Social impact

Building sustainability and creating future teachers in Haiti

Project research

USAID Education Fact Sheet March 2017
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United States Institute of Peace -SPECIAL REPORT
Education and Conflict in Haiti: Rebuilding the Education Sector after the 2010 Earthquake
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Defining Fundamental Needs for Primary School Design in Haiti
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School leadership across borders: Examining a Canadian-Haitian partnership to support educational capacity-building in Haiti.
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Facilitating Reflection: A Manual for Leaders and Educators
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Haiti’s Political and Economic Conditions: In Brief
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Mother-tongue books in Haiti: The power of Kreyòl in learning to read and in reading to learn
Michel DeGraff Linguistics and Philosophy- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Creole Speakers and Standard Language Education
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Enhancing learning of children from diverse language backgrounds: Mother tongue-based bilingual or multilingual Education in the early years
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Migration for Education: Haitian University Students in the Dominican Republic
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Higher education in agriculture and sustainable development in Haiti
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A Strategy for Haitian Prosperity Presentation: Professor Michael E. Porter Harvard Business School
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Haitian Economic History
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Building Back Haitian Government Responsiveness: The Power and Limitations of Grassroots Advocacy
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Matenwa Project

The Friends of Matenwa Foundation’s mission is to be a democratic model of hands on education in Haiti that reflects the learning and growing possible in one’s local environment. The program uses methodologies designed for indigenous culture through experimentation, evaluation, and modifications, resulting in the present implementation of highly successful practices.

The Lab School

The Matènwa Community School mission was to help children learn information and receive training that would prepare them for their futures. This innovative model provides a framework for basic skills in math, reading and writing, and unique critical thinking and creative learning solutions through unifying circles, discussion, debate, and planning. Due to the popularity and adoption throughout Haiti, this rural school has become a national Lab School.

Mother Tongue Books

Children do not acquire functional literacy skills because they are not learning to read in their mother tongue. Book writing and By sharing across borders contributes to each other’s education and helping one another become literate.

Institute for Learning

A proven program that provides one week teacher trainings for schools seeking to find a more effective way to teach. Educators attend Teachers and directors have been coming to Matènwa, Lagonav from all over Haiti to learn through observation, dialogue, and hands on practice. They return to their own communities and try to emulate the Matènwa Way.  We hope that each school succeeds or surpasses us. 

Savanah School of Art and Design Collaboration (SCAD)

As a step toward reinventing traditional teaching methods, reformed teaching practice needs to be supported by flexible school design.  The evolving design of school infrastructure involves open classroom design, moveable furniture and new storage methods to accommodate reflection circles, use of manipulative resources and group forums. SCAD created a design for sustainable school environments class which involved student creation of ergonomic  designs  and  development  of plans for localized creation of classroom desk systems and moveable wall partition structures uniquely designed for an open classroom environment.  The design and development criteria include but are not be limited to;

• Locally sourced material for construction and hardware

• Ability for plans to be executed by local community workers and tradesman

• Can be applicable/replicable to Phase II and III of the Mount Fleury Project

• Can be replicated in numerous school communities throughout Haiti

• Designed with the local community participation in a user-centric design

• Create local jobs and be accretive to the local economy