Impact Network's eSchool 360 Model

In Zambia, public spending on education constitutes only 2.9% of GDP, and the share of total government expenditure spent on education has eroded every year since 2015. The issue of educational access is not simply physical, but also economic and social. Primary and secondary school age children in the poorest countries are nine times more likely to be out of school than those in the richest countries. In addition, over the last 20 years, thousands of schools have been built to provide universal access to education. But, without trained teachers, strong management, and high-quality learning materials, many of these schools are failing to produce quality results.

The eSchool 360 is a technological solution that delivers high-quality, low-cost, and sustainable education to children in under-served areas. The core of the model is e-learning technology: tablets and projectors loaded with an interactive curriculum approved by the Zambian government. Impact Network built a successful model for holistic education bolstered by intensive teacher coaching, weekly management through mobile data collection, eco-friendly solar power, and community ownership.

The evaluation found that our schools doubled literacy achievement and increased math achievement by 55% over the control group after just one year. Furthermore, they found that our schools increased enrolment by almost 15% over the control group. Learning gains – that is how much more Impact Network students learned than students without the eSchool 360 – are the equivalent of more than 22 extra months of schooling for reading and 12 extra months of schooling for math.