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Our Story

About Us

We imagine a world where schools are a vibrant place for all children to develop the skills and strength of character to thrive and succeed. Dignitas is a leading education development organization. We use an innovative training and coaching approach to empower schools and educators in marginalized communities to transform students’ opportunities.
We are passionately purpose-driven
We co-create solutions with schools, communities, and system actors
We find joy in our work, our team, and our communities
We are always listening and learning
We found partnerships in trust and transformative impact
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Our Journey

Key Mechanisms

Our Model

Dignitas uses an innovative, award-winning training and coaching approach to empower schools and educators in marginalized communities to transform students’ opportunities.  Our vision is a world where every school is a vibrant place for children to gain the skills and strength of character to thrive and succeed. Our approach involves a  between Dignitas and carefully selected schools, designed to equip educators to transform education in their community.  School Partnerships include various programs in combination to catalyze transformation and sustain development.

Dignitas leverages five key mechanisms to deliver on school partnerships:

Leadership Academies

This series of intensive classroom-based training summits introduces ideas and concepts that empower educators to be inspiring leaders and excellent teachers. The aim is to shift beliefs, attitudes, and values so that educators see the potential in their schools and students. The Leadership Academy lays the foundation for educators to take charge of improving their schools and catalyzes school improvement efforts.

Coaching

Our workshops provide targeted professional development for both school leaders and teachers and build more complex knowledge and skills on top of the foundation created in the Leadership Academies. Professional Development Workshops equip educators with the mindsets, tools and techniques they need to ensure all children thrive.

Professional Learning Communities

Professional Learning Communities help educators to routinize sustainable reflective practice towards whole school improvement. School Leadership teams foster a community of best practices and ensure sustainable professional growth and development continues after the program concludes.

Professional Development Workshops

Our workshops provide targeted professional development for both school leaders and teachers and build more complex knowledge and skills on top of the foundation created in the Leadership Academies. Professional Development Workshops equip educators with the mindsets, tools and techniques they need to ensure all children thrive.

Dignitas Alumni Community

Alumni Community enables ongoing learning and growth, and offers graduates the opportunity to support the professional development of other educators, whilst driving systemic change.
2023 in Numbers

Our Impact

Dignitas takes pride in having positively impacted the education of over 200,000 children. While our approach focuses on teachers and school leaders, our ultimate goal is to create a world where every school becomes a vibrant space for all children to develop essential skills and character. When we coach and train an educator, we’re not just equipping an individual—we’re empowering a leader to transform entire schools and shape the future of their community.

Children in Dignitas classrooms learn three times as much as peers in non-Dignitas classrooms

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Learners Impacted

Our Impact

1,469

School Partnerships

3,136

School Leaders Trained

132,085

Learners reached

6,031

School Uniforms
Distributed

53

Education Officers
Trained

7

Scholarships
Awarded

Mission

Our mission is to equip and empower educators in underserved communities who will transform opportunities for the next generation.

Vision

Our vision is a world where schools are a vibrant place for all children to develop the skills and strength of character to thrive and succeed.

Our Framework

Dignitas is driven by our GIVES framework

Growth

Prepare, partner for, and pursue growth. Engage community, government and other stakeholders as an integral part of that growth.
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Impact

Ensure that all our work is impactful, and therefore meaningful, in ensuring schools are places for children to thrive and succeed.
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Value

Our impact is only sustainable if it is affordable. Ensure effectiveness and efficiency, apply innovative thinking and design.
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Evidence

Build and share a credible body of evidence that speaks to the role of school leaders and teacher leaders, the potential of learners, and their right to thrive.
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Sustain

Ensure systems are in place for long term organizational health, and sustainable financial health. Be a place for team members to learn, thrive, achieve and grow.
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Recognition & Awards

hundrED 2022
2020 WISE Awards
hundrED 2021
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