Programs of World Literacy Initiative


Textual Development

World Literacy Initiative's new text, Teaching Methods That Really Work! - Evidence Based Methods of Instruction (EBMI) was published in July 2010.  World Literacy Initiative will be distributing the text free of charge to ministries of education, lead universities and teacher training colleges in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) beginning in August.

It is hoped that interest by one or more of the 21 Anglophone SSA countries will lead to our next trip to SSA.  Numerous positive reviews of the new text (intended for new [preservice] teachers and their teacher educators) were received by educators and research psychologists in the U.S. and Canada.  Here is a brief sampling taken from the text's back cover.



As Guskey (1986; Guskey & Huberman, 1995; and Guskey 2002) has argued quite effectively, positive changes occurring in learner academic performance as a result of improved teaching, may be the most effective means to achieving lasting change in those same teacher attitudes and behaviors as well.  The new EBMI text takes this fact fully in to account as part of its primary strategy for achieving lasting improvements in teacher performance at both pre-service and in-service levels.

Public Outreach, Information Sharing, Fund-Raising and Speaking Engagements

Public out reach by World Literacy Initiative is always a concern but so often in the past, it has not been greatly feasible, at least in the United States.  However, right now and for the coming months, all personnel are in the United States working on various projects so access to our organization is easier now than at any other time in its nine year history.  Other fund-raising and speaking engagements will also be planned and have already been occurring. 

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