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How PSL reaches public schools: KEPSHA as the pipe, not the campaign
Problem Solvers League does not arrive in a public school as a campaign. It arrives because a chair the school already answers to said yes — and because the teacher then has a workspace, not a PDF.
Kurasa paper. Read the dates, definitions and method notes alongside the findings and the linked source documents.
This is a mechanism story. School names, chair names and contest results wait for written permission — except the Acacia Crest 2026 sitting, which is already on the public journal.
The pipe
KEPSHA’s zonal and sub-county chairs help participating public schools join Kurasa through their existing association. Teachers then use Kurasa Workspace for planning and classroom records, and PSL for shared assessment activities.
Work in Vihiga follows that sequence: discuss school needs with county and association leaders, authorise participation, then practise planning and formative assessment during the school week. Schools can arrange a termly PSL assessment when they are ready.
Public schools, on the record we already have
The public-school chapter did not start with a league. EdTech Hub featured Kurasa in 2023 among practitioners who treat evidence as part of building a product. That work continued in Kirinyaga County in 2023 and 2024: foundational learning evidence, generated with Brink and the Jacobs Foundation, in collaboration with the Teachers Service Commission. The findings helped take Kurasa into public schools. The partners page publishes ~400 public schools in Kenya on that trail. It does not publish a list of those schools here.
What a sitting is for
PSL is termly assessment, insight, and — when a group of schools needs it — a collective summative picture for associations, dioceses and other bodies. A contest sitting is a diagnostic with a public table, not a prize day that swallows the year.
The 2026 Acacia Crest edition involved twelve schools and 207 scored scripts, with an average of 37.3%. Individual and team recognition sat alongside school, strand and question-level analysis, giving participating teachers a basis for planning the next week’s practice.
What this paper is not
It is not a sales sheet for PSL Summative. Summative is a programme conversation for groups of schools; it is not a teacher signup. It is not a substitute for the weekday record’s 6,000+ teachers. It is not permission to name a headteacher who has not sat in front of a camera or signed a release. When those names are cleared, they will replace this paragraph — not a stock photo.
Topics Papers · Partnerships · PSL
Tags KEPSHA · Public schools · Shule ni Mwalimu
The pipe
A sitting, then a workspace.
Use Workspace to keep the classroom record through the week. Associations planning a shared assessment can contact the team about PSL Summative and the support their schools need.
