Education Reform
Often a government has a specific area of reform, and they call on the World Bank to provide some expertise. They will organize teams of staff & consultants with niche knowledge to help the government develop a strategy that best fits their national needs and priorities. Andrew Trembley was part of the World Bank's education team, specializing in teacher policy and school financing reform.
Pacific Benchmarking for Education Results
Country Profiles
Papua New Guinea; Samoa; Solomon Islands
The Secretariat of the Pacific Community organized a regional collaboration between the Ministries of Education of Samoa, Papua New Guinea, and Solomon Islands. All three governments were eager to enact major reforms to their education systems, and collaborated with specialists from several education topics. I facilitated a multi-day retreat, giving them a framework around which they described their current situation and they identified their own national priorities, learn from their peer countries, and develop a reform plan. We co-authored three country profiles describing their current situation and outlining a reform path.
Global Report on Teaching As a Profession: Requirements for Equitable Quality Education
I was on a team that developed an insightful framework for understanding teacher policy. The UNESCO-housed International Task Force on Teachers for Education sought to use it to study the teacher systems of 27 countries and write a global synopsis of their findings. I led a weeklong session with a team of 30 researchers to refine the framework and help them develop an appropriate methodology for their work. While we began with the conceptual framework already designed, I helped them codify a methodology to measure and describe formal policy vs. local implementation gaps.