Category: Impact stories

Classrooms, families and teachers, cited from named studies and films.

Portrait of an adult Kenyan woman teacher in an empty classroom with a chalkboard of working.

PSL Fireside

Esther Diera: math that has to live outside the textbook

Kakamega mathematics and chemistry teacher, PSL Fireside, June 2025. She struggled with maths in Form 1 and 2. Scratch Day at MMUST…

A head teacher walks a corridor between classrooms during lessons.

Eastern Spotlight

Katangini, Mwingi North: the headteacher who asked us to come

Hannah Kiva, Eastern regional lead, on an onboarding at Katangini Primary. The headteacher, Mr William, invited a colleague from Kalatine Primary. March…

Adult headteachers in conversation in a modest county hall.

Coast Spotlight

Taita Taveta: hills, a KEPSHA chair, and a room of heads

Geoffrey Ombati, Coast lead, drove from Mombasa to Mwatate in March 2025. The useful meeting was a heads’ conference, not the weather.

North Rift

Bidii Comprehensive, Moiben: “Shule yangu iko reserve sana”

Winnie Sikinyi, North Rift lead, reached Bidii Comprehensive in the valleys beyond Eldoret in January 2025. The headteacher, Mr William, had asked…

Adults seated in a modest county hall for an education sitting.

Field note

Nyamira County Education Day, 2024 — a county sitting, not a product launch

Nyamira held a first Education Day to recognise learners and teachers. The original post was published under the broken slug __trashed-2. We…

A young adult teacher walking between desks during a mathematics lesson.

Essay

The thermometer of education: take the reading while it can still change

A first-person note from 2012 at Kenyatta University Primary School, published January 2024. Formative assessment as a thermometer — not the exam…

Impact story

Kiunga Primary, Lamu: a three-hour sitting near the border

14 July 2023. Eustace Gatenjwa trained twenty staff at Kiunga Primary School, near the Kenya–Somalia border. Learner registration, attendance, plans, formative and…