The YELLA Program provided preparatory and secondary schools, youth centers, and university career centers - both private and public - a curriculum of leadership learning lessons and resources that built their capacity to deliver youth leadership programming in the future. YELLA empowered the participating students and educators to think about leadership in new ways, to take initiative with responsibility for their own actions, and to actively volunteer in their communities.
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The EGRA-a 15-minute oral assessment conducted one-on-one with the pupil to measure proficiency in reading fluency, comprehension, phonemic awareness, letter knowledge, and other foundation skills-was developed by the Research Triangle Institute and applied in several African countries in both English and French, the two official languages in the study sample. Keys worked with Egyptian linguists and educators to pilot the first Arabic adaptation of the Early Grade Reading Assessment (EGRA). Test results were used to identify learning barriers and prepare appropriate trainings to give Egyptian teachers the skills and tools they needed to improve teaching practice and student learning.
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Girls' Improved Learning Outcomes (GILO) was a three-year project funded by USAID in Egypt that aims to increase the enrollment, attendance, and achievement of girls in select primary, preparatory, and basic education schools in Fayoum, Beni Suef, Minia, and Qena governorates.
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The U.S. Agency for International Development and the TILO team worked closely with the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology and private sector partners to develop scalable models to integrate the use of education technology into school based reform activities in ways that improve student learning outcomes.
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