51% of Latin American elementary students have low performance when it comes to reading (OECD, 2019). In the population with the lowest socioeconomic level, this figure reaches 71%, whereas the OECD average is 23% (PISA, 2018). This is a great drawback, as education is the engine of development, and reading is the main basis of learning.
Let's All Learn to Read -LALR is a comprehensive and innovative model for learning literacy for elementary school students. Using face-to-face and digital strategies such as:
1. Training and support for teachers in pedagogy, classroom management, and the synthetic phonics method.
2. Design and provision of fun materials (k-5), for learning to read through socio-emotional skills.
3. Tutorials and personalized materials for children with difficulties who are lagging behind in their school trajectory in grades 2nd to 5th, and, demonstrate low reading results on the EGRA test (Early Grade Reading Assessment).
4. A timely and personalized evaluation system to identify and level students with learning lags.
LALR is transforming the lives of over 700.000 children and teachers from public schools in Colombia and Panama. Colombia and Panama adopted the program as a public policy.
It was evaluated by the Inter-American Development Bank and Harvard University, through three experimental assessments which in all cases showed improvements greater than 0.26 Standard Deviation.
Additionally, Ecuador and the Dominican Republic want to join this successful model and the interest is to reach all Latin-American countries. According to experts, a proper implementation of the program for 5 years would increase reading performance on standardized tests by 30%. This model has all the potential to transform Latin-America’s education in unprecedented ways.
We believe that educated and entrepreneurial people transform and generate development for themselves and their communities. We build local solutions with a global projection! If you are interested in learning more about our program or replicating it in other territories, write to us:
sisaza@funluker.org.co
