Don't miss today's A/B testing workshop ‼️ #CIES2026

📏 When budgets are tight, regular & systematic implementation measurement is more essential than ever. Join us at a #CIES2026 workshop where we'll outline a practical approach with useful tools to help researchers & implementers track & compare implementation across a range of education programmes.

Join us on 29 March for a hands-on workshop on A/B testing at #CIES2026 📊 We’ll break down what A/B testing is, share real examples from our work and partners, and explore how you can use it to deepen impact, reduce costs, and scale more effectively. #IterativeTesting #ImplementationScience

🌍 Youth Impact at CIES 2026 We’re thrilled to be back at CIES this year, joining several sessions to share insights from our work. See our full session schedule 👇 #CIES2026 #GlobalEducation #FoundationalLearning #EvidenceInAction #YouthImpact

Happening soon! 🚨 Register: www.wwhge.org/events/itera...

📍 Webinar: Iterative A/B Testing — A Practical Toolkit to Optimise What Works at Scale | 11 March 👉Register: www.wwhge.org/events/itera... @wwhglobaled.bsky.social @poverty-action.bsky.social @theagencyfund.bsky.social @noamangrist.bsky.social #IterativeTesting #Education #ImplementationScience

📽️Watch our Head of Research and Innovation, Claire Cullen, join the @voxdev.bsky.social Ideas in Development Podcast to discuss how India is leveraging AI for development: voxdev.org/topic/techno... #AIForGood #EdTech #TeachingAtTheRightLevel #India #AI4Development

Reflections from the India AI Impact Summit 2026 ✨ Last week, we joined changemakers from across the Global South to explore how AI can drive real social impact. A key highlight? Presenting Ganitha Ganaka (ConnectEd) and our experiments with an AI-led assessment bot. #IndiaAIImpactSummit

📈Scaling What Works: Institutionalizing mEducation in Public Education Systems Join this webinar hosted by @hundredorg.bsky.social and @poverty-action.bsky.social , featuring our co-founder @noamangrist.bsky.social, to explore what it takes to institutionalise what works.

📢 Save the date: the What Works Hub for Global Education Conference 2026 will take place on 15–16 September this year! 📍 The conference will be held at the Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford, UK, & it will be accessible online. #WWHGEConf26 #ImplementationScience

💡What happens when educators unite around 1 goal; improving numeracy for every learner? Last week in South East Botswana, 95 teachers & Heads of Department from 20 schools came together for TaRL numeracy training, ready to strengthen foundational maths skills in the classroom.

💡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