🌟 Meet Anabel Altenburg, Program Manager, in our monthly staff spotlight series celebrating the people behind our work.
Her 2025 highlight: building momentum for a stronger global EdTech evidence ecosystem, including the EdFIRST Network convening.
Learn more 🔗 jacobsfoundation.org/member/anabe...
Teachers: have you used @dmolearning.bsky.social with your students? If so, we’d love your feedback. This short, anonymous survey (3–5 mins) will help improve teaching resources and the platform experience.
📝 www.surveymonkey.com/r/HS26KBZ
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🇨🇴 For Camilo Andrés Morales, our newly appointed Country Director for Colombia, the year ahead is focused on advancing systemic approaches to foundational learning.
Discover more insights from our Country Directors in What We Learn 🔗 us11.campaign-archive.com?e=95da13761a...
🔀 Where do participants, policy, and practice intersect?
@catherinealebel.bsky.social, Associate Professor at @ucalgary.bsky.social, explains how her #LEVANTE project findings are already driving tangible changes beyond the classroom.
Learn more 🔗 levante-network.org/partners/uni...
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🇬🇭 Karen Shormeh Sai, our new Country Director for Ghana, is driving evidence-based transformation in teaching & learning, strengthening the national education system.
Discover more insights from our Country Directors in What We Learn 🔗 us11.campaign-archive.com?e=95da13761a...
🗣️ Tomorrow, our Global Lead for Learning & Evidence, Samuel Kembou, will deliver the closing keynote talk at the Doing Good Doing Well Conference in Barcelona.
His address will spotlight how cross-sector partnerships drive lasting, system-level change.
🔗 www.ieserbc.net
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In the latest edition of What We Learn, our Country Directors for Colombia, Ghana, and Switzerland share what’s ahead for 2026 — and how they’re strengthening the link between evidence, policy, and practice to advance children's learning.
📚 Children aren’t one-size-fits-all and education shouldn’t be either.
In a recent @boldinsights.bsky.social interview, Jacobs Foundation Research Fellow @rosacheesman.bsky.social explains how genetics can help identify the school & family environments that help different children thrive.
The piece shines a light on how our innovative financing mechanisms are supporting private-public-philanthropic partnerships and evidence-based initiatives that drive sustainable change.
🔗 bit.ly/4azSDZA
#Education #Partnerships
📚 #ICYMI: In a recent Swissinfo article, our Co-CEO Simon Sommer explains the incentives behind why companies might choose to invest in their country’s education system.
ICYMI: The latest issue of @ssir.org highlights the TRECC program, funded by the Jacobs Foundation, and how it has helped governments pilot and scale approaches for improving education access and quality in Côte d’Ivoire 🇨🇮
Read more 🔗 ssir.org/articles/ent...
#FoundationalLearning #SystemsChange
🌟 Meet Annie Brookman-Byrne, Editor-in-Chief of @boldinsights.bsky.social, in our new monthly staff spotlight series – featuring the people who help bring evidence to life.
Her 2025 highlight: BOLD’s free 5-part “Learning to Thrive” course for adults supporting children.
Learn more🔗 bit.ly/3MscEcr
The @dmolearning.bsky.social's new exhibition shows how technology can support learning. 📚
In one of its latest stories, VR learning resources let us explore places and processes that are impossible to see in real life.
🔍 Explore the story: www.museumoflearning.org/stories/can-...
#VR #AI
🧠 Why do we learn differently? We remember differently.
Dr Zoe Ngo of @mpib-berlin.bsky.social explains why the key to better understanding learning variability is through investigating memory variability.
Learn more about LEVANTE 🔗 jacobsfoundation.org/activity/the...
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Jacobs CIFAR Research Fellow Dr Margherita Malanchini is examining how school, family, and peer environments interact with genetic risk to shape educational outcomes – a crucial step toward better, targeted interventions.
🎥 Watch the video and learn more about her work: bit.ly/3MlXuFu
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🏫 @boldinsights.bsky.social speaks with Jacobs CIFAR Research Fellow Chunyan Yang about building inclusive, emotionally safe schools for all.
🔗 boldscience.org/the-school-p...
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Evidence intermediaries are invited to test the global repository and help shape high-impact evidence for education policy and practice.
🔗 Apply now: bit.ly/3Z8v98u
#CallForApplications #Education #EvidenceUse
📢 Last chance to apply!
Submissions of Expressions of Interest for testing the Synthesis-Ready Evidence Repository will close on 29 January. 🗓️
🌟 Thrilled to announce Camilo Andrés Morales and Karen Shormeh Sai as our new Country Directors for Colombia and Ghana.
Their appointments will deepen our partnerships & impact, helping every child access quality learning opportunities.
👉 Learn more: jacobsfoundation.org/the-jacobs-f...
📚 Tomorrow is the International Day of Education
Today, 250 million children and young people are out of school. It’s time to reimagine education, together with young people. At the Digital Museum of Learning, we create free learning resources that spark curiosity and agency.
#ICYMI A recent @voxdev.bsky.social blog co-authored by the Jacobs Foundation makes the case for investing in the systems that connect evidence to policy through local capacity, trusted intermediaries, and long-term institutional learning.
🔗 Read in full: voxdev.org/topic/educat...
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⏳ Two weeks left to apply for the Jacobs CIFAR Research Fellowship!
The Fellowship supports early- and mid-career researchers advancing evidence on how children and young people learn across contexts and disciplines.
📅 Deadline: 2 Feb 2026
🔗 Apply: bit.ly/45fKdVp
#Education #Evidence
📬 Our newest What We Learn newsletter includes open calls, new partnerships, and reflections on building stronger links between research and education policy.
🔗 Read in full: us11.campaign-archive.com?u=2b5cebf44d...
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🗓️ Apply by 3 PM UTC, 29 Jan 2026 🔗 www.wwhge.org/what-we-do/i...
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📢 Applications are open!
This is an opportunity for evidence intermediaries to help test and shape an early-stage evidence repository, supporting policy- and practice-relevant education decision-making.
🛎️ Book a 15-minute slot with the help desk 🔗 www.wwhge.org/what-we-do/i...
As state-led aid retreats and blended finance models fall short, innovative co-funding models are helping close the global development gap.
Discover how our co-funding mechanisms are transforming education systems around the world 🌍
Read 🔗 www.swissinfo.ch/eng/internat...
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In 2026, we'll be sharing our What We Learn newsletter every month, instead of quarterly.
📬 Stay up to date with the latest evidence, research & partnerships shaping children’s learning.
Subscribe today! 🔗 jacobsfoundation.org/newsletter/
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Catherine Lebel, Associate Professor at @ucalgary.bsky.social, explains how her #LEVANTE project findings are already driving tangible changes beyond the classroom.
Learn more 🔗 jacobsfoundation.org/levante-welc...
#EducationPolicy #CognitiveDevelopment #Policy
