Better Minds Education

FLIPPED CLASSROOM; KENYA

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PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

Flipped classroom. 

Learn more about the Flipped Classroom Challenge and why new education models, like flipping the classroom or deskilling a class curriculum, offer a solution to the vast teacher shortages in the developing world.

DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION

Better Minds Education is dedicated to improving student learning outcomes throughout rural Africa through a scalable digital tutoring model.

Better Minds distributes proven digital tutoring content to high-need students in rural Africa. The pilot digital learning center in Kakamega, Kenya leverages low-cost tablets and self-paced learning software to teach students at their right level of learning through school-based partnerships and holiday learning camps.

Better Minds was founded in 2019 by Siler Bryan, with Grace Waweru as the first Digital Learning Center Manager.


PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

  • Provide tutoring to 500 students within 3 months

  • Launch partnerships with 6 schools and hold 1 holiday camp to reach 500 students in 3 months

  • Raise $50,000 from new donors within 3 months

  • Scale to serve 2,000 students by end of year 1 and 10,000 by year 2


     

FOUNDING TEAM

Siler Bryan - Director