TEACH Rwanda

09/05/2026

Bright School staff spent this week engaging in Continuous Professional Development (CPD) as they prepare for the exciting school year ahead! Through team-building experiences, classroom demonstrations, and skill-building sessions, our staff is learning, collaborating, and growing together.

Our staff is SO energized, because CPD reflects the same active engagement and hands-on learning that we strive to create in our classrooms every day.

Everyone is also becoming familiar with new spaces and structures at Bright School, including our interactive play space. Everyone is ready to welcome our students back for another successful, engaging, and exciting academic year, which starts on Monday, 7 September!

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Discover TEACH Rwanda and our demonstration school, Bright School at https://youtu.be/4_Zmlg6v8u8 and at www.TEACHRwanda.org.

Interested in TEACHER MENTORING to implement joyful learning through play and projects? TEACH 4 Transformation (T4T) sparks innovation with the CBC. Contact [email protected].

FUND A FUTURE! Provide scholarships for 76 vulnerable Rwandan children at Bright School.

Three easy ways to donate to TEACH Rwanda! In Rwanda, donate with our MoMo code: 502486. Worldwide, go to www.TEACHRwanda.org. In the USA, send a check to TR at 1787-C Chateau Place, Easton, PA 18045.


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09/04/2026

Rwanda is set to benefit from a $100 million global school-meals initiative led by The Rockefeller Foundation, aimed at expanding access to nutritious, locally sourced and sustainably produced meals for 100 million additional children.

In Rwanda, the initiative is already supporting school feeding through fortified whole-grain maize for about 200,000 children, while a partnership with Solid Africa has supported a centralised kitchen capable of preparing around 14,000 meals per day.

The programme also looks beyond the plate — connecting schools with local farmers, food businesses, regenerative agriculture, clean cooking and school gardens to strengthen Rwanda’s wider food system.

A pilot in 18 public schools found that 97% of children preferred the fortified whole-grain meal after learning about its benefits.

09/02/2026

08/26/2026

Exactly!

What practices do you use with your children? Part of our Educator cheat sheet series. Downloadable pdf in the comments.

08/23/2026

How to generate children’s excitement about Rwandan culture—and have fun? Music!

Drumming…dancing…and singing—music has always been integrated into learning at Bright School. Now, we are eager to expand our music program with
• INSTRUMENTS including keyboards, guitars, drums, umuduri, recorders, and others
• LESSONS led by professional musicians, and
• PERFORMANCES, polished for community events!

What do our students say about learning more music? Watch this video!
Music at Bright School
https://youtu.be/x1FG-CQdYXk

TR’s goal is $50,000 to launch this much-awaited music program for pre-primary through P6. To bring LOTS more music to Bright School, please donate today at www.TEACHRwanda.org.

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Discover TEACH Rwanda and our demonstration school, Bright School at https://youtu.be/4_Zmlg6v8u8 and at www.TEACHRwanda.org.

Interested in TEACHER MENTORING to implement joyful learning through play and projects? TEACH 4 Transformation (T4T) sparks innovation with the CBC. Contact [email protected].

FUND A FUTURE! Provide scholarships for 76 vulnerable Rwandan children at Bright School.

Curious about ecologically friendly, more affordable STELA® Eco-Bots™? Contact Godwin Mutwarasibo at [email protected] for more information.

Three easy ways to donate to TEACH Rwanda! In Rwanda, donate with our MoMo code: 502486. Worldwide, go to www.TEACHRwanda.org. In the USA, send a check to TR at 1787-C Chateau Place, Easton, PA 18045.


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08/22/2026

To conclude our series about changing Africa’s pedagogical philosophy, we quote Donnah Rubagumya, who says it best (“New Times,” July 18, 2026).

“Africa's greatest resource is the minds of its children. If those minds are nurtured through an educational philosophy rooted in dignity, self-reliance, ethical leadership, and cultural confidence, the continent will produce generations capable of solving African challenges with African solutions.

“By institutionalizing Agaciro as Africa's pedagogical philosophy, education can move beyond memorization to empowerment, beyond dependency to ownership. The classroom becomes a place where knowledge is measured not only by academic achievement but by character, responsibility, and service to society.

“Agaciro should not remain solely a Rwandan national value; it has the potential to become Africa's educational philosophy.”

Through TEACH for Transformation (T4T) and Bright School, TEACH Rwanda is on the cutting edge in achieving Africa's dreams.

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Discover TEACH Rwanda and our demonstration school, Bright School at https://youtu.be/4_Zmlg6v8u8 and at www.TEACHRwanda.org.

Interested in TEACHER MENTORING to implement joyful learning through play and projects? TEACH 4 Transformation (T4T) sparks innovation with the CBC. Contact [email protected].

FUND A FUTURE! Provide scholarships for 76 vulnerable Rwandan children at Bright School.

Curious about ecologically friendly, more affordable STELA® Eco-Bots™? Contact Godwin Mutwarasibo at [email protected] for more information.

Three easy ways to donate to TEACH Rwanda! In Rwanda, donate with our MoMo code: 502486. Worldwide, go to www.TEACHRwanda.org. In the USA, send a check to TR at 1787-C Chateau Place, Easton, PA 18045.

Go green! Check out our new book—"Natural & Recycled Resources: Learning Materials for Pre-Primary and Primary Students: Find, Play, Understand.” Available in Kigali bookstores, at the airport, and from TEACH Rwanda.


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08/21/2026

#6 In his article about Africa’s pedagogical philosophy, Donnah Rubagumya states that “ethical integrity (Indangagaciro na Kirazira) recognizes that academic excellence without moral character is incomplete” (“New Times,” July 18, 2026).

Instead of “corruption, laziness, and divisionism” found in some schools, Rubagumya supports “integrity, patriotism, discipline, and hard work” as ways to more effectively support Rwanda’s development.

Since 2010, TEACH Rwanda’s volunteers and staff have been building Rwandan capacity in educators and students through integrity, self-discipline, and hard work. Our staff and volunteers are proud to be Rwandan or Rwandan residents.

Our TEACH for Transformation mentoring program and Bright School are changing the face of Rwandan education, exactly as Rubagumya so clearly defined it.

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Discover TEACH Rwanda and our demonstration school, Bright School at https://youtu.be/4_Zmlg6v8u8 and at www.TEACHRwanda.org.

Interested in TEACHER MENTORING to implement joyful learning through play and projects? TEACH 4 Transformation (T4T) sparks innovation with the CBC. Contact [email protected].

FUND A FUTURE! Provide scholarships for 76 vulnerable Rwandan children at Bright School.

Curious about ecologically friendly, more affordable STELA® Eco-Bots™? Contact Godwin Mutwarasibo at [email protected] for more information.

Three easy ways to donate to TEACH Rwanda! In Rwanda, donate with our MoMo code: 502486. Worldwide, go to www.TEACHRwanda.org. In the USA, send a check to TR at 1787-C Chateau Place, Easton, PA 18045.


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08/19/2026

#5 Impactful excellence in education (Ubudehe) is implemented “through practical projects that solve real community challenges, ensuring knowledge translates into meaningful impact” (Rubagumya, “New Times,” July 18, 2026). Part 2.

Another example of Ubudehe, in addition to making isombe (see our August 18 post), is how recycled materials have become a part of students’ everyday learning experiences at Bright School.

During our STELA Eco-Bots program, robotics students surveyed their families and neighbors to find out what kinds of local challenges could be solved with robots and/or machines. These students created a Mindsearch web with possible ideas. Their final prototypes, made with recycled materials? A drone to detect illegal drugs in cars, an automated mop to clean floors (see the photo), and a robot to increase the quality of telephone signals received from satellites.

Compare these practical, meaningful, creative experiences to “typical Rwandan schools, [where] exams are the sole measure of achievement.” Many students spend hours reviewing past exam answers and memorizing content. BUT they actually remember (or understand or can apply) very little of what they “learned.”

TEACH for Transformation exemplifies Ubudehe. TEACH Rwanda is leading by example!

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Discover TEACH Rwanda and our demonstration school, Bright School at https://youtu.be/4_Zmlg6v8u8 and at www.TEACHRwanda.org.

Interested in TEACHER MENTORING to implement joyful learning through play and projects? TEACH 4 Transformation (T4T) sparks innovation with the CBC. Contact [email protected].

Curious about ecologically friendly, more affordable STELA® Eco-Bots™? Contact Godwin Mutwarasibo at [email protected] for more information.

Three easy ways to donate to TEACH Rwanda! In Rwanda, donate with our MoMo code: 502486. Worldwide, go to www.TEACHRwanda.org. In the USA, send a check to TR at 1787-C Chateau Place, Easton, PA 18045.

Go green! Check out our new book—"Natural & Recycled Resources: Learning Materials for Pre-Primary and Primary Students: Find, Play, Understand.” Available in Kigali bookstores, at the airport, and from TEACH Rwanda.


for Transformation







.org