Overview

Strengthening foundational literacy and numeracy (FLN)

ensures children’s lifelong learning.

We partner with state governments to transform the

teaching of FLN in classrooms at scale.

Know More About How We Work

Our Covid-19 Response "Har Ghar School"

For Social Contribution at the

Masters Transformation Centre (MTC) 2021

OUR INITIATIVES

Transforming Language Teaching & Learning

"Language is not everything in education, but without language

everything is nothing in education" (Wolff)

THE LEARNING POVERTY CRISIS

55% of children in India are

unable to read and comprehend

a simple text at age 10

Extensive global evidence indicates that when students fail to acquire strong foundational skills by Grade 3, they don’t do well in later school years and have a greater likelihood of dropping out.

At LLF, we are working alongside the government

to close this gap in foundational literacy and

numeracy (FLN) at scale. We do this by

Continuous Professional Development

Building capacity in the entire education ecosystem by training teachers, mentors and administrators

Demonstration Programs

Collaborating with government agencies at the district level to demonstrate the power of improved learning through effective FLN implementation

System Strengthening

Building capacity of the government agencies through workshops, training programs and demonstrating good practices to ensure that they can work on FLN solutions on their own

OUR REACH

Since 2015, we have worked with 10

state governments to address

this problem at scale

Through our programs, we have impacted 10.85 lakh teachers and 1.62 crore children across 32 districts in 10 states.

*Hover on the coloured states on the map to view our work.

Haryana

Working since: 2016

Students Reached: 9,44,830

Teachers Reached: 35,728

Schools Reached: 8671

District Demonstration Programs: 4

Languages covered: 1 (Hindi)

Since 2015, we have partnered with 10 state

governments, reaching 1.62 crore children and

10.85 lakh teachers.

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WE WORK ON 3 FOCUS AREAS

Investing in Continuous Professional Development of Teachers & Mentors

Building capacity within the system to sustain foundational learning programs

Through CPD, we provide ongoing professional development to primary school teachers and academic and administrative staff that is imperative to change classroom practices and improve children’s foundational skills.

PROGRAM DETAILS

Driving System Strengthening and Reform at Scale

We collaborate with state governments to develop and implement high-quality FLN programs and also build commitment and capacity in the system to sustain them independently

This is achieved through statewide teacher training, improved preservice teacher education, building capacity of state institutions like SCERT/ DIET and state resource groups (SRGs) to support teachers and a comprehensive student assessment with a focus on remedial support to struggling learners.

PROGRAM DETAILS

Demonstrating strong teaching and learning practices at the district level

The most powerful way to bring about lasting systemic change is to co-design and develop an easily replicable and dynamic strategy that demonstrates clearly defined, tangible outcomes

Through the District Demonstration program, our objective is to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the government systems of training, mentoring and data use to demonstrate how children’s learning outcomes can be improved in a period of 3-5 years.

PROGRAM DETAILS

OUR IMPACT

Accountability is everything

We are a data driven organisation and we hold ourselves accountable for impact by measuring outcomes through third-party evaluations.

Student Performance in Oral

Reading and Comprehension

Intervention

Non Intervention

42.4%

30.3%

Oral Reading Fluency

Students showed an improvement of 42.4 words per minute in schools where Haryana Early Literacy Development Impact Bond was implemented, compared to other schools, where the program was not implemented.

36.7%

25.2%

Reading Comprehension

Reading comprehension levels of children in Grade 2 in Haryana improved to 36.7 words per minute in intervention schools compared to non intervention schools as evaluated by Educational Initiatives(Ei)(2022)

85% Average score improvement across LLF course participants

in the endline as compared to the baseline. (Third-party evaluation by CERP, 2019)

51% of grade 2 students in Chhattisgarh have achieved the level reading comprehension

versus 29% of the non-intervention group

(External evaluation by Impact Partner in Social Development)

M & E

Inside a classroom:

Playing a game of word-antakshari with

class 3 children

Angarag Kumar Bhuyan

Assistant Teacher, Government Primary School Kanya Ashram Sivpur, Chhattisgarh

“I have undergone the online ‘Xahajyogi Xamal’ course (Online CAC Course) that has been prepared by Language and Learning Foundation for the academic coordinators (State Resource Groups, District Resource Groups, Block Resource Persons, etc.). The course has built my capacity to provide school support as an SRG member and in upgrading teaching-learning processes in my own school and my professional development. It also has developed my understanding of the relevance of FLN for children in the foundational stage and the ongoing NIPUN Bharat Mission. The course helped me resolve doubts and clear some concepts. I firmly believe that this course will help our teachers too.”

OUR PARTNERS

We are as strong as our partnerships

Our partnerships are critical to our work’s success. Here are a few of the key partners supporting us with funding, strategy, program delivery and technology.