CONTINUOUS AND ACCELERATED LEARNING (CAL) Practical Knowledge Tools to Build Resilient Education Systems The COVID-19 pandemic caused massive disruption in education systems around the world. Countries were forced to swiftly implement remote learning approaches at scale. Can the lessons learned from the response to the pandemic serve as a launching pad to the new post-COVID-19 world? How can countries use this knowledge to build resilient systems that remain equitable, effective, and efficient amid future shocks? This interactive PDF contributes to answering these questions. It showcases the body of knowledge developed by the Continuous and Accelerated Learning (CAL) program to support policymakers, researchers, and national and international organizations in the design and implementation of plans to ensure learning continuity and acceleration. The PDF highlights knowledge tools developed under five lines of work: Education Technology (EdTech), Remote Formative Assessment Solutions, Read@Home, Structured Lesson Plans, and Technology for Teaching (T4T). These knowledge tools were developed on an ongoing basis between 2020 and 2022. As the pandemic evolves and continues to cause strain in education systems, it is evident that the tools remain relevant two years into the crisis and will be essential to build resilient education systems in the future. START THE NAVIGATION HOME | ABOUT CAL  | KNOWLEDGE TOOLS | RESOURCES CONTINUOUS AND ACCELERATED LEARNING (CAL) ABOUT THE CONTINUOUS AND ACCELERATED LEARNING PROGRAM The World Bank’s Education Global Practice launched the Continuous and Accelerated Learning (CAL) program at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic to develop and pilot knowledge tools to enable education systems to continue delivering learning and to accelerate the recovery of lost learning as schools re-opened. 1.6 CAL has been developed with financial support from the Global Partnership billion for Education (GPE) and in partnership with UNESCO and UNICEF. students affected by school closures due to COVID-19 CAL’s main goal is to keep 70% of 10-year olds globally children learning by supporting could experience learning poverty the development, dissemination, and delivery at scale of new and existing global and regional learning continuity approaches. $17 trillion earnings that could be lost by this generation due to learning losses 2 HOME | ABOUT CAL  | KNOWLEDGE TOOLS | RESOURCES CONTINUOUS AND ACCELERATED LEARNING (CAL) CAL’s knowledge tools will continue to be relevant beyond the COVID-19 pandemic Since the pandemic started in Delivering Assessing Reaching Preventing Supporting 2020, CAL’s knowledge tools remote and students’ learning students with learning poverty teachers’ have been helping policymakers hybrid learning remotely no access to from increasing professional technology development manage learning continuity, and design and implement education programs that can help improve and accelerate learning. CONTINUITY AND ACCELERATION OF LEARNING RECOVERY AND RESILIENCE Measuring Supporting Improving Supporting the learning teachers efficiency of home literacy The knowledge tools can help countries gaps learning environment address key needs during the recovery phase and their efforts to build resilient, effective, equitable education systems equipped to face future shocks. 3 HOME | ABOUT CAL  | KNOWLEDGE TOOLS | RESOURCES CONTINUOUS AND ACCELERATED LEARNING (CAL) KNOWLEDGE TOOLS The knowledge tools address five of the most pressing challenge areas in education systems. EdTech How to deliver remote and hybrid learning effectively? Through five lines of work, CAL is supporting learning Remote Formative Assessment continuity and acceleration, and contributing to building How to assess whether students are learning remotely? resilient education systems. Read@Home How to reach students with no access to technology? Structured Lesson Plans How to accelerate learning to reduce learning poverty?  Technology for Teaching (T4T) How to use technology to support teachers’ development? 4 HOME | ABOUT CAL  | KNOWLEDGE TOOLS | RESOURCES CONTINUOUS AND ACCELERATED LEARNING (CAL) EdTech Remote Formative Assessment Read@Home Structured Lesson Plans Technology for Teaching (T4T) EdTech How to deliver remote learning effectively? Remote learning is becoming the new normal as a result of the pandemic. Delivering remote learning effectively, especially to those students with poor access to broadband or digital devices is a priority. The EdTech team under the CAL program designed knowledge tools to help policymakers plan and design remote/hybrid learning strategies that: » Effectively use EdTech remote and hybrid learning solutions, including TV, radio, online platforms, mobile. » Help policymakers apply the five principles of the World Bank’s EdTech approach when developing solutions: Ask Why, Design and Act at Scale For All, Empower Teachers, Engage the Ecosystem, and Be Data-Driven. » Combine and integrate the solutions optimally and seamlessly. » Ensure holistic implementation. » Procure solutions cost-efficiently. 5 HOME | ABOUT CAL  | KNOWLEDGE TOOLS | RESOURCES CONTINUOUS AND ACCELERATED LEARNING (CAL) EdTech Remote Formative Assessment Read@Home Structured Lesson Plans Technology for Teaching (T4T) Knowledge Packs Resource Packs Studies • Assistive Technologies World Bank-UNICEF resource packs to support remote learning: • Cloud for Education • Introduction • Devices for Education Remote Learning During • Assessment the Global School Lockdown: • Digital Teaching and Learning Content Multi-country Lessons • Digital • Edu Radio • Edu TV • Edu TV • Edu Radio • EMIS 2.0 • Mobile • Innovation Ecosystems • Print Multi-Country Lessons: • LMS for Education Interactive Document • Mobile Distance & Hybrid Solutions • Personalized and Adaptive Learning • Phone-based Formative Assessment • Procurement Remote Learning during COVID-19: Lessons from • Remote Learning Responses to COVID-19 Today, Principles for Tomorrow • Teachers’ Skills Framework • Technology for Literacy Click on each title to read more Click here to close pop-up x 6 HOME | ABOUT CAL  | KNOWLEDGE TOOLS | RESOURCES CONTINUOUS AND ACCELERATED LEARNING (CAL) EdTech Remote Formative Assessment Read@Home Structured Lesson Plans Technology for Teaching (T4T) Remote Formative Assessment How to assess whether students are learning remotely? Assessing what and whether students are learning is one of the top challenges related to remote learning, especially in low-resource contexts. Basic mobile phone features such as short message services Knowledge Tools (SMS), phone calls, and interactive voice response (IVR) technologies • Global Package of Remote Formative Assessment Tools can be effective to assess students, particularly where technology is scarce. • Pilot Evaluation Report The Learning Assessment Platform (LeAP) team under the CAL • Toolkit on Remote Formative Assessment Using Basic Mobile Technologies. Includes: program developed and piloted phone-based remote formative assessment tools to help policymakers design and implement plans • Landscape Review Database to evaluate students’ learning remotely. The tools: • Phone-Based Formative Assessment Feasibility Template » Provide elements for the feasibility of implementation and scale- up of phone-based assessment solutions. • Guidance Note on Phone-based Formative Assessment » Present existing experiences and their key features. • Psychometric Considerations for Implementing Phone-based Learning Assessmentst » Give psychometric considerations for implementing phone-based assessment solutions. Click on each title to read more Click here to close pop-up x » Provide a template to evaluate the enabling conditions for each solution. 7 HOME | ABOUT CAL  | KNOWLEDGE TOOLS | RESOURCES CONTINUOUS AND ACCELERATED LEARNING (CAL) EdTech Remote Formative Assessment Read@Home Structured Lesson Plans Technology for Teaching (T4T) Read@Home How to reach students with no access to technology? The pandemic disrupted learning for millions of students in hard-to-reach homes with limited or no access to technology. Expanding access to books for low-resource families helps ensure Knowledge Tools learning continuity and encourages parents and caregivers to support children’s learning at home. • Book Supply Chain Analysis: Republic of Marshall Islands • Guidance Note on the Production of Reading Materials The Read@Home team under the CAL program developed knowledge tools to help policymakers: • Guidance Note on Using the Bidding Document for Books • Incoterms and Insurance. Guidance for World Bank » Identify and contextualize quality reading materials for Procurement of Textbooks and Reading Books use in homes. • Mozambique: 10 Success Factors in the Procurement » Design interventions to provide support to parents and of Teaching and Learning Materials caregivers to engage with children’s learning. • Read@Home Materials Guidance » Design cost-efficient book supply chains. Click on each title to read more Click here to close pop-up x » Use innovative procurement approaches. » Learn from other countries’ experiences and replicate success factors. 8 HOME | ABOUT CAL  | KNOWLEDGE TOOLS | RESOURCES CONTINUOUS AND ACCELERATED LEARNING (CAL) EdTech Remote Formative Assessment Read@Home Structured Lesson Plans Technology for Teaching (T4T) Structured Lesson Plans How to accelerate learning to reduce learning poverty? School closures resulting from the pandemic are likely to worsen learning poverty and deepen the pre-existing learning crisis. One way to address this issue and accelerate learning is by developing Knowledge Tools lesson plans for teachers —structured pedagogy— to strengthen Early Grade Reading (EGR) curricular and instructional practices. • Early Grade Reading Rainbow: A Quick Guide for Reducing Learning Poverty The Curriculum, Instruction, and Learning (CIL) team under the • Handbook for Literacy Lesson Planning CAL program developed knowledge tools that operationalize the • How Children Learn to Read: Toward Evidence Aligned evidence on structured pedagogy and can help policy makers: Lesson Planning » Revise and improve their models of EGR instruction in the first • How to Provide Effective Reading Instruction three years of schooling. • Structured Lesson Plans for Literacy Instruction: A Compendium of Global Resources » Develop lesson plans whose scope, sequence, and pedagogical practices are aligned with the science of reading. • The Science of Reading: An Analysis of Instructional Materials for Literacy in Brazil » Design EGR lesson plans that build teachers’ skills through structured guidance. Click on each title to read more Click here to close pop-up x 9 HOME | ABOUT CAL  | KNOWLEDGE TOOLS | RESOURCES CONTINUOUS AND ACCELERATED LEARNING (CAL) EdTech Remote Formative Assessment Read@Home Structured Lesson Plans Technology for Teaching (T4T) Technology for Teaching (T4T) How to use technology to support teachers’ development? In most countries, the pandemic caught teachers unprepared to teach remotely using technology. As education systems evolve due to COVID-19, strategies must be put in place to support teachers’ Knowledge Tools professional development and equip them for shocks. A future of • Implementing Effective Teacher Professional remote or hybrid learning calls for high- and low-tech resources to Development Using Technology: A Guidance Note support teachers’ development. on Technology-Based Strategies to Enhance Teaching Practices from across the Globe The T4T team under the CAL program developed various knowledge • Technology for Teacher Professional Development tools to help policymakers: Navigation Guide: A Summary of Methods » Effectively utilize technology to train teachers and equip • Technology for Teaching: Evidence Matrix teachers. Click on each title to read more » Assess and compare contextual and technical factors for Click here to close pop-up x successful implementation of teacher professional development (TPD) programs using technology. » Learn from experiences of TPD that can be scalable and replicated in other countries. 10 HOME | ABOUT CAL  | KNOWLEDGE TOOLS | RESOURCES CONTINUOUS AND ACCELERATED LEARNING (CAL) RESOURCES Blogs Podcasts Events/Videos EdTech EdTech EdTech Remote learning during COVID-19 pandemic: How countries have faced the Understanding the effectiveness of remote and remedial Webinar: Remote learning for resilient education challenge of implementing multichannel education delivery strategies. learning programs: Two new reports. systems. Five lessons from remote learning during COVID-19. Understanding the perceived effectiveness of remote learning Launch of the Twin Reports on remote Learning solutions: Lessons from 18 countries. during COVID-19: Lessons for today, principles for Thinking Inside the ‘Box’: Pakistan Turns to Education TV During COVID-19. Mitigating learning losses and accelerating learning tomorrow. How can countries implement low tech remote learning? Using the experiences from through adaptive learning Edu Radio and Edu TV in Sierra Leone and Pakistan to develop knowledge packs. Exploring the potential of digital infrastructure in education Remote Formative Assessment School hits the airwaves: Sierra Leone turns to education radio as a response to Event: Building and assessing youth skills remotely COVID-19. Selecting, evaluating, and adapting open learning during COVID-19: The experience of Educate! in management systems: the case of ProFuturo What is Hybrid Learning? How can countries get it right? East Africa. Leveraging educational radio for continued teaching and The changing role of teachers and technologies amidst the COVID 19 pandemic: Event: Innovations in phone-based assessments to learning during COVID-19: a conversation with Sierra Leone key findings from a cross-country study. support learning. Teaching Service Commission Remote learning solutions for resilient education systems: Seven resource packs to guide governments and policymakers Rolling out Taleem Ghar (education TV at home) during Lesson Plans COVID-19: A conversation with the provincial government How children learn to read: toward evidence-aligned of Punjab, Pakistan Remote Formative Assessment lesson planning. Assessing outside of the “classroom box” while schools are closed: The potential of World Bank EduTech Podcast phone-based formative assessments to support learning continuity. T4T Remote Formative Assessment T4T: Adapting teacher professional development Are students still learning during COVID-19? Formative assessment can provide programs to low-resource contexts. the answer. Adapting assessments to remote education. T4T: Supporting teachers through blended teacher Read@Home Read@Home professional development programs. Storybooks in Ethiopia: a “Flashlight Beam” of Hope. Expanding Opportunities to Read@Home. T4T: Innovative teacher professional development Three steps to get every child reading. facilitated through technology. T4T How to get children to Read@Home? We have a manual that can help. Key Takeaways from T4T Champions: Technology Crowdsourcing tech-based solutions to teacher professional development: a conversation with two innovators. to facilitate Teacher Professional Development. T4T Supporting Teachers’ Continuous Professional Development Panel discussion: how education systems can How to enhance teacher professional development through technology: Takeaways in an Ever-Changing Classroom: a Conversation with harness tech-based solutions to enhance and scale from innovations across the globe. HundrED. teacher professional development. Supporting teachers using technology: 400 Solutions from 80 Countries. T4T YouTube Playlist How can education systems enhance and scale teacher professional development through the integration of tech-based solutions? 11 Supported with funding from