experience play- and project-based learning in their early years build lasting analytical thinking skills, confidence, and curiosity.
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TEACH Rwanda's transformative approach to education, refined since 2010 with Rwandan teachers and school leaders, is grounded in those findings and adapted to Rwanda's culture, languages, and resources.