#38 Caitlin Baron & Alemayehu Hailu Gebre, Luminos Fund: Packing 3 Years of Learning into 10 Months

The Learnit Podcast

The Luminos Fund is an education non-profit that aims to get the most marginalized students into mainstream schools in Ethiopia, Liberia, Lebanon, and Ghana. Caitlin Baron and Alemayehu Hailu Gebre shed light on how the accelerated learning program packs 3 years of learning into 10 months by building a learning mindset and involving the community in a successful, joyful learning process.Show Notes:More about Luminos: https://luminosfund.org/UNESCO’s research on the number of teachers required to teach those out of school: http://uis.unesco.org/en/document/world-needs-almost-69-million-new-teachers-reach-2030-education-goalsFavourite books about learning: ‘Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning’, Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, Mark A. McDaniel and ‘The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures’, Anne FadimanFavourite books not about learning: ‘The Sign and the Seal: The Quest for the Lost Ark of the Covenant’, Graham Hancock & ‘Homegoing’, Yaa Gyasi