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School Improvement Division (SID)

SID's mission is to achieve sustainable systemic education improvement through strong partnership and evidence-based interventions.

SID works to strengthen the capacity of education institutions and departments to deliver quality education to children and youth, concentrating on system-level planning and enhancing the capacity of the education system to integrate planning and delivery.


SID’s work is underpinned by three key concerns:

 
  • Tackling educational challenges systemically with a view to sustainability
  • Forming partnerships with key stakeholders to ensure projects are embedded and taken forward 
  • Using evidence to guide planning and to measure success
     

In the school improvement arena, it focuses on developing and testing systemic education development models that provide replicable solutions to the national education challenges. It makes use of a school improvement model developed on the basis of previous experience and lessons learnt implementing the large scale, multi-year systemic Khanyisa school improvement project in Limpopo. SID’s current flagship school development projects in the North West and Eastern Cape provinces provide further examples of this work. For more information on the model and its application, read the document Sustainable School Improvement: a partnership between the state, the private sector and civil society. 
 

SID’s activities include:

  • Designing and implementing education development demonstration projects focusing on school improvement.
  • Providing education improvement tools and strategies for schools and their communities.
  • Developing the education planning task with a view to improving the planning function in the education subsystems, namely education departments, districts, circuits and schools.
     

For further information Contact Michelle Mathey: mmathey@jet.org.za