Ukraine Emergency Education Response

Project Status

The IDD team developed the award-winning Ukrainian Refugee Emergency Program – based on the principles of the Internet Free Education Resource Bank - is designed specifically to address the learning needs of Ukrainian refugee children and blend SEL, Ukrainian academic standards, and intercultural skills into engaging hands-on learning modules for host and refugee community learners.

More importantly, it is the only content suite that involves host community learners in refugee education.

Ukraine Emergency Education Response includes: 

• Bedtime Stories are designed for parents or guardians to read with their children
• An Activity Book designed for volunteers/guardians to keep children engaged
• The Integration Package which designed for educators to foster intercultural understanding in their classrooms, for Ukrainian and Host Country learners to do together
• The Academic Packages are a series of screen-free, hands-on project-based learning modules, arranged day-wise to cover dominant learning outcomes in literacy, numeracy and science.

Pilot: Positive Education Institute’s implementation

Positive Education Institute (PEI) used the Ukraine Refugee Response Content for 3-month cycles where Ukrainian refugees engaged in project-based learning in a safe environment and also learned Polish, under the supervision of both Ukrainian and Polish Teachers. The program ran in 5 adaptation centres, which are physical spaces for incoming Ukrainian refugees to learn in a short-term, cohort format.

In addition, by leveraging the existing partnership with the Ministry of National Education in Poland, PEI implemented EAA’s integration and academic learning packages to facilitate intercultural understanding and curricular catch-up for Ukrainian refugee children enrolled in 100 Polish schools.

Also, PEI disseminated EAA’s Support Package (Bed Time Stories and Activity Book) to Ukrainian mothers to help them productively engage their children during their free time, through their existing support programs for these mothers.