💡How do you actually put A/B testing into practice? We’ve learned it works best when tests are small, practical, and built into real program decisions, prioritizing learning over perfection. #YouthImpact #ABTesting #WhatWorks #SocialImpact

What makes iterative A/B tests so powerful for social impact work? It’s the Three Rs: 🔹 Rigorous — causal evidence from randomized variations 🔹 Rapid — results in weeks or months 🔹 Regular — continuous learning cycle #MonitoringAndEvaluation #ImpactOptimization

📚 What would happen to the global economy if 90% of children could read by age 10? A new analysis of 114 countries finds that universal #FoundationalLearning would produce 🌍 +$196 trillion in economic output 👛 +27% in per capita GDP & more. ➡️ Read: buff.ly/xIy4MEd

📣 New piece on the core components of teaching at the right level combining insight from RCTs + adjacent fields + implementer views. To scale programs, we need to know their core components - what can't be removed to preserve impact & what can be removed to lower cost: www.wwhge.org/resources/co...

In the social sector, waiting years for evaluation results can mean missed opportunities. Iterative A/B testing bridges the gap between measurement and implementation delivering causal evidence in weeks, not years to improve programs as they roll out. 🧵 @ssir.org @noamangrist.bsky.social

📣 Passionate about closing the gap between evidence and day-to-day implementation? Check out our new article "Iterative A/B testing for Social Impact: Rigorous, Rapid, and Regular" now out in @ssir.org w/ @mandabeat.bsky.social @ccullen.bsky.social Tendekai Mukoyi ssir.org/articles/ent...

✨ When committed teachers and strong partnerships come together, learning can thrive anywhere. Learn more about our work in the Philippines: 👉 www.youth-impact.org/the-philippi... #YouthImpact #mEducation #EducationForAll #Philippines

Missed our Q4 newsletter? Catch up on our latest news, including: 📊 Our new A/B testing toolkit 📚 Program updates from the field 🏆 Key milestones & achievements 💼 Latest vacancies 👉 mailchi.mp/youth-impact...

⭐️2025 Highlight #2 In February, we launched our Education Compass, giving Botswana one of the clearest pictures yet of foundational learning. 📘📊 A new edition is coming in early 2026, building on what we learned in the first study. 👉 More here: www.youth-impact.org/press-releas...

⭐️2025 Highlight #1 This year, our flagship adolescent health program officially became Choices — a name that reflects what it empowers young people to make every day. 💛✨ 👉 Read more: www.youth-impact.org/choices-new-... #YouthImpact #ChoicesProgram #AdolescentHealth

Ending the year strong 🌟 We’ve now run 75 A/B tests. Our new toolkit captures everything we’ve learned and how we test in real time. More A/B testing content coming in 2026. Download: youth-impact.org/insights/a-b-testing-toolkit #YouthImpact #ABTesting @wwhglobaled.bsky.social @j-pal.bsky.social

Our new Iterative A/B Testing Toolkit is live 🥳 A decade of A/B tests distilled into practical tools for rapid, rigorous learning. ⬇️Download: youth-impact.org/insights/a-b-testing-toolkit @noamangrist.bsky.social @j-pal.bsky.social #YouthImpact #ABTesting

👉 How do we scale up interventions without losing effectiveness? 📺 Watch the full keynote panel from the Australasian Aid Conference 2025 featuring our co-founder @noamangrist.bsky.social: www.youtube.com/live/tv-xZJl... #ImplementationScience #AAC2025

📈 How can we ensure that ‘what works’ still works at scale? On 4 Dec, 1:30pm AEDT (Canberra time), tune into an Australasian AID Conference panel on the science of scale & implementation that will explore this question and more. ➡️ Watch on YouTube: buff.ly/MmqJ5W9

❤️‍🩹 World AIDS Day This year’s theme says it best: Overcoming disruption, transforming the AIDS response. ✨Our Choices program gives young people in Botswana the tools to understand risky behaviour, make safer decisions, and protect their futures. #WorldAIDSDay

➡️ Learn more by visiting our event page: buff.ly/5aTflsO 🔧 Or learn about our new #Implementation Research at the Middle Tier initiative: www.wwhge.org/what-we-do/i... @gatesfoundation.bsky.social @youthimpactorg.bsky.social @michellekaffs.bsky.social

⏰ Join us on 3 Dec for a webinar on the middle tier of govt, which plays a crucial role in implementation of #FoundationalLearning reforms. You'll hear insights from Dept of Basic Education, South Africa; FHI 360; Language & Learning Foundation; Meerkat Learning & VVOB. ➡️ Register: buff.ly/diATPKu

When expanding a social program, maintaining impact at scale is hard. What if it wasn’t? In our new guest post on @j-pal.bsky.social, we share how 12 iterative A/B tests helped us optimize phone-based tutoring, boosting effectiveness and cutting costs. Read: povertyactionlab.org/blog/11-20-2...

In a new J-PAL guest blog, @youthimpactorg.bsky.social shares how running 12 iterative A/B tests helped optimize a tutoring program—finding that one test doubled the program's effectiveness. Read more about using iterative A/B tests to refine a program: https://bit.ly/4oOBfpA

Every child deserves the chance to learn, grow, and thrive. 🌱 That’s why one of our core values, ‘Youth First,’ guides us every day as we work toward our vision of all youth thriving. ✨ Happy #WorldChildrensDay! #YouthImpact #ForEveryChild #YouthThriving

🤝🏼The Choices team met with the Kweneng Region Education Office (Botswana) and its sub-regions for a stakeholder engagement session to share program results and strengthen collaboration. Working closely with government partners is central to how we deliver impact 🚀 #AdolescentHealth #ScalingImpact

We’re thrilled! 🎉 Both our education programs #TaRL & #mEducation (ConnectEd) have been named in @HundrEDorg’s Top 100 global education innovations to watch in 2026! 🌍 📘 hundred.org/en/reports/hundred-global-collection-2026 #YouthImpact #HundrED #EducationInnovation

📣 @youthimpactorg.bsky.social is hiring a Learning Partnerships Lead, who will lead A/B testing partnerships & high-profile research-to-action partnerships: www.youth-impact.org/join-our-tea... ➡️ An exciting role for those who care about rigorous evidence being used in practice on a day-to-day basis

🗞️ Our Q3 Newsletter is out! This quarter, we’re spotlighting evidence in action; from innovation in foundational learning and health programming to key milestones. 🚀 Catch up on the latest updates, impact stories, and insights: 👉 mailchi.mp/youth-impact... #EvidenceInAction #Education

Can A/B testing translate from the tech sector to the social sector? Our new working paper on 12 iterative experiments says “yes” ✅ 58% of our 12 A/B tests improved efficiency. That’s higher than tech benchmarks. 👉New working paper www.wwhge.org/resources/ch...

We ran 12 A/B tests in 3 years. Each built on the last. Iteration = real results: lower costs, higher learning. A nimble way to scale evidence-based programs. 👉New working paper: www.wwhge.org/resources/ch...

📣 Our paper is out on 12 A/B tests all together showing *big* efficiency gains! So excited about this paper & broader approach. We optimize tutoring programs which are famously effective but hard to scale. Highlights👇 @wwhglobaled.bsky.social @youthimpactorg.bsky.social www.wwhge.org/resources/ch...

🆕 New working paper out now! Cheaper (and more effective) by the dozen: Evidence from 12 randomised A/B tests optimising tutoring for scale, by @noamangrist.bsky.social, @ccullen.bsky.social & @janicalapati.bsky.social. @youthimpactorg.bsky.social 📍 Read more: www.wwhge.org/resources/ch...

Impact starts with strong facilitators 💪🏼 We’re thrilled to have 21 new facilitators on board in North West province, who successfully completed their training and will be implementing TaRL across schools in Khuma, SA. 🔗Learn more about our work in South Africa: www.youth-impact.org/southafrica

📰 #ICYMI Our autumn What We Learn newsletter highlights milestones in evidence & education, from Beyond 1 Billion to CEPE’s locally led reform in Colombia. 🔗 Catch up: jacobsfoundation.org/what-we-lear... #Learning #Philanthropy

📍Thrilled to showcase our work on Day 1 of the 9th International Workshop on Adolescence, SRHR & HIV 2025 with two posters from our Choices program: 📱 A phone-based intervention to curb inter-generational sex 👩‍🏫 How class setups (mixed vs. single gender) affect knowledge retention

💡 “Techniques like A/B testing, widely used in tech, are a sister to randomized trials. Instead of a control group, you compare Version A and Version B — everyone gets something, just with a tweak.” – @noamangrist.bsky.social #YouthImpact #EvidenceInAction #ABTesting #IndiaScaleUpSummit

Last week, the Department of Basic Education South Africa, Zenex Foundation, and the British Council, in close partnership with @wwhglobaled.bsky.social, hosted an exciting three-day #EdLab Peer Learning Event in #SouthAfrica, with Education Lab teams from South Africa, Tanzania, Kenya and Botswana.

📣 Join us @wwhglobaled.bsky.social at #UKFIETConf 2025! Tomorrow @ukfiet.bsky.social, we are hosting a panel on #EdLabs, 'Partnerships to strengthen evidence uptake and use: lessons from Education Labs'. 📍 2pm–3.30pm | Tue 16 Sep | Room 9 🔗 ukfiet2025.exordo.com/programme/pr...

In partnership with Meerkat Learning, we're thrilled to have completed our 1st pre-service training in partnership with the University of Namibia! 🎉 ✅ 200 student teachers trained in the TaRL learning support methodology ✅ Set to implement TaRL during their School Based Studies placements in 2026

✨“People matter more than projects and places—we follow the people.” At our town hall, co-founders @noamangrist.bsky.social and Moitshepi Matsheng answer questions from the team, sharing lessons learned and thoughts on what the future holds for Youth Impact.

📖✨Celebrating International Literacy Day! After just one term of TaRL Literacy in Botswana, the percentage of students able to read a story jumped from 17% to 45%🥳 👉 Learn more about the TaRL Literacy program: www.youth-impact.org/teaching-at-... #InternationalLiteracyDay #FoundationalLearning

✨ Foundational learning is the key to thriving youth Moitshepi Matsheng, co-founder of Youth Impact, expands on our work with Teaching at the Right Level and how we share the @palnetworkhq.bsky.social vision: ensuring every child learns to read with understanding and do basic maths. 🧵

Great to speak at the Conference on Quantitative Education Research at Stellenbosch University in South Africa w/ a unique mix of researchers, policymakers & practitioners, to hear from the Minister of Education + a stunning mountain backdrop! @whatworksgrowth.bsky.social @youthimpactorg.bsky.social

Thanks to @palnetworkhq.bsky.social for featuring our co-founder Moitshepi Matsheng on their new Evidence Compass podcast series🎙️ 🎧 Listen here: 👉 YouTube: youtu.be/wyVxBq7BI4c?... #EvidenceCompassPodcast #DataForFoundationalLearning

Find out more about @noamangrist.bsky.social's (@blavatnikschool.bsky.social, @wwhglobaled.bsky.social @youthimpactorg.bsky.social) & co-authors' work on distance education across 5 countries.👇 www.csae.ox.ac.uk/building-res...

💡How do we make sure our team stays connected to the classroom, no matter their role? This week our team took part in our annual initiative where we return to the classroom to implement our programs: Choices, TaRL, and ConnectEd. ✨ #ngwanakopele #stayingconnected

Today we celebrate youth, tomorrow they change the world. Happy International Youth Day🌟 #ngwanakopele #InternationalYouthDay

📌 Highlights from the “Advancing Towards Outcomes-Based Education” Panel Discussion Yesterday we brought together leading voices from government, civil society, and the international community to reflect on how evidence can inform and scale what works in education. 🧵

📢 Proud to support the 9th International Workshop on Adolescence, SRHR & HIV 2025 taking place 1–3 October 2025 in Gaborone, Botswana! Having delivered our proven HIV program Choices for 11 years, it's a treat to see this conference come to our global headquarters Gaborone, Botswana. 🧵

🚀 Scaling innovations, strengthening systems 📣 Our Q2 newsletter is live! Dive into updates from across our programs, new research and more. 📰 Read it here: mailchi.mp/youth-impact... #YouthImpact #ScalingWhatWorks #EducationForAll #EvidenceInAction

Thrilled to be featured in The Times of India for the statewide rollout of Ganitha Ganaka in Karnataka! 📢🎉 🚀Great to see government commitment to evidence based education. 🔗Read the full article here: timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mangalu...

📰 Hot off the press (almost)… Our next newsletter is brewing with the latest insights, updates, and opportunities. Want in?🤩 We’ll slide into your inbox only when it’s worth it. ✍️ Sign up here: mailchi.mp/youth-impact... #QuarterlyNewsletter #YouthImpactUpdates

🗨️“My teacher taught me very well. She listened and explained the solutions when I got them wrong. I am now able to answer exercises in class.” - Caleb, mEducation student. #FoundationalLearning #Partnerships #mEducation

From thoughtful exchange to bold new ideas 💪 our team returns from the @theagencyfund.bsky.social AI4GD Midpoint Sprint inspired and energized. We're excited for what's coming ahead 🚀 #AIforDevelopment www.linkedin.com/posts/the-ag...