Find promising practice.Test it across classrooms.Spread what works.
TichaCraft is the flagship work of the Peter Tabichi Foundation. It works with teachers to identify promising classroom practice, strengthen and test it across different classrooms, learn from the evidence, and help what works travel further.
TichaCraft
Promising classroom practice can already exist within schools and teachers. TichaCraft helps identify it, strengthen it, test whether it works beyond the originating classroom, and build learning that can support wider use.
Discover & Verify
Identify promising classroom practice and understand the challenge, context and approach behind it.
Strengthen & Test
Work with the identified exemplary teacher to adapt, improve and refine their promising practice; and test it in real classroom conditions before other teachers replicate it.
Replicate & Learn
Other teachers test, adapt and refine the practice across classrooms, generating evidence about what works and under what conditions.
Spread & Embed
Use sufficiently tested learning to support wider sharing, professional learning and adoption where appropriate.
Evidence & Learning
PTF uses evidence to understand what is changing, what appears to be working, what needs further testing, and how TichaCraft can continue to improve.
Teachers reached through TichaCraft
Learners reached through participating teachers
Matched Cohort 2 participants reported improvement after developing and testing a classroom practice
Cohort 2 findings are primarily based on matched programme participants and teacher-reported evidence and should be interpreted as evidence of contribution and feasibility rather than causal impact.
What we are learning
Teachers benefit from time, trust and peer support to test and improve practice. Replication by other teachers provides an important test of whether a practice can travel beyond its original classroom.
Teachers at the Centre
Teachers are not simply recipients of the TichaCraft progra. They help identify classroom challenges, test and adapt promising practices, gather evidence, reflect on what is changing, and learn with other teachers through Professional Learning Communities.
Working in Partnership
PTF works with partners who share an interest in strengthening teaching, generating useful classroom evidence and supporting wider learning from teacher-led practice.
University of Embu
Partnering on classroom-based pedagogical inquiry, action research methodology, and empirical evaluation of teacher-led innovations across Kenyan schools.
Help effective classroom practice travel further.
Partner with PTF to strengthen teacher-led improvement, generate useful evidence and support learning that can travel across classrooms and education systems.