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No Box Initiative

Kaduna, Nigeria
Joined January 2021

No Box Initiative acts to ensure inclusive education by training teachers in low income communities to better academic outcomes and endure every child attains an excellent education.

Presence in: Nigeria
Focus: Education

We keep learning about alarming statistics pertinent to educational inequality some are more concerned about what their actions do to change those statistics, for the better. No Box Initiative is one of such that act to ensure inclusive learning in classrooms. Doing this in an effective way requires a strategic and systematic approach – the logic that gave birth to the Teaching Without The Box Project at No Box Initiative. The initiative was inspired by the Mother Organization, Teach For Nigeria as a Be The Change Project – which is an intrinsic part of the Teach For Nigeria Fellowship where fellows engage in leading projects to tackle educational inequality in diverse ways.
The team, all Fellows, were posted to LGEA Unguwan Dosa Community in Kaduna State. The school faced several challenges that include; lack of continuing teacher development, lack of knowledge and approaches to achieving classroom inclusion, declining academic performance in overcrowded classrooms due to lack of applications of inclusive strategies, decreasing attendance and enrollment (especially for girls) and increase in dropout rates. The Fellows acted to change the narrative by breaking the proverbial “box”.

With the primary aim to ensure inclusive quality education and improve learning outcomes, the Teaching Without The Box Project targeted these aforementioned challenges by engaging in teacher trainings on inclusive approach to instruction with a highly specialized set of three core working modules which include; Special Education Needs (SEN) Module, Classroom Culture Module and Emotional Intelligence Module. The initiative also engaged in advocacy and sensitization on the need for community participation in the project and also play their roles in bridging the gap via the Schools Based Management Committee (SBMC) and KADSUBEB. In the year 2020, the project pilot has ensured the training of over 1500 teachers who have direct reach of over 11,200 learners.