In a recent piece with The PIE, Global Program Director Ana Cubillo shares what inspires her most about her work, and what she’s learned so far in her role.
🔗 Explore the article: thepienews.com/ana-cubillo-...
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Children don’t all learn in the same way – and education gets better when we understand why.
This month’s newsletter looks at LEVANTE, our research network on learning variability. Its 2026 Call for Proposals has opened & 8 new research sites have joined the network.
Read: bit.ly/4cBmYI5
In the latest exhibition from our Learning Outreach initiative, @dmolearning.bsky.social brings the water cycle to life. Watch how VR is being used to make invisible scientific processes visible.💧
🔗 Discover more: www.museumoflearning.org/stories/can-...
#ScienceEducation
Our #LEVANTE initiative has launched its 2026 Call for Proposals!
Join us in advancing global research on variability in children’s learning and development.
🔗 Learn more and how to apply: jacobsfoundation.org/levante-open...
Last week at #CIES2026, our team was in San Francisco looking at how fragmented global education evidence can be consolidated – and what funders can do to make grantmaking more legible to researchers.
Learn more: conference.cies.us
The LEVANTE Advisory Committee recently met to reflect on the initiative's progress in collecting data that captures learning and development variabilities among children.
Find out more about #LEVANTE: levante-network.org
And stay tuned for their Call for Proposals — launching next week! 📣
School meals can help children focus, attend school more regularly, and thrive, while also supporting families and local food systems.
🇨🇮 See how CLEF partners are testing this in Côte d’Ivoire: www.clefcoalition.com/en/school-fe...
#CLEF #SchoolMeals #CotedIvoire
Changing how evidence is used across a system takes time.
Tina Cassidy, Country Director Switzerland, laid the groundwork in 2025 for a system-wide approach to evidence use.
Now her focus is on embedding this across the system.
Learn more🔗 jacobsfoundation.org/member/tina-...
#StaffSpotlight
We’re delighted to welcome Christoph Schenk to our Board of Trustees.
His expertise in asset management and investment strategy will be key to shaping our focus on innovative financing and multi-sector partnerships.
Read more 🔗 jacobsfoundation.org/christoph-sc...
🇨🇮 In Côte d’Ivoire, CLEF is testing how school meals can help more children learn and stay nourished, while making the conditions around learning more reliable.
🔗 www.clefcoalition.com/en/school-fe...
#Education #SDG4 #SchoolFeeding
Read how CEPE is impacting national and regional education systems in Colombia: us11.campaign-archive.com?u=2b5cebf44d...
#CEPE
🇨🇴 Our team was in Colombia this month to advance the CEPE initiative. It was an opportunity to engage on the ground with partners, funders, academic stakeholders, and to align on strategic priorities.
Dr. Esinam Avornyo, LEARN program scholar, is exploring how context shapes learning – and makes evidence useful in real-world settings.
Discover more in her blog 🔗 globaltiesforchildren.nyu.edu/learn-projec...
#LEARN
The latest edition of What We Learn is here!
🇨🇴 This month: insights from Colombia, where CEPE is connecting evidence to decision-making across education systems.
📩 us11.campaign-archive.com?u=2b5cebf44d...
#WhatWeLearn #Education
Evidence is everywhere. Making it usable is the real challenge.
At #CIES2026, we’ll explore how evidence can become more actionable across education systems.
🗓️ Join us on April 1 | 2:45–4:00pm
Learn more 🔗 conference.cies.us
#LearningScience #GlobalEducation
Last week at UNESCO HQ, we joined a high-level policy debate convened under the French G7 Presidency, to drive global conversations on supporting sustainable education financing.
👉 Read: jacobsfoundation.org/sustainable-...
#G7 #SDG4
🏫 How can education systems better support learners with diverse needs?
The UK’s SEND reform proposals raise important questions about implementation, evidence, and classroom realities.
New analysis from BOLD explores what comes next 🔗 boldscience.org/the-promise-...
#SEND #EducationReform
🌱 #Education doesn’t come from great ideas alone. It also depends on the systems that allow those ideas to take root, grow, and endure.
This message underpinned Dr Samuel Kembou, PhD's keynote at the Doing Good Doing Well conference in Barcelona.
Learn more about the event 🔗 www.ieserbc.net
Dr. Hans Cabra, LEARN program scholar, is researching how access to durable goods affects children’s education and school attendance.
Discover more in his blog 🔗 globaltiesforchildren.nyu.edu/learn-projec...
#EducationResearch
🌟 Meet Anabel Altenburg, Program Manager, in our monthly staff spotlight series celebrating the people behind our work.
Her 2025 highlight: building momentum for a stronger global EdTech evidence ecosystem, including the EdFIRST Network convening.
Learn more 🔗 jacobsfoundation.org/member/anabe...
Teachers: have you used @dmolearning.bsky.social with your students? If so, we’d love your feedback. This short, anonymous survey (3–5 mins) will help improve teaching resources and the platform experience.
📝 www.surveymonkey.com/r/HS26KBZ
#TeachingResources #Education
🇨🇴 For Camilo Andrés Morales, our newly appointed Country Director for Colombia, the year ahead is focused on advancing systemic approaches to foundational learning.
Discover more insights from our Country Directors in What We Learn 🔗 us11.campaign-archive.com?e=95da13761a...
🔀 Where do participants, policy, and practice intersect?
@catherinealebel.bsky.social, Associate Professor at @ucalgary.bsky.social, explains how her #LEVANTE project findings are already driving tangible changes beyond the classroom.
Learn more 🔗 levante-network.org/partners/uni...
#Education
🇬🇭 Karen Shormeh Sai, our new Country Director for Ghana, is driving evidence-based transformation in teaching & learning, strengthening the national education system.
Discover more insights from our Country Directors in What We Learn 🔗 us11.campaign-archive.com?e=95da13761a...
🗣️ Tomorrow, our Global Lead for Learning & Evidence, Samuel Kembou, will deliver the closing keynote talk at the Doing Good Doing Well Conference in Barcelona.
His address will spotlight how cross-sector partnerships drive lasting, system-level change.
🔗 www.ieserbc.net
#Education
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In the latest edition of What We Learn, our Country Directors for Colombia, Ghana, and Switzerland share what’s ahead for 2026 — and how they’re strengthening the link between evidence, policy, and practice to advance children's learning.
🔗 boldscience.org/the-genetici...
#Evidence #LearningVariability
📚 Children aren’t one-size-fits-all and education shouldn’t be either.
In a recent @boldinsights.bsky.social interview, Jacobs Foundation Research Fellow @rosacheesman.bsky.social explains how genetics can help identify the school & family environments that help different children thrive.
The piece shines a light on how our innovative financing mechanisms are supporting private-public-philanthropic partnerships and evidence-based initiatives that drive sustainable change.
🔗 bit.ly/4azSDZA
#Education #Partnerships
