Category: Lebanon

Developing a Holistic Approach in Education to Improve Students’ Wellbeing and Academic Achievement in Lebanon

Faces of children, including a beautiful smiling girl, sitting in their neighborhood in the old city of Sidon, Lebanon.

Guest blog by Hilda El Khoury, IPP’23 The main key learnings from this course were many; among them I can name “taking risks on things we care about, and disappointing people in a way they can absorb”. This message became a continuous alarm for me, I keep assessing what could be the threshold of people…Continue Reading Developing a Holistic Approach in Education to Improve Students’ Wellbeing and Academic Achievement in Lebanon

Improving Students’ Wellbeing and Learning through a Social Emotional Learning Policy in Lebanon 

Children in school smiling

Guest blog by Nahla Harb, IPP’23 The IPP course was very enriching and a life changing experience for me. The key learnings encompassed a wide range of tips of knowing what and knowing how, starting from PDIA, a creative approach in policy making to the communication and the leadership styles. …Continue Reading Improving Students’ Wellbeing and Learning through a Social Emotional Learning Policy in Lebanon 

Failure of Effective Curriculum Implementation in Lebanon

Group meeting

Guest blog by Hyam Ishac, IPP’23 I have been assigned as the president of the center of educational research and development (CRDP) for more than 1 year. From that time until now, I am leading the process of curriculum development in Lebanon. During this time, CRDP, with different stakeholders were working on developing the national SEL…Continue Reading Failure of Effective Curriculum Implementation in Lebanon

Implementing the Social Emotional Learning in the Lebanese Educational Curriculum

A classroom

Guest blog by Tania Tannous, IPP ’23 As a school psychologist, responsible of child protection, my love language is to take care of students in the school environment. I used to work on two referral axes, the first one being able to spread awareness about some emotional social and cultural subjects and the second one…Continue Reading Implementing the Social Emotional Learning in the Lebanese Educational Curriculum