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With a strong commitment to driving a positive impact in underprivileged communities in Uganda, Timothy Wambi was recently nominated for the Top 40 Under 40 Ugandans by the national News Paper Newvision.

He is the founder of Ajibu Community- a community-based organization dedicated to championing quality education for children by developing engaging and hands-on play and learning resources as well as teachers’ competencies in ensuring better learning outcomes for children.

Ajibu Community provides educational opportunities to children who wouldn't have received any education at all, the community develops and distributes play and learning resources to make learning engaging and meaningful for children. They also run community workshops on early childhood education and train rural parents on purposeful home-based learning.

Timothy envisions a world where all children have the tools to succeed and change the world.

Link to Ajibu Community:

https://ajibucommunity.org/

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Kavita is a classroom educator and co-founder of Catalyst learning labs, which guides school leaders and teachers through a cultural transformation that reconnects them to their original passion for learning, leading to increased student engagement and academic achievement.

With Kavita’s guidance, educators around the world and the young people they learn with come alive with curiosity, confidence and creativity; preparing students to be the empowered creative problem solvers that the world needs.

Links:

https://www.linkedin.com/company/catalyst-learning-labs/

https://www.catalystlearninglabs.org/

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Dr Poppy Gibbson, an Education researcher, author and lecturer joins us for this episode.

Poppy shares her understanding of creativity creating new neural pathways, she agrees that creativity provides the opportunity for risk taking in safe environments and the opportunity to have fun. She highlights that collaborative creativity opens our minds to new ideas and it is from these new ideas we grow and make connections.

Poppy shares an interesting exercise she carried out over 7 years with trainee teachers which you can try with your own students.

Link to the research mentioned in this episode:

Pahl's study: https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=4867

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