Early in my teaching career, I was filled with boundless enthusiasm. I wanted every student to conquer the mountain of learning alongside me. I spent evenings crafting lessons, offering extra help after school, and reteaching concepts to those who seemed lost. Soon, my classroom resembled the base camp of Mount Rwenzori, overflowing with students seeking clarity. Exhausted and overwhelmed, I …
“Teachers, what do you do when students faint in your class?”, Genevieve screamed as she entered the staff common room. The frantic look on her face and the dishevelled hair was enough to tell the story of the storm that was raging in her heart. Genevieve was an intern teacher who was in the middle of her lesson when the …
It is 2am in the night and I am grading the last of the student’s scripts. The night is no longer as young as it was when I started. The children all sleeping, the birds and the cars too. The day has not been the easiest, neither have the weeks preceding it. Considering the numbers of the children that I …
As a teacher, I had always been passionate about what I did, giving my all, at every task assigned to me. I started as a novice teacher who did not know what to do but was excited to learn. I sought for knowledge wherever I could find it; I consulted my senior colleagues, read, and attended seminars and conferences; I …
I graduated from one of the best universities in Uganda with a Bachelor of science with an education degree. Set to go and teach biology and chemistry to secondary school students, I was excited to embark on this journey. Reality hit when I reached the school and found a total mismatch between what I had studied at the university and …
As I type, I am a passive listener on a zoom meeting with three new Partners from Uganda and Kenya. Our Partners on the continent of Africa do not have physical offices in TTT so they themselves become the “office” as they begin to prepare months in advance to host a seminar. Partners go through a seven-week remote training program …
We like detail. We delight in being specific. We thrive on excellent communication.That’s who we are at TTT. Our vision is to transform education.It might be too broad. Too lofty.So, let’s communicate our vision with precision. We want to transform classroom instruction with more effective teachers. It’s in the classrooms that the “magic” happens. And I argue that this is …
If you have read the news about Haiti in the past few months, you have read of a brutal Presidential assassination, a devastating 7.2 earthquake and terrorizing gang violence. If you have dug deeper in the news, you may also have read about countless kidnappings for ransom, damaging fuel shortages, and very few COVID vaccines. All hope would seem lost …
You might notice that I tend to wrestle with our challenges. The question of why we do what we do in TTT matters. And, what I believe about who we are doing it for matters just as much. Try to imagine one of your former school teachers. What you probably took for granted when you went to school every day …
Through many experiences, I have learned to hold both the broken and the beautiful in my hands. And since my last blog post, TTT has experienced both the broken and beautiful. On December 26, 2020, our TTT staff experienced the unexpected, tragic loss of a beloved staff member in Haiti, Emmanuel Toussaint. Emmanuel was an Assistant Operations Coordinator for TTT …
