Our Programs
Many children are not leaving school with the skills and competencies they need to thrive and succeed
Dignitas supports partner schools to form school leadership teams who are focused on children’s learning and well-being, Dignitas aligns with recommendations of the World Development Report 2018 (World Bank) which suggests that effective school leadership, improved pedagogy, and teacher development and support are key to beating the global learning crisis.
By offering innovative, award-winning, training and coaching to school leadership teams, Dignitas ensures gains for learners. An indicative study showed that learners in Dignitas supported classrooms learn three times as much in the course of a lesson as their peers in non-Dignitas supported classrooms. Dignitas’ training and coaching focuses on three pillars, highlighted by an external evaluation as the support most likely to improve learner outcomes: instructional leadership, learner engagement and classroom culture.
Over the period of a school partnership, Dignitas tracks important shifts in leadership and classroom practice that are proven to improve learning outcomes. We often work alongside government education officers to ensure longer term support and sustainability of impact.
Dignitas’ training follows a series of learning cycles, designed with an emphasis on the modelling and practice of new leadership and classroom strategies that can transform teaching and learning.
Dignitas has uniquely and innovatively embedded coaching and Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) within its solution to ensure a long-term pursuit of whole school improvement at the community level. It does so by building the capacity of the school teams to set and pursue goals for improvement, and the mechanism (PLCs, Peer Coaching) to track and implement new practices aligned to these goals.
Dignitas’ coaching is individualized, school and classroom based support, designed to help transform schools in impactful ways. Dignitas’ use of teacher and school leader competency rubrics to track growth, and help educators set goals that will improve learning, ensures that coaching and training are in support of a clear framework for improvement. This is complemented by the regular and consistent use of data to track competency gains and target training and coaching to personalized gaps.
Dignitas has also designed LeadNow!, a set of digital training and coaching tools that seeks to replicate this excellence in remote training and coaching programs.
Dignitas works with a variety of stakeholders to apply our expertise and experience to a range of educational challenges through the lens of school leadership – whether in response to a global pandemic, or to particular challenges faced in Early Years learning, national curriculum reform, or improving outcomes for girls. Dignitas partners with school leadership teams to build their competency to address the pressing challenges of education.
Our flagship Stawisha Instructional Leadership Institute equips school leaders and teachers to deliver learner centred teaching. Our Ustadi School Leadership Institute, designed in partnership with Global School Leaders, works with Head Teachers and their Deputies to nurture learner centred leadership.
Our Model
Leadership Academy
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.
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.
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.
Dignitas Alumni Association
Alumni Association enables ongoing learning and growth, and offers graduates the opportunity to support the professional development of other educators, whilst driving systemic change.