TichaCraft
Find promising practice. Test it across classrooms. Spread what works.
TichaCraft is the flagship teacher-led Evidence-to-Scale model of the Peter Tabichi Foundation. It starts from the recognition that promising classroom practice can already exist within teachers and schools. TichaCraft helps identify that practice, strengthen and test it, learn whether it can work across different classrooms, and support wider use where the evidence is sufficiently strong.
How TichaCraft Works
Discover & Verify
Define a specific learning challenge. Identify exemplary teachers already getting unusually promising results under similar constraints, then understand what they do differently and the teaching practice they use.
Strengthen & Test
PTF together with the exemplary teacher adapt the practice for curriculum alignment, inclusion and feasibility. This is done by testing it in a real classroom conditions, collecting evidence and improving it through short cycles of reflection and adaptation.
Replicate & Learn
Other teachers within each PLC cluster test and adapt the practice in different classroom contexts. This helps determine what can be replicated, what needs further adaptation and what conditions influence results.
Spread & Embed
Practices with sufficiently strong evidence can be shared more widely through teacher networks, schools and engagement with education-system actors.
Teachers at the Centre
Teachers are not simply recipients of the TichaCraft programme. They help identify classroom challenges and promising practice, test and adapt approaches, gather evidence, reflect on what is changing, and learn with other teachers through Professional Learning Communities.
A standard TichaCraft cohort
Teachers whose promising practices and experience help initiate the learning process
Teachers who test, adapt and strengthen practices across classrooms
Five PLCs of 10 teachers each for structured testing, reflection and shared learning
From One Classroom to Wider Learning
TichaCraft does not assume that a practice should spread simply because it worked once. Wider sharing follows testing, adaptation, replication and learning from evidence.
Where TichaCraft Works
TichaCraft can be applied across learning priorities and cross-cutting themes — including Foundational Numeracy, STEAM Education, Inclusivity, Social-Emotional Resilience, and Environmental Responsibility — while using the same Evidence-to-Scale approach. Depending on learner needs and context, the promising practices identified may take the form of classroom routines or pedagogical approaches, and may draw on low-cost, contextually relevant learning resources and appropriate EdTech.
TichaCraft focuses not only on finding promising practice, but on learning whether that practice can travel beyond the classroom where it began.