USAID-AENN Addressing Education in Northeast Nigeria

The Addressing Education in Northeast Nigeria project provides coaching and mentoring support that uses a balanced model off both "soft" and "hard" techniques. "Hard" techniques include more directive and explicit feedback, such as requests to implement a new strategy in the classroom, while "soft" techniques involve open questions or probes to allow teachers to have voice and express their ideas or opinions.  The two materials included also provide guidance on how to transform these coaching/mentoring prompts to virtual or remote platforms, e.g. through text messaging (and particularly during COVID-19).  The Addressing Education in Northeast Nigeria programme addresses wellbeing across all layers of the system, not just at the classroom level. The "NFLC Monitoring" document explicitly indicates this, through questions that ask about, for example, teachers' salary, whether or not they are being paid on time, or what their employment status is (e.g. contract, formal, etc.).