Nigerian Schools shortlisted for $250, 000 prize, share secrets on best practices

The schools are to share their experience through toolkits that showcase their “secret sauce” to innovative approaches and step-by-step instructions on how others can replicate these methods to help improve learning.

The prize was funded by T4 Education, in collaboration with Templeton World Charity Foundation, Accenture, American Express, Yayasan Hasanah, and the Lemann Foundation, to share best practices of schools that are transforming lives of their students and making a difference in their communities.

The World’s Best School Prizes are the most prestigious education prizes, where winning schools share an award of $250,000.

According to the organisers, the five World’s Best School Prizes – for community collaboration, environmental action, innovation, overcoming adversity and supporting healthy lives, celebrate schools everywhere for the pivotal role they play in developing the next generation of learners and for their contributions to society’s progress, especially in the wake of COVID-19 pandemic.

Announcing the winners recently, Best Intellectuals Model School, Ohanku, Aba, Abia State, was named in the Top 10 shortlist for the World’s Best School prize for Overcoming Adversity, while Project Shelter Wakadogo, Uganda, emerged winner of the World’s Best School Prize for Overcoming Adversity from among top three finalists for the prize, which also included Pinelands North Primary School in South Africa and Escola Evandro Ferreira Dos Santos in Brazil.

Founder of T4 Education and the World’s Best School Prizes, Vikas Pota, said: “Far too many children will continue to be left behind in the wake of COVID-19 pandemic unless government takes urgent action to tackle the education crisis. “

As a first step, they must turn to the knowledge and experience contained within our schools because those on the frontlines of education know better than anyone else, the change we need to see.

“We initiated the prizes to surface the expertise of trailblazing schools from every corner of the globe, so that leaders can learn from their incredible stories.”

Winners of the five prizes were chosen by a Judging Academy, comprising leaders across the globe, including academics, educators, social entrepreneurs, government, civil society and the private sector, based on a set of rigorous criteria.