Room 4 Growth is a nonprofit empowering students and educators through K–12 tutoring, soft skills development, teacher training, and career readiness programs — helping learners succeed in school, careers, and life. 🌍📚 We are a diverse group of trailblazers with over 350 years of experience in education, special education, workforce, economics and social work in our team. So, our team is made up o
f experienced educationists, technologists, and business executives. Our driving passion to close the education gap, link education and employment, school-to-career one case at a time.
� What do we do? Room for Growth is an education-and-employment, school-to-career nonprofit organization with a clear purpose. Everything we do, we do with the goal of transforming lives through learning to work and learning to study. In our mind’s eye, we see education connected to the workforce. This enables them to reach their full potential and contribute to their communities and the world. Improving learning requires improvement in teaching as well. Room for Growth reskills and upskills teachers in jobs, and trains those to be with the skills needed to prepare new generations. We also believe that the greatest change in the world will happen through educated mothers. Learners, educationalists and mothers are the system changers. They are the ‘system changers’ as they have a direct impact on young minds’ development.
‘Job fit’ skills matter for an individual’s career success, so simply said Room for Growth is a skill development organization that among other activities, offers skill based training to create smoother pathways between education and the job market.
� Learning Method: Experiential Learning - Learning by doing. Characteristics of Experiential Learning engage with learners in direct experience and focused reflection in order to increase knowledge, develop skills and clarify values. Facilitated and guided practice, reflection and evaluation are all essential components of this transformative method of learning. Learning by doing. This is the basis for the experiential learning theory. Experiential learning focuses on the idea that the best ways to learn things is by actually having experiences. Those experiences then stick out in your mind and help you retain information and remember facts.
�T R A I N I N G S �
What are we focused on?
�Empowering Educationalists to enrich students learning
RfG empowers teachers to enrich student learning through collaborative, teacher-driven analysis and refinement of practice. Workshops / Trainings / Round Table discussions / Teacher Conferences are some of the activities that this program will offer for pre-service and in-service teachers.
�Filling in the GAPS in Education
Skills development – for young learners to fill the learning loss in core subjects due to Covid-19 school closure through STEAM projects. We offer Before & After school support programs for all interested learners.
� Social-Emotional Program
The goal of an SEL program is to foster the development of five interrelated sets of cognitive, affective, and behavioral competencies: self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision-making.
�Volunteering
“Volunteering” is a big word. How can Teens be sure they’re finding opportunities that are right for them? Room for Growth has a room for them with a variety of opportunities. Community Service Learning instills a lifelong habit of helping others. It encourages teens to look to the needs of their community and use their resources to pass on good to those who need it the most. Whether it’s a service that is well-known and carries prestige or small acts like clearing trash from their favorite hiking trails. Community service is about serving the community and keeping that tenant in mind will help them make the right choices in all that they do. And yeah, okay, it’ll also look good on their high school resume! Helping Solve Employability of youth and adults, especially women focusing on Join the Work Market / Return to Work / Reintegration of unemployed adults into the labour market skills needed. Upskilling and reskilling of low-skilled adults, particularly women is an urgent priority for Kosovo’s policy-makers and stakeholders. Rapidly changing labour markets and multiple challenges, such as digitalisation and its consequences for the future of work, technological changes, the environment, young population and social inclusion, require strong skill foundations and constant updating and acquiring of new skills, knowledge and competences. So, based on this, R4G focuses on:
Skills development students’ in transitioning to meet the job market or pursue a career path. Reskill development - for those workers who are long-term unemployed and need to reskill,
Upskill development – for employees who need to uplift their skills in order to meet job requirements, or for those who have taken a break from school to entirely focus on work, return to further their education and training in adulthood, or go through career transition in middle-age. Encouraging Life-Long Learning The framework for 21st Century Learning Skills focuses on the “Seven C's,” according to Trilling, who co-authored a book called “21st Century Skills: Learning for Life in Our Times.” Those C's include: critical thinking; creativity and innovation; collaboration; cross-cultural understanding; communication; computing technology; and career learning. Room for Growth is dedicated to imply and develop the 7 C’s to our targeted groups through a variety of projects and activities.
�Who do we serve? Room for Growth understands the complexities of providing quality education in different contexts. Based on this, our approaches and activities are designed to meet the needs of given populations in their specific environments:
Vulnerable youth and women
Low-skilled adults
Schools
Education Systems
Refugees and Displaced Persons
Communities
Rural Areas
Urban Areas
Diaspora
�Where do we work? Since its foundation in 2021, R4G aims to work with all communities from different parts of Kosovo. In addition, our organization aims to get involved in projects that have global scope.
�Our Vision:
Our vision. Our Dream. In our mind’s eye, we see education connected to the workforce.
� Our Mission:
Our Mission. Our Purpose. We walk with those who need Room for Growth! We believe that any change starts with quality education, so our organization will offer programs that help increase the quality of the education system including assistance to teachers and vulnerable groups by facilitating education mediation with the labor market, with increased attention to vulnerable groups such as youth and women, cultural minorities, groups with disabilities and vulnerable groups in our society; this necessity of a developing society that aspires to be an equal part of the globalized world. Our Core Values
�Inclusion - We acknowledge and honor the fundamental value and dignity of all individuals. We pledge ourselves to creating and maintaining an environment that respects diverse traditions, heritages, and experiences.
�Build for durability: We want to create something worth creating, that will endure the test of time. We do this by relentlessly focusing on our teachers, youth and marginalized group's success, building sustainable systems, and planning for long-term scale. We're grounded by humility and driven by ambition.
�Make something better, today: We're hardworking, we're passionate, and we love tough problems and new challenges. You don't hear a lot of "I don't know how" or "I can't" at R4G. When faced with a hurdle, we get creative and act.
�People Development: by providing an environment and programs that fosters personal development and professional growth.
�Team on a mission: Room for Growth is made up of amazing individuals, educators, Economists, social workers and learning specialists, but it’s only through teamwork and collaboration that we achieve greatness. We’re committed to helping our target group by working together with equal parts humility and ambition.
�Think big: Being in the world of education requires unrivalled vision, innovation and ex*****on. We never settle — in everything we do, we challenge our ideas of what’s possible in order to better meet the needs of our target groups.
�Stay Open: Our individual differences strengthen our teams, and the trust and respect we have for each other infuses passion into everything we do. Some who is sincerely open considers alternatives, looks at things through a different lens. Opening our minds and combining our different backgrounds, experiences, world views and expertise make us savvier problem solvers and drive better results.
�Let’s Work Together:
If you feel that you fit in our mission, please join us! GLOBAL REACH, LOCAL TOUCH. Room for Growth operates in Kosovo but has a wide network of certified facilitators around the globe.
