EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC
43 Foundry Avenue, Waltham, MA 02453 www.edc.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC), is a global nonprofit organization that works with public-sector and private partners, harnessing the power of people and systems to improve education, health promotion and care, workforce preparation, communications technologies, and civic engagement.

Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC), is a global nonprofit organization that advances lasting solutions to improve education, promote health, and expand economic (continued from page 1) opportunity. Since 1958, we have been a leader in designing, implementing, and evaluating powerful and innovative programs in more than 80 countries around the world. Our work is organized in Bodies of Work: Behavioral, Physical, and Mental Health; Capacity Building for Individuals, Organizations, and Systems; Early Childhood Development and Learning; Elementary and Secondary Education; HIV and Sexual and Reproductive Health; Opioid and Other Substance Abuse Prevention; Out-of-School Learning; STEM; Suicide, Violence, and Injury Prevention; Youth and Workforce Development. Our services include: Design and Development, Evaluation, Implementation, Policy, and Research. Regions where we work: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the United States.

In 2020, EDC's International Development Division developed: A. Distance Education During COVID-19: As school systems shut down during the pandemic, IAI programs--broadcast by radio--have emerged as a solution that both donors and governments wanted to explore. USAID asked all implementing partners that had created Interactive Audio Instruction (IAI) programs to upload them to a site where USAID could make them widely available to governments, implementing partners and others. IDD spent a good deal of time in May, June and even July going through IDD's extensive catalogue of IAI programs, identifying what programs and program supports (i.e., teacher guides, etc.) are available and digitizing IAI programs that were on CDs and even some on cassette tapes. IDD has located 23 IAI series from 18 countries and has shared them with USAID. Likewise, IDD's toolkit for repurposing IAI programs has been widely distributed and referred by many donor organizations and development professionals. In 2020, EDC has signed agreements with the World Bank, UNICEF, UNESCO, and the InterAmerican Development Bank (IDB) to provide various types of technical assistance all related too interactive audio instruction and distance education more broadly. B. IDD Study of COVID 19 Impact on Beneficiaries: IDD's Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning team surveyed teachers, parents, education officials, and youth across six countries about how the pandemic has affected their health, livelihoods, educational opportunities, and frame of mind and has created a dashboard that shares the results, which can be sorted by country and several variables, such as gender. The link to the dashboard is: https://covid19research.edc.ord/Dashboard. C. Selected IDD Project Successes: Honduras Reading Activity-The new Spanish curriculum standards developed by the Honduras Reading Activity (HRA) team in collaboration with the MOE were published in the October 22, 2020 edition of the Gaceta, the Government of Honduras bulletin (like the Federal Register in the US), along with a decree making them official nationwide. The HRA team also successfully adapted its teacher training course on reading and writing instruction in primary grades to a virtual format, accessible via computer, tablet, or cell phone, using the Ministry of Education's on-line learning platform. Over 4,600 teachers successfully completed the course in 2020, with more cohorts planned for 2021. Lebanon Higher Education Capacity Development: The project delivered five high quality, virtual webinars/trainings/e-mentoring sessions, covering a variety of topics, to faculty and administrators from the nine partner HEIs. The first three in the list of offerings below put an emphasis on institutional strengthening and capacity development to help HEI partners sustain what HECD has begun. HECD offerings included: Grant Writing, Data for Decision Making, Women's Equity & empowerment, Work Ready Now orientation and training. Also, of note, in quarter 1 of FY21, 569 students across five universities received the WRN! course. D. New Awards. Egypt Teach for Tomorrow: EDC is implementing the USAID funded project to support improvements in primary-level instruction across the country. Over four years, EDC and its partner Keys to Effective Learning will work with Egypt's Ministry of Education and Technical Education to enhance teacher professional development and strengthen the professional licensing and certification of teachers. Uganda Integrated Child and Youth Development (ICYD): EDC is implementing the USAID Integrated Child and Youth Development activity, a five-year effort to improve education, health, and social protection for 2.9 million children and youth in Uganda. With partners Bantwana Initiative of World Education, Inc., Arizona State University, Redearth Education, School-to-School International (STS), and Resonance, the project will support the Government of Uganda's efforts to better align and deliver social services for young people.

U.S. Division: In the US Division, there is an increased focus on pursuing work in school-based prevention, building on the new Social-Emotional Learning (SEL)/Mental Health Academy that we were awarded for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. We developed a conceptual model and process for social-emotional learning (SEL) and mental health integration that will be branded by EDC and marketed to states, districts, and schools. EDC was awarded and then launched new projects focused on principal leadership. One project is an expansion of the principal leadership work to new areas of the country. The second project is focused on implementing and managing a new learning community for equity-focused leadership. EDC's First 10 initiative has continued to grow, and multiple communities across four states are implementing First 10. EDC staff submitted proposals for and won the next iteration of a number of large projects. These include the Amgen Biotech Experience project, the NSF STEM Learning and Research Center, and the Ready to Learn project. The breadth of US-based early childhood work expanded with the addition of two new projects, leading national centers for the US Department of Health and Human Services: the National Center on Health, Behavioral Health, and Safety and the National Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Technical Resource Center project). To respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, staff quickly identified numerous engaging and helpful resources for teachers and families-free apps, games, and curricula developed by staff-that appear on edc.org's COVID-19 landing page. They also wrote multiple blog posts for edc.org to address a wide range of topics related to COVID-19 including staying calm/self-care, supporting children's well-being and learning, communicating effectively about COVID-19, and providing effective virtual learning. For our Regional Education Laboratory, Northeast and Islands project, EDC staff hosted a listening session with the Governing Board that included commissioners, district leaders, and other representatives from educational agencies, and quickly created a number of FAQ documents that have been published by the Institute of Education Sciences and address leaders' most pressing issues during COVID-19. Within three days of learning the Governor of Rhode Island had closed public schools and child care centers due to COVID-19, EDC's Center for Early Learning Professionals converted face-to-face trainings to virtual and provided tech tutorials to Rhode Island's early childhood teachers. Staff also launched an online hub of COVID-19 related resources in English and Spanish that links to EDC.org's COVID-19 webpage and created "learn at home" resources for teachers to share with families. Staff swiftly updated EDC's Infectious Diseases site to bring the site up to technical code and add new COVID-19 content to help young people understand the pandemic and their role in preventing its spread. On April 28, the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention at EDC launched the U.S. COVID-19 Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Response Effort to address immediate mental health needs and prepare for future needs by mitigating risks and building resiliency. This effort includes leaders from American Express, the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, Johnson & Johnson, and 20+ national organizations.

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