BEC-GRN Webinar Follow-Up: Learning & Adapting on Reading Programs during COVID-19

Thank you for your interest in the BEC-GRN event: Learning and Adapting on Reading Programs during COVID-19!

The Basic Education Coalition and Global Reading Network were pleased to welcome 200 members of our global development community (from Honduras to Chad to Indonesia) to discuss ways to learn and adapt on reading programs during this pandemic.

Please find the reference information below: 

• Webinar Recording: Learning and Adapting on Reading Programs during COVID-19

• Presentations (FHI 360, Juarez & Associates, RTI International, STS International)

• Intervention details (FHI 360, Juarez & Associates, RTI International, STS International)

Finally, if you are not yet on the GRN email list, you can sign up here. Please also feel free to reach out to the Global Reading Network at GRN@usaid.gov. To join the BEC newsletter listserv, click here.

BEC-GRN Webinar Follow-Up: Evaluating/Assessing Reading Programs during COVID-19

Thank you for your interest in the BEC-GRN event: Evaluating/Assessing Reading Programs during COVID-19!

The Basic Education Coalition and Global Reading Network were pleased to welcome 250 members of our global development community (from Haiti to Ethiopia to Fiji) to discuss ways to evaluate reading programs during this pandemic.

Please find the reference information below: 

• Webinar Recording: Evaluating/Assessing Reading Programs during COVID-19

• Webinar Presentations

• CARE International Intervention Details

• Centre for the Study of African Economies Intervention Details

• Creative Associates International Intervention Details

Finally, if you are not yet on the GRN email list, you can sign up here. Please also feel free to reach out to the Global Reading Network at GRN@usaid.gov. To join the BEC newsletter listserv, click here.

Stay tuned for the next webinar in this series, which will focus on learning and adapting reading programs during COVID-19. 

BEC-GRN Webinar Follow-Up: Monitoring Reading Programs during COVID-19

Thank you for your interest in the BEC-GRN event: Monitoring Reading Programs during COVID-19!

The Basic Education Coalition and Global Reading Network were pleased to welcome over 300 members of our global development community (from the Dominican Republic to Kyrgyzstan to Nepal) to discuss ways to monitor reading programs during this pandemic.

Please find the reference information below: 

• Webinar Recording: Monitoring Reading Programs during COVID-19

• Chemonics presentation & Overview

• Education Development Center presentation & Overview

• RTI International presentation & Overview

• Worldreader presentation & Overview

Finally, if you are not yet on the GRN email list, you can sign up here. Please also feel free to reach out to the Global Reading Network at GRN@usaid.gov. To join the BEC newsletter listserv, click here.

Stay tuned for the next webinars in this series! One will focus on Evaluation/Assessment, the other on Learning.

BEC & GRN hold Webinar: Reading Instruction in the Age of COVID-19 — Planning for the Present and the Future

The Basic Education Coalition and Global Reading Network were pleased to welcome nearly 200 members of our global development community (from Costa Rica to Malawi to Uzbekistan) to discuss ways to best support reading instruction during this pandemic and beyond. 

Please find the reference information below: 

• Webinar Recording: Reading Instruction in the Age of COVID-19 — Planning for the Present and the Future

• Chemonics presentation

• FHI 360 presentation 

• World Bank presentation

Finally, if you are not yet on the GRN email list, you can sign up here. Please also feel free to reach out to the Global Reading Network at GRN@usaid.gov. To join the BEC newsletter listserv, click here.

BEC holds Global Reading Network's final evaluation presentation

The Basic Education Coalition and Global Reading Network were pleased to welcome nearly 100 members of our global development community (from India to Mexico to Zambia) to discuss the evaluation's findings. 

Please find the reference information below: 

• GRN final evaluation presentation

• GRN final evaluation presentation recording

• ECCN-GRN final evaluation 

• Basic Education Coalition GRN Resource Page (to which we will continue to add resources)

We have prepared a survey to give you the opportunity to make additional comments and ask any questions that were not addressed in the presentation. If you are interested in participating in the survey (linked here), please do so by this Friday, May 1st.
 
Finally, if you are not yet on the GRN email list, you can sign up here. Please also feel free to reach out to the Global Reading Network at GRN@usaid.gov. 

BEC to Host the Global Reading Network in 2020

The BEC Board of Directors is pleased to welcome the Global Reading Network (GRN) for a temporary hosting arrangement at BEC. Since its founding in 2014, GRN has brought together donors, practitioners, government officials, national and international CSO’s, and other stakeholders committed to improving reading outcomes for primary grade children around the world. BEC will support the continuation of core components of GRN’s work in 2020.