Education
Who we are?
The Education Impact Initiative team is a group of local and international educational experts, community members, and activists working in partnership with school-based educators to transform schools into safe spaces for learning for both teachers and students. Our goal is to enable all students to grow to their fullest potential, while attending to their well-being, and become successful and skillful adults actively engaged in serving their community. Our interventions are based on an agile, evidence-based, inclusive, and holistic approach that is informed by local needs, is accountable to people and focused on sustainable solutions.
Our principles
- We believe that our success is contingent on changing our mindsets as educators and concerned citizens on what education our children deserve.
- We consider public education a cornerstone of society and our best bet for societal improvement.
- Collaboration and coordination between all stakeholders concerned with improving the educational sector is the only way towards the needed systemic transformation.
- We are confident that public schools have dedicated mission-oriented educators who are the best advocates for their students.
- Educators have the responsibility to acquire the know-how needed to transform schools from within towards systemic improvement.
- Partnerships with parents and the community are a necessity not a luxury.
Our Vision for the
School & the Learner


Our Strategy: KHBEd Community School Support Hub

KHBEd Initiative Coordination Channels

Key Milestones
1. Established a partnership with six public schools:
After extending an invitation to several public schools within the area that was affected by the August blast, 6 schools accepted our invitation.
- متوسّطة الطّريق الجديدة الثّالثة الرّسميّة المختلطة (Madrasat Tarik El Jadideh al Thalitha Al Mukhtalata)
- المختلطة متوسطة الملك سعود الرسمية (Mutawassitat Al Malek Saoud Al Mukhtalata)
- الشيخ جابر الأحمد الصباح الرسمية (Madrasat El Cheikh Jaber Al Ahmad Sabah)
- امين بيهم النموذجية المختلطة الرسمية (Madrasat Amin Bayhom Al Mukhtalata)
- ثانوية دولة الرئيس رياض الصلح الرسمية المختلطة (Thanawiyat Dawlat Al Ra’is Riad El Solh)
- ثانوية الدكتورة أمان كبارة شعراني الرسمية للبنات (Thanawiyat Dr. Aman Kabara Shaarani)
The schools welcomed establishing a partnership with KHBEd scholars and experts to codesign and implement a community school model that fits their context while they receive support to manage through the crisis.
2. Established a KHBEd Community School Support Hub:
We mobilized 60 volunteers that encompass local and international educational experts and we established partnerships with several educational entities (institutions/associations /NGOs/initiatives). To organize our work and enhance sustainability, we developed strategies to coordinate among the volunteers and partners and established a documentation protocol as well as guidelines to be followed by individuals/ groups developing an intervention.
3. Supporting the schools to complete a guided self-study of their needs and assets.
This assessment was planned and implemented by KHBEd volunteers and a team from learning land.
4. Allocated a team of experts consisting of a coach, a coordinator, and an intern from GESN to work closely with the schools.
The teams are:
- Dr. Rola Koubeissy and Nidal Sleiman from Mousharaka and Dounia Houssami
- Dr. Rima Karami and Feyrouz Salameh from TAMAM and Stephanie Jureidini and Amani Abou El Hassan
- Dr. Mounifa Assaf and Dr Suzanne Abou Rjeily and Inas AlHafi
- Diana Sarieddine from TAMAM and Mirna Raslan
- Dr. Lina Khalil
- Dr. Jinan Karameh Shayya and Jinan Merehbi and Abir Halabi
Scope of Services
- Powerful learning for teachers and students:
- Offering webinars to the teachers. One webinar about Microsoft Teams was presented by Mirna Raslan and
one webinar about online assessment was offered by the AUB education department
- Offering webinars to the teachers. One webinar about Microsoft Teams was presented by Mirna Raslan and
- Building leadership capacity:
- Getting to know the context of the school and its history through background information (information
about demographics, structure, school climate, professional development, change initiatives etc.)
collected by GESN volunteers. - Offering recognition to teachers for their commitment to ongoing school improvement.
- Providing leadership training to Malek Saoud School.
- Getting to know the context of the school and its history through background information (information
- Extended learning opportunities:
- Offering a year long computing literacy training program to 27 high school female students from Aman
Kabbara and Riad El Soloh Schools. This training was delivered by volunteers from the computer science
club and the computer science department at the American University of Beirut. - Providing funds for the schools to conduct wellbeing and extended learning activities like
"Fun activities performed at Jaber El Sobah School to establish nurturing environments where
children can create their most memorable experiences and memories." - Providing yearlong extended learning activities to students in collaboration with students’ clubs at
AUB including:- Reading activities at Amin
Bayhom and Jaber EL Sobah by
the Education student society - Extended learning educational activities organized by the UNICEF CLUB at AUB to students in
elementary and intermediate school.
- Reading activities at Amin
- Offering a year long computing literacy training program to 27 high school female students from Aman
- Developing Partnerships with the community:
- Providing venues for the schools to advocate for themselves through arranging meetings with:
- Fadi El
Khatib
- Dr.
Najat
Rochdi
- Fadi El
- Offering recognition to teachers for their commitment to ongoing school improvement.
- Providing leadership training to Malek Saoud School.
- Providing venues for the schools to advocate for themselves through arranging meetings with:
- Basic needs:
- Launching Their Right to Learn to provide public school students access to the necessary technologies
required for inclusive and modern learning through establishing well-equipped computer labs in these
schools in partnership with Beit El Baraka and THAKI. - Mapping the IT infrastructure of the schools by a team led by Dr Wassim El Hajj, Professor of Computer
Science at the American University of Beirut - Providing schools with cleaning and hygiene supplies for a whole year
- Offering basic needs support to staff
- Providing transportation costs to several families to ensure students’ attendance at school
- Launching Their Right to Learn to provide public school students access to the necessary technologies