2024 LEAP Challenge
Eager to demonstrate that your education solution has a positive impact on learners?
Submissions are Closed
Judge
Renaud Comba
Education Specialist, UNICEF Innocenti
Drew Edwards
Co-Founder, Board Director, Pangea Educational Development
Pauline Essah
Director of Research and Programmes, Education Sub Saharan Africa (ESSA)
Kim Foulds
Vice President, Content Research & Evaluation, Sesame Workshop
Christopher Geary
CEO & Co-Founder, BSD Education
Beatriz Guillen
Executive Director, The Resource Foundation
Emilio Lopez
Education Program Officer, Tinker Foundation
Elisa Mansur
Principal, VélezReyes+
Maria Monge
Sr. Policy and Communications Manager, J-PAL LAC
Joel Ogunsola
Founder & President, Tech4Dev
Dr. Oluwakemi Olurinola
CEO, Lead Consultant, Exquitec Education Technology
Bruna Pecin
Executive Coordinator, Lemann Center
Stephen Senyo Tettegah
Ghana Country Manager, Luminos Fund
Lea Simpson
Director, EdTech Hub
Simon Sommer
Co-CEO, Jacobs Foundation
Diana M. Suarez
Founder & Strategic Advisor, GLOT Inc
Victor Volman
Director of the Observatory, Argentinos por la Educación
Judging Criteria
- Partnership Readiness: The application demonstrates that the organization has a supportive infrastructure and a dedicated Team Lead who has the authority, capacity, and qualities to partner and engage collaboratively with a Fellow Team on a research-intensive LEAP Project.
- Evidence Understanding: The application has a promising or sound Theory of Change or logic
model that describes what the solution does and why it matters coherently and convincingly. The application outlines a clear understanding of the solution’s current evidence base and the need to strengthen it. - Research Aims: The research questions seek to establish and/or strengthen the evidence
base of the solution and advance children’s learning outcomes. The research questions are logical based on the organization’s needs. The outputs appropriately link to the research questions. - Project Feasibility: The application proposes a LEAP Project with outputs that are manageable
for a Fellow team (3-4 part-time LEAP Fellows working 6-10 hours a week) to accomplish within a 12-week sprint period. - Potential for Impact: The application outlines a realistic, practical plan for what the
organization will do with the outputs once the LEAP Project concludes. The application proposes a LEAP Project that has the potential to be transformative for the organization’s solution and the population it serves.
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