The Good School Toolkit

The Good School Toolkit contains a set of ideas and tools that will help educators explore what a good school is and guide them through a process that will help them create one. It was developed with the help of schools in Uganda and deliberately focuses on ideas and activities that do not require specific financial resources — just commitment and perseverance to create something extraordinary.

The Good School Toolkit has four interrelated objectives that address development of the collective vision, creation of the learning environment, implementation of a more progressive learning methodology and addressing the governance of the school.

These are:

• Form a collective vision for what a Good School is and identify the knowledge and skills needed to create it
• Create a healthy psychological and physical environment within which learning can happen efficiently
  
• Create a teaching methodology that will help teachers teach and students learn
• Create fair and respectable policies that guide the entire school’s behaviour and actions. The Toolkit is for educators (teachers, school administrators, parents, school governance officers) who are involved in the day-to-day running of a school