The Basic Education Coalition's Gender & Social Inclusion (GSI) working group is excited to host this webinar on Holistic Education through Different Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) Approaches.

During the webinar, we'll learn from the following BEC member interventions:

• FHI 360 & Save the Children: USAID-Tunoze Gusoma project works with the Rwandan Ministry of Education to develop a national SEL framework aligned to the Rwandan competence-based curriculum. FHI 360 and Save the Children will share how the locally-led process has facilitated uptake and ownership of culturally relevant and evidence-based SEL approaches integrated into the literacy curriculum and has provided a foundation for SEL integration into other subjects and interventions. 

• RTI International: Jifunze Uelewe (JU) is a 4.5-year USAID/Tanzania activity, the aim of which is to sustainably improve literacy and numeracy skills while creating safe and inclusive learning environments for all pre-primary through Standard 4 students (approximately 1.3 million students) in five regions Tanzania. RTI will share about JU's training of nearly 17,000 teachers on 10 pedagogical strategies (which incorporate UDL, inclusive education, and SEL) and its.unique teacher continuous professional development (CPD) model that incorporates virtual CPD and communities of learning to both reinforce new pedagogical strategies and focus on teacher wellbeing.

• World Learning: QITABI 2, ('my book' in Arabic) is a 5-year USAID funded national education initiative with a holistic learning approach to improving literacy (French, Arabic, and English), numeracy, and social and emotional learning for primary grades 1-6 in public schools (approximately 149,000 students) across all eight governorates in Lebanon. World Learning will share about how QITABI 2 developed Lebanon's national SEL framework in close collaboration with the Lebanese Ministry of Education and integrated SEL into all the language subjects and math.