RFP for Third-party Baseline Assessment for Student Outcomes at Dignitas Project

The Leadership Institute, our flagship program, is comprised of four key activities delivered over a multi-year partnership:

o Leadership Institute (LI): This intensive 3-week classroom-based training introduces ideas and concepts that empower educators to be inspiring leaders

and teachers. The aim is to shift beliefs, attitudes, and values so that educators see the potential in their schools and students.

o Coaching: Our professional coaches provide personalized, in-class mentoring to Leadership Training Institute fellows. Coaching focuses on practical applications of skills and concepts learned in training to ensure they are implemented in the classroom.

o Workshops: Our workshops provide targeted professional development for both school leaders and teachers and build more complex knowledge and skills on top of the foundation created in the LI.

o Infrastructure Support: Many schools in marginalized communities lack the basic level of infrastructure necessary to improve education quality.

Short-term Outcomes:

1. School leaders have the mindsets and skills (self-efficacy) to see themselves as change agents in their communities, schools, and broader lives. (Target: 1 year)

2. School leaders have the mindsets and skills to build the collaborative leadership of their teachers. (Target: 1 year)

3. School leaders see the benefits of financial transparency and are models of financial accountability. (Target: 1.5 year)

4. School leaders are models of effective pedagogy and have the beliefs and skills to develop teachers’ instructional and pedagogical practice. (Target: 1.5 years)

5. School leaders believe in the value of systems and can effectively plan (and identify exemplars) for improving systems in their schools. (Target: 1.5 year)

6. School leaders have the skills and structures/spaces to advocate for and coordinate their schools needs and continuous improvement. (Target: 2 year)

7. School leaders are part of a community of lifelong learners/education movement. (Target: 2 year)

Long-term Outcomes:

1. School leaders are joyful and inspired in their jobs.

2. Teachers believe in all students’ ability to achieve.

3. Teachers have the skills/tools to help students achieve.

4. Teachers are taking on more leadership roles and see themselves as change agents (self-efficacy) in their schools and communities (e.g. starting high quality new schools in underserved communities).

5. Partner schools are spaces of continuous learning and improvement.

Impact:

Students from underserved communities are prepared to thrive in life (i.e., have skills for entrepreneurship & problem-solving, as well as self-efficacy and mindsets that they can achieve).

1. Students are better critical thinkers.

2. Students have gained growth mindset.

3. Students have better relationships with their teachers.

4. Students have self-efficacy.

5. Students are performing better on academic assessments

OBJECTIVES

Dignitas is seeking Requests for Proposals from third-party entities to conduct a study of how our programs impact the students we serve. We are interested in better tracking and understanding our impact on students in our partner schools.

• Educational outcomes such as test scores, school attendance, successful graduation to secondary school, and others

• “Soft skills” such as growth mindset, emotional intelligence, and resilience SCOPE OF THE WORK

A baseline of our new school cohort of 21 schools needs to be performed by July 2017. A mid-line should be completed in July 2018 and a final assessment in July 2019.

Preference will be given to groups with regional (East Africa) and industry (education, school leadership) expertise