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 …
A Refreshed Revision
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 …
They See Light
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 …
For the learners
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 …
Unexpected
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 …
You are not ready yet…
In the early years of TTT, I had the pleasure to meet with a college professor for valuable feedback as we kicked the tires on the material we wrote for our Haitian peers. Most of the time when we met, she would say, “You are not ready yet but when you are, I have someone I want you to meet.” …
Supply and Demand
Participants are plentiful when you build strong partnerships with organizations actively involved in the education field throughout Haiti. Through these partnerships, we have been able to provide professional development training to over 160 schools across Haiti over the past four years. Let me introduce you to three of our partners… FEPH (Protestant Federation of Schools in Haiti) is an educational …