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

  • Publication date March 6, 2024
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 

Addressing the Labor Shortage in the State of Wyoming 

  • Publication date March 4, 2024
Cityscape in Wyoming

Guest blog by John Jenks, IPP’23 The policy implementation challenge that I worked on during the Implementation Public Policy (IPP) course was the shortage of workforce in the State of Wyoming that discourages new firms from entering the state, inhibits existing firms from growing or expanding, and/or contributes to existing firms closing shop and moving…Continue Reading Addressing the Labor Shortage in the State of Wyoming 

Policy Design and Implementation in Rwanda: Against All the Odds 

  • Publication date February 26, 2024
Rwanda cityscape

Guest blog by Ronald Mutabazi, IPP’23 Friday, 27th May, 2022 looked like another ordinary working day. I was to attend a meeting on projects implementation in the Ministry of Finance. We discussed a long list of them, with boring stories of why their implementation was rated “on-track”, “on-watch”, “off-track”, blah, blah, blah… I had seen…Continue Reading Policy Design and Implementation in Rwanda: Against All the Odds 

Failure of Effective Curriculum Implementation in Lebanon

  • Publication date February 23, 2024
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

Reducing Youth Unemployment in Nigeria

  • Publication date February 21, 2024
Students in Nigeria

Guest blog by Esther Adegunle, IPP ’23 “Two professionals, an Economist and a Brilliant Citizen, catch up to discuss the Economist’s recent educational journey at Harvard Kennedy School and its impact on their work in Nigeria.” Brilliant Citizen: Hello, my Economist, you are looking good and happy! Economist: Thank you, I certainly am happy. Brilliant…Continue Reading Reducing Youth Unemployment in Nigeria

Weaving Health into the Policy Fabric: Dearborn’s Journey Toward Inclusive Governance 

  • Publication date February 19, 2024
Hand arranging wooden blocks with healthcare icons

Guest blog by Ali Abazeed, IPP ’23 Introduction  In the quiet bustle of my hometown of Dearborn, Michigan, the city that put the world on wheels, a new kind of revolution is brewing within the halls of government that brings the same locomotive force as a motor vehicle. Except this vehicle isn’t propelled by four…Continue Reading Weaving Health into the Policy Fabric: Dearborn’s Journey Toward Inclusive Governance 

Implementing the Social Emotional Learning in the Lebanese Educational Curriculum

  • Publication date February 16, 2024
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