How do you teach and learn in places where explosions and air raid sirens sound more often than school bells for breaks? For children and educators in frontline regions, those bells seem like a distant, gentle memory from pre-COVID school days.
As part of the project “Ukrainian Consortium for Education Challenges Response: Safe Return to Learning,” implemented by Teach for Ukraine NGO together with Save the Children and the European Union to restore education in frontline and recently liberated territories, we invited 58 teachers and school leaders from Kherson and Mykolaiv regions to a training session in Odesa.
Together, we worked on building strategies to overcome learning losses at the school level, set goals, and planned next steps to ensure that children in their communities can access quality education despite the many challenges educators face in the region.
Special thanks to trainers Olha Yurchyshyn, Vasyl Tereshchenko, Olha Slobodyanyuk, Kateryna Spitkovska, Tetiana Shvets, and Khrystyna Bedriy!
Olena Hladysheva, a participant in the training, shares:
“I’m grateful to the organizers for the opportunity to take part in this event. For us, teachers currently in Kherson, this is like entering a parallel reality. And we dove right into it. New, interesting, professional, and useful! Thank you sincerely for the new knowledge, enhanced professional skills, and the chance to connect with colleagues from other educational institutions. I wish us all health and VICTORY!”
The project is funded by the European Union with support from the international humanitarian organization Save the Children.
However, the views and opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or Save the Children.
