One Year of The Luminos Method Book: Building a Movement
People often ask us how children in Luminos classrooms go from not recognizing letters of the alphabet to reading short stories within a single school year. A year ago, we published our answer—The Luminos Method: The Secret to Unlocking the Light of Learning in Every Child.
The Luminos Method sets out the nine core elements behind a decade of joyful, foundational learning, from phonics for first-generation readers to teacher-led assessment and community partnerships. It distills what we have learned alongside children, teachers, and communities in Ethiopia, Liberia, Ghana, and beyond.
Inclusion by Design: How Luminos Creates Materials That Help Every Child Learn
World Inclusion Day is a moment to reflect on what it means to meaningfully include all children in education systems. Getting children into classrooms matters, but what happens once they are there matters just as much. That starts with instruction that works for every child.
From Classrooms to Systems: Ten Years of Joyful Learning in Ethiopia
Many education programs that work in a few hundred classrooms falter in a few thousand. Researchers call it “voltage drop”: as a program scales, training gets thinner, support stretches further, and learning gains decline. How can an effective...
Building Better Evidence by Inviting Debate: Reflections from the Inaugural Bilingual Advisory Council Convening
By: Meredith McCormac, Director of Programs, Luminos Fund When we launched the Bilingual Boost program, funded by the Gates Foundation, we set out to explore a challenging question: How can education systems help children successfully learn to read and understand...
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