education – Dignitas Project

01 Sep 22

Brightshine school, Kayole

By Sharon Nashipae – Communications and Community Coordinator Walking into Brightshine School in Kayole, Nairobi, one can feel an instant change in ambiance. Although the street outside the school is densely populated, muddy, unsanitary and quite telling of the environment within which the children live, school is a different story.…

08 Feb 22

What We Learned in 2021; Here We Come 2022!

What a year we had in 2021! We were amazingly privileged to partner with 274 schools in marginalized communities around Kenya, to equip and support 859 School Leaders, so that 73,843 children could experience better quality teaching and learning! In 2020, we stretched our team and resource to provide additional…

07 Jan 22

New Year, New Opportunities – Come Join Our Team!

Happy New Year! What a privilege it is to be able to launch into a new year with a focus on children typically left behind. As we get into 2022, we’re not only launching a new annual strategy cycle, but our next five year strategy – watch this space! Front…

30 Nov 21

Meet our Dignitas Alumni – Teacher Eunice and Teacher Alvin!

Have you ever wondered what Dignitas’ school partnerships look like in action, and what that partnership means to our School Leaders? We’ll be introducing you to some of our Alumni over the next few days so that you can find out more! Teacher Eunice has been working at Destiny School…

30 Nov 21

Meet our Dignitas Alumni – Teacher Edwin!

Have you ever wondered what Dignitas’ school partnerships look like in action, and what that partnership means to our School Leaders? We’ll be introducing you to some of our Alumni over the next few days so that you can find out more! Teacher Edwin has been teaching at Destiny School…

Emotional Intelligence in the Classroom: Dignitas

30 Nov 21

Meet our Dignitas Alumni – Teacher Benjamin!

Have you ever wondered what Dignitas’ school partnerships look like in action, and what that partnership means to our School Leaders? We’ll be introducing you to some of our Alumni over the next few days so that you can find out more! Teacher Benjamin is the school leader at Golden…

01 Oct 21

LeadNow: Ensuring Impact

The World Bank and HundrED have just released a Spotlight Report highlighting the top 10 education innovations supporting in-service teacher professional development – our exciting new platform LeadNow made the list! In the process, we were asked to share our advice for policymakers intent on leveraging technology for teacher professional development. Here’s what we said……

01 Oct 21

The Road to LeadNow

As soon as the COVID19 pandemic hit Kenya in March 2020 we realised that it was going to be important for us to work alongside our school partners to ensure our commitment to them remained relevant and impactful. Whilst we never would have imagined that national school closures would have…

01 Oct 21

Dignitas’ LeadNow wins World Bank and HundrED Recognition!

Dignitas is delighted to have its innovative LeadNow platform for teacher professional development recognized as one of ten top innovations globally addressing the need for scalable and impactful teacher professional development. The World Bank and HundrED have just released a Spotlight Report highlighting the top 10 education innovations supporting in-service teacher…

27 Sep 21

Education in Crisis?

Education in Kenya is in crisis. Yes, another one. Not long after settling back into a (very demanding) school routine to ‘catch up’ on the academic calendar following the COVID school closures, Kenya’s education reform, and its new Competency Based Curriculum (CBC) are under fire. No doubt the culmination of…