October 1, 2011 Our friends at Matenwa Community School have a great new video that explains their philosophies and practice. This school is a wonderful example of the type of education that we are working toward with our seven partner schools. Chapo ba Chris, Abner ak tout ekip nou an ! (Hats off to you […]
October 1, 2011 TEDxPort-au-Prince was a great success. What power there is in connecting people and sharing ideas. I’m (John Engle) honored that I had the opportunity to present about our work. While there are a lot of things I could talk about thanks to having the opportunity to be a part of such a […]
June 29, 2011 This past weekend was the 10th Annual Haiti Open Space Gathering. Every year this gathering convenes 60-80 educators and community leaders for an inspiring learning exchange. This event, which is completely run by Haitians, is among our many efforts to develop professional learning communities. We couldn’t be more grateful to Open Space […]
May 30, 2011 I (John Engle) had the opportunity to participate in research at Cirano, a Canadian-based think-tank. For some time, colleagues and I are trying to better understand the role of social exchange in people’s learning and decision-making. Click here to download the paper describing the research and findings. Below is a brief summary […]
April 10, 2011 Haiti Partners has the privilege of working with Vista Hermosa Foundation, which is making possible through significant grants, two important Haiti Partners projects: Capacity Building 3 and Social Enterprise for Advancing Quality Education. We invite you to review our two-year and 18 month reports, respectively, for these projects. Click here for Capacity […]
March 28, 2011 Haiti Partners’ mission is to help Haitians change Haiti through education for students, teachers, leaders, and disciples. Our educational efforts focus on helping Haitians change their country’s top-down, dictatorial teaching and leadership approach to one that empowers children and adults to discover their potential to create and to collaborate effectively. Our educational […]
March 6, 2011 Yesterday I (John Engle) visited one of the Circles of Change trainings in La Saline, a slum of Port au Prince. Here are some photos and a video. Click here for more photos downloadable in high resolution.
February 26, 2011 Yesterday our facilitators met for planning and evaluation of the USAID funded Civic Empowerment Project that Haiti Partners is doing. Click here to download report. Click here to learn more about the Civic Empowerment program.
February 22, 2011 Here’s a video below in Haitian-Creole done by group leader Alex Myril. This is one of the 40 Open Space meetings taking place right now. These Open Space meetings have anywhere between 20 and 100 people and are part of the USAID funded Civic Empowerment project we’re doing with 1,000 educators and […]
February 8, 2011 Last Friday our 20 Civic Empowerment group leaders came together to assess project progress, address challenges, and work together to improve the project as it nears its conclusion. Topics included questions about Open Space meeting facilitation, best practices for leading groups through the Haitian constitution and how to do final evaluations as […]
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