RISE Community of Practice

The RISE Community of Practice is now part of the What Works Hub for Global Education. For more information, please visit the Blavatnik School of Government website.

In RISE's Community of Practice, a diverse group of practitioners and organisations seeking to improve education systems come together to share lessons and discuss their experiences driving learning improvements.

What is the RISE Community of Practice?

The RISE Community of Practice is a group of individuals and organisations working to create systemic change to raise children’s learning levels. It provides a space for sharing lessons from implementation to overcome the global learning crisis and drive learning improvements together.

The Community of Practice is made up of more than 100 organisations from 30 countries and 6 continents. It includes individuals from non-governmental organisations (NGOs), civil society organisations (CSOs), think tanks, research institutes, philanthropies, and global development partners.

The community gathers 2-3 times per year to discuss critical themes in global education. It is also a space for members to network, share, and contribute through their collective experiences on the road to raising learning levels for all.

The Community of Practice’s previous meetings include:

Date Event
June 2019 Workshop: RISE Community of Practice Inception
May 2020 Webinar: The politics of information in spurring systems change
November 2020 Workshop: Pathways to integrating foundational skills with national education aspirations
July 2021 Workshop: Supporting shifts in policy and practice to improve foundational learning
November 2021 Workshop: Advocacy for foundational learning
March 2022 Workshop: Building a community-wide campaign for foundational learning
June 2023 Workshop: Identifying FLN Teacher Development Needs to Improve Effectiveness in the Classroom
September 2023 Workshop: Why, What and How scaling science is critical for improving children’s foundational learning in the Global South

For further details, or to express interest in your organisation joining the RISE Community of Practice, contact rise@bsg.ox.ac.uk. You can also read about events held by Community of Practice members in connection with our Focus to Flourish messaging campaign.

Why convene a Community of Practice and what are its goals?

Today, the global education community has greater evidence about education system performance than ever before, yet millions of children do not achieve foundational learning even after spending many years in school. By bringing together individuals and organisations with similar goals but different approaches, thematic focuses, and geographical concentrations, the RISE Community of Practices endeavours to enable the whole of the Community of Practice to be greater than the sum of its parts.

As the RISE Programme has undertaken research on improving learning outcomes, the Community of Practice has provided an invaluable opportunity to incorporate the experiences of practitioners and implementors into the Programme’s understanding of education system change. Likewise, the Community of Practice has provided an opportunity for the RISE Programme to share new evidence and research findings, and ground-truth those findings across contexts. The Community of Practice facilitates sharing of lessons learned and translation of experiences across contexts.

The Community of Practice workshops also demonstrate the power of conversations that happen when a widely varied group of on-the-ground experts in education meet to share their knowledge and draw connections between their experiences. It is the opportunity for this thought-provoking discourse informed by real practice that the Community of Practice endeavours to create, allowing the community to break new ground in its efforts to improve learning worldwide.

Steering Committee

The Community of Practice Steering Committee guides the group’s activities and offers leadership on the group’s direction.

Central Square Foundation logo showing, on the left-hand side, different size yellow circles forming the shape of a comet within a blue square and, on the right-hand side, the blue writing “CENTRAL SQUARE” (top part) “FOUNDATION” (bottom part).
Funda Wande logo showing, in the top part, a book made of orange pages and a black cover and, in the bottom part, the bold black writing “Funda Wande” on top of the smaller grey writing “Reading for Meaning”.
PAL Network logo showing, from left to right, the blue, red and lime green picture of a house with an open door and people inside followed by the writing ‘PAL NETWORK’ in navy blue and lime green on top of the navy blue writing “People’s Action for Learning’. The house can also be seen as an open book.

Community of Practice Members

The RISE Community of Practice includes more than 100 organisations from 30 countries and 6 continents. Some of our member organisations’ logos can be viewed below.

Argentinos por la educación logo showing the black writing “ARGENTINOS” above the writing “por la” in grey followed by the turquoise writing “educación”.
ASER Pakistan logo showing the Pakistan and English writing “ASER” in white inside a blue rectangular. Under the square you can read the word “PAKISTAN” in blue.
Better Purpose logo showing a red diamond shape oriented towards the right-hand side followed by the red writing “better” (top part) and the grey writing “purpose” (bottom part).

CSEA logo showing, on the left-hand side, the writing “CSEA” above the writing “CENTRE FOR THE STUDIES OF THE ECONOMY OF AFRICA” and, on the right-hand side, a blue picture of African continent map and 3 grey curved arrows oriented towards the right-hand side which form a globe.
EC logo showing the black and green writing the Education Commission over a white background
Educate logo showing the amaranth and white picture of a male and female characters hugging each other and forming one body which contains African continent map and is surmounted by a yellow star. The picture is followed by the amaranth writing “EDUCATE” and a final exclamation mark.

Education Development Trust logo showing, on the left-hand side, a blue “E” made of different layers in different grades of blue and, on the right-hand side, the black writing “Education Development Trust”.
Ei logo showing the amaranth writing “Ei” on a white background.
Elige educar logo showing the blue writing “eligeeducar”. The 2 internal 'e' are green and pink and intersect each other.

GSL logo showing, on the left-hand side, a square made of different size triangles (dark blue, orange, red, green and purple), a fuchsia parallelogram and a light blue rhombus and, on the right-hand side, the writing “GLOBAL SCHOOL LEADERS” in blue, orange and purple.
GPE logo showing, from left to right, the blue big writing GPE followed by the smaller Transforming Education on a white background. On letter 'E' there is a green tag.
GRADE logo showing, at the centre, a quadrangular shape made of 3 triangles (the first one is dark green, the second one is light green and the third one is upside down and dark green) followed by the bold dark green writing “GRADE”. Above “GRADE”, there is the smaller green writing “40 years” and below “GRADE”, there is the smaller green writing “Group for the Analysis of Development”.

GRiC logo showing, on the left hand-side a green open book surrounded by a dots circle created by two open brown hands and, on the right hand-side, the big green writing 'GRiC'. Below the picture and writing there is the smaller black writing 'Grassroots nest for innovations and Change'.
Human Capital Africa logo showing the picture of a flower with purple petals and a green pistil followed by the black writing “HUMAN CAPITAL AFRICA”.
IDinsight logo showing the navy blue writing “IDinsight” on a white background.

Indus Action logo showing, from left to right, a white and light blue megaphone, the light blue writing “INDUS ACTION” and the white picture of sound waves.
INOVASI logo showing the blue writing INOVASI (the first “I” is represented as a ruler, the “O” is represented as a smiley face and the last “I” is like a pencil) above the smaller blue writing “Innovation for Indonesia’s School Children Australia Indonesia Partnership”.
Inspirasi logo showing an abstract picture resembling an eagle made of different sizes and colours (orange, purple, red, green, light and dark blue) triangles and one fuchsia parallelogram above the blue and orange writing 'INSPIRASI' over the smaller blue writing 'Inisiatif Kepemimpinan Pendidikan Untuk Raih Prestasi'

International Rescue Committee logo showing a diagonal left-oriented black arrow above the black writing INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE on a yellow background
ITA logo showing the picture of a white lit candle. Its bottom part is made of a Pakistan writing and the flame is yellow and orange and is surrounded by the writing “IDARA-E-TALEEM-O-AAGAHI” forming a semicircle.
Kizazi logo showing the big writing 'kizazi' in orange, black, yellow and green above the smaller black writing 'ENABLING BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS'

LLF logo showing, from left to right, the vertical blue writing ‘LLF’ underlined in red, followed by the black writings ‘Language and Learning Foundation’ and ‘Strong Foundation, Stronger Future’ separated by a thick red horizontal line.
Lemann Foundation logo showing, on the left-hand side, the blue writing ‘Lemann’ above the smaller blue writing ‘FOUNDATION’ and, on the right-hand side, an abstract picture made of dark blue, dark and light green curved lines representing Brazil.
The Luminos Fund logo showing the black centred writing ‘THE LUMINOS FUND’ on a white background. The ‘o’ in ‘LUMINOUS’ is represented as a yellow sun.

LWALA logo showing the black writing ‘LWALA’ followed by a green African continent map picture.
Metis logo showing, from left to right, a teal circular puzzle followed by the lower case teal writing ‘metis’.
My readers logo showing a baby blue square and, inside it, a white book whose pages are kept together by a red and yellow binding above the white writing ‘MYReaders’.

Pakistan Learning Festival logo showing, from left to right, the vertical colourful picture of 4 children with different ethnic origins and the grey writing ‘Pakistan Learning Festival’ in both languages, English and Urdu. The children have different objects in their hands: respectively a kindle appliance to read e-books, a sandglass, a book and a paintbrush.
Pratham logo showing a school amber board with a smiley face on top of the black bold writing ‘Pratham’.
Room to Read logo showing, in the top part, the blue, yellow and green picture of a house containing books and, in the bottom part, the grey writing ‘Room to Read’ followed by a grey superscripted R.

RTI logo showing a blue square containing an horizontal and a vertical white semi-circles intersecting each other followed, on the right-hand side by the dark blue writing ‘RTI’. The picture and the ‘RTI’ writing are on top of the dark blue writing ‘International’.
Sabre Education logo showing a square made of 3 irregular shapes (respectively yellow, orange and brown) followed by the orange writing 'Sabre' above the smaller orange writing 'Education'
Samagra logo showing, from left to right, the picture of a golden column surmounted by a golden flag followed by the electric blue writing ‘Samagra’ on top of the orange writing ‘Transforming Governance’.

Save the Children logo showing, from left to right, the stylised representation of a red child with open arms towards the sky within a red circle followed by the black bold writing ‘Save the Children’ on a white background.
SMERU logo showing, in the top part, a stylised representation of a histogram with an orange base and blue vertical bars of different heights and, in the bottom part, the green writing ‘smeru’ on top of the smaller green writing ‘RESEARCH INSTITUTE’.
STIR education logo showing the red big and bold writing ‘STIR’ on top of the smaller red writing ‘education’ on a white background. The ‘I’ in ‘STIR’ is represented as a pencil which is writing.

SUMMA logo showing, on the left hand-side, a green and blue cube above the blue writing SUMMA and on the right hand-side the blue writing Laboratory of Education Research and Innovation for Latin America and the Caribbean.
Sunflower logo showing the colourful picture of a sunflower, in the top part, and the black writing ‘SUNFLOWER’, in the bottom part. The sunflower stem is made of 2 stylised children with arms opened towards the sky and facing each other.
TaRL Africa logo showing, on the left-hand side, the green writing ‘TaRL’ within a three-dimensional shape made of three green irregular circles which intersect with each other and, on the right-hand side, the green writing ‘teaching at the right level’.

Learn Nigeria logo showing the black writing ‘leARNigeria’ on a white background. The letter ‘N’ is made of 3 green leaves. TEP logo shows a golden and black pencil followed by the golden and light green writing ‘TEP’ on top of the black writing ‘THE EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP’ highlighted in green. This writing is in turn on top of the white writing ‘CENTRE’ highlighted in green. At the bottom of this logo, you can read the small black writing ‘…Global standards for education partnership’ on a white background.
Teach for All logo showing the big red writing ‘Teach for All’ on top of the smaller grey writing ‘A Global Network’ on a white background.
Twaweza ni sisi logo showing, from left to right, an abstract three-dimensional picture made of different curved lines, circles, dots in different colours (red, orange, grey, purple) followed by the grey writing ‘Twaweza’ on top of the smaller grey writing ‘ni sisi’ underlined in red.

Unicef logo showing the light blue writing 'unicef' followed by the picture of a mum with her baby within a globe above the light blue writing 'for every child'. The above and below writings are separated by a blue line.
Uwezo Tanzania logo showing the multi-colour (the colours are yellow, red, orange, blue and green) picture of a hurricane followed by the blue writing ‘uwezo’ on top of the smaller yellow writing ‘TANZANIA’.
Uwezo Uganda logo showing the multi-colour (the colours are yellow, red, orange, blue and green) picture of a hurricane followed by the blue writing ‘uwezo’ on top of the smaller red writing ‘UGANDA’.

Vvob logo showing the green writing ‘vvob’ on top of a three-dimensional green picture made of 2 semicircles (one on top of the other) followed by the smaller green writing ‘education for development’.
Young Lives logo showing the purple outline of 3 children of different heights who are hand in hand followed by the purple writing 'Young Lives'.
Youth Impact logo showing the green horizontal writing ‘Youth’ on top of the dark blue writing ‘Impact’. The initials ‘Y’ and ‘I’ form a stylised person with opened arms.

Zizi Afrique logo showing, the picture of a tree with green trunk and lilac leaves (the leaves are represented as opened books) followed, on the right-hand side, by the lilac writing ‘Zizi Afrique’ on top of the green writing ‘Foundation’.