Wajir County schools Performance Turn-Around Plan 2014-15

Focus Area

Challenges Identified

Education
Management

Recommended Action
Plan

Expected
Outcomes

Responsibility

Time
Frame

Ineffective leadership, Illiterate Radically review

BOMs, Political Boards,
composition of BOM as
Uncommitted Boards
per Act, Enforce regular
meetings, Remove Politics
from appointments.

Improved Board
Participation in
School
Management

County
Director of
Education

By September
2014

Mismanagement of school
funds, Mismanagement of
school resources e.g textbooks
, school vehicles, food and
other materials.
Truancy, Disrespect of
teachers, Students renting
premises outside schools
(Kejas)

Ant-corruption campaign
in Schools

Better use of
school resources
and reduced
wastage

County
Director of
Education /
Engage EAC

Immediately

Enforcement of school
routine, Community
awareness about truancy,
Formation of truancy
enforcement police

Increased school
attendance and
better discipline of
students

County
Executive for
Education
/Headteachers

Immediately

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Few local teachers, high rate of
transition to other professions
(NGOs, County Govt,
Universities), Few Teachers
and many schools, Low
Teacher pupil ratio,
Mushrooming clan schools

Scholarships for teachers

training, Establishment of
teacher training college in
Wajir, Employment of
qualified non-local
teachers

Increased teaching
staff in schools

County
By December
Executive for
2015
Education/Cou
nty Director of
Education/TSC

Lack of community ownership

in schools

Community awareness,
community weeks in
schools.

Engagement of
community in the
running of schools

Political interference and

patronage

Non-interference treaty
to be signed by all
politicians in transfers and
promotions

County
immediately
Executive for
Education/Cou
nty Director of
Education/PTA
s
MPs/Governor/ By September
Senator/Wome 2014
n/Other
important
leaders

Lack of Quality Assurance

Officers

Role of Parents

Lack of participation of
parents in School planning

Promote meritbased promotions

and transfers.
Enhances
motivation of
teachers
Employ more quality
Ensures high
assurance officers,
standards of
outsource quality assurance quality of teaching
work to consultants
and learning is
maintained
Parents awareness and
counseling. Require
parents to attend parent
days, join PTAs and be
active in their child
education

Ensures
monitoring of
learners at home
and at school,
uplifts morale of
learners.

County
Director of
Education/Cou
nty Executive
for Education

By January 2015

Headteachers,
BOMs and
PTAs

Immediately

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Lack of home care and

mentoring for children, absent
fathers, effect of parental
disputes.

Holistic societal approach

to childcare.
Establishment of
mentorship services in
schools

Ensures motivated
learning and
enhances child
social
development

Debilitating illiteracy,
inability/inadequate skills to
monitor children learning

Establishment of massive
literacy drives in all
settlements, ECD Teachers
to teach adult learners

Parents not enforcing

discipline, parents siding with
their children in cases of
discipline

Sensitizing parents on
effects of indiscipline on
the performance on their
children

Increase literacy in
the community,
enhances
appreciation for
education and
learning
Discipline
enhances learning
and leads to higher
performance

Parental Guidance lacking in

many homes

Sensitization programme
through Mosques,
community meetings and
social services visits, Talk
shows on radios etc

Creates better
environment for
learners at home

Headteachers,
Imams, County
Social Services
Unit, County
Director of
Education,
PTAs, BOMs
County
Executive for
Education

Immediately

County
Executive for
Education,
NGOs, County
Social
Services,
Imams,
Opinion
Leaders
County
Executive for
Education,
NGOs, County
Social
Services,
Imams,
Opinion

immediately

Immediately as
directed by
Governor at the
conference.

immediately

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Leaders

Teacher
productivity/Le
arners Outcome

Disproportionate allocation of
teachers in schools, Lack of
adequate teachers in many
schools, Unqualified PTA
teachers

Balancing of available
teachers among schools
both in number and
subjects, Hiring of more
teachers regardless of
source

Creates fairness in
allocation of
resources as well
as balanced
performance in
examinations

County
Director of
Education,
TSC, KNUT

Immediately

De-motivation, non-merit
based promotions and
transfers, non-local teachers
have no hope of becoming a
head-teacher

Emphasis of merit-based
promotion irrespective of
county of origin of teacher.
Provide rewards and
incentives to best
performing teachers

Increases
motivation of
teachers

County
Director of
Education,
TSC, KNUT

Immediately

Curriculum coverage is low,

low contact hours, low Early
grade reading and Early grade
mathematics (Reading &
Writing Schools)

Emphasis on teacher
preparation, Increased
hours of contact, Emphasis
on syllabus coverage,
Employ qualified ECD
Teachers, Train more ECD
teachers.

Enhances
performance in
national
examinations,
Leads to better
learning.

Headteachers
(Contact,
Syllabus),
County
Director of
Education
(Curriculum
Enforcement)
County
Executive for
Education
(ECD)

Immediately
County Promised
their part at the
Conference
through
Governor.

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Absenteeism of teachers

Maintain Staff Attendance

Register (Introduce
Clocking Hour System).

Enhances hours of
contact and
syllabus coverage

Lack of preparation for

examinations, lack of
confidence of students in
facing exams

Rigorous teaching,
supervised preps, mock
exams on week one of
every term, introduction of
common tests in all
subjects, bench-marking
against best schools.

Enhances
performance in
national
examinations

Negative peer influence

leading to social problems like
drug abuse in schools

Motivation talks,
mentoring and coaching,
parent to take more interest
in character development
of children

Creates better
environment for
learners at home

Inability and unwillingness to

set and develop quality
assessments, inability to proper
reading and writing skills

Training teachers in
Examination setting,
introduce examination
department in schools with
a particular teachers incharge.

Enhances
performance in
national
examinations

Headteacher
through
directive from
County
Director of
Education
Headteachers
Teachers
BOMs
County
Executive for
Education
(Facilitation)

Immediately

Immediately

Headteachers, Immediately
Imams, County
Social Services
Unit, County
Director of
Education,
PTAs, BOMs
Headteachers
Immediately
Teachers
BOMs
County
Executive for
Education
(Facilitation)

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Physical
Facilities

Lack of career guidance in

terms of subject clusters,
importance of key subjects
(ENG, MATHS AND
SCIENCE)

Career Masters in
secondary schools, Career
Booklets to new students,
Enhance Core Subject
Teaching (Maths, Eng, and
Science), Introduce and
encourage cluster 4 and 5
subjects

Enhances
performance in
national
examinations and
increases
admissibility to
University

Headteachers
Teachers
BOMs /CDE
County
Executive for
Education
(Facilitation)

Immediately

Admission with very low

marks, as low 18%

Set minimum admission

criteria at reasonable marks
e.g 200 Marks, Establish
village polytechnics to
offer vocational training.

County
Director of
Education /
Headteachers

January 2015

Low Teacher/Student ratio:

Classes under trees (ICF
School as an example)

Repair and maintain

classrooms, build new
classes, Devote 80% CDF
to education

Increases the
quality of
transition to
secondary schools
and also provides
skills for school
dropouts
Provides
comfortable space
for teaching and
learning

County
Governor/MPs

January 2015

Schools without toilets, toilets

for female learners and
teachers.

Build standard number of

toilets for student
population. Separate toilets
for Female Students and
Female teachers; Build
ecologically appropriate
septic tanks in schools.

Provides
comfortable space
for teaching and
learning

County
Governor/MPs

January 2015

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National /
County
Resource/Fundi
ng

Inadequate learning materials,

lack of access to relevant
learning materials

Provide adequate number

of learning materials and
monitor its use and
distribution.

Lack of Library, Laboratory

equipments, Staff Housing,

Construct of Libraries,
Laboratories and Staff
Houses where lacking and
Equip them where
available

Lack of source of lighting in

many schools limiting the
hours of learning and studying.

Install Solar Panels as first

choice for lighting of
schools.

Inadequacy, Fees not received

by schools

Fee payment should be

100%, acceptance of fees
in kind and installment.

CDF Funds not sufficiently

covering schools

Equitable distribution of
CDF funds to schools.

Enhances
performance in
National
Examinations

MOEST, CDE,
County
Executive for
Education,
Donors,
BOMs, PTAs
Enhances
County
performance in
Governor/MPs
National
MOEST, CDE,
Examinations
County
Executive for
Education,
Donors,
BOMs, PTAs
Enhances
County
performance in
Governor/MPs
National
MOEST, CDE,
Examination by
County
creating longer
Executive for
hours of studying
Education,
Donors,
BOMs, PTAs
More resources
Headteachers/
will be available to CDE
schools in terms of
A-in-A

January 2015

More resources to
schools for
infrastructure and
learning materials

Immediately

MPs/CDF
Committees

January 2015

Immediately

Immediately

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ECDE not funded sufficiently
to cover the whole county

Cross Cutting
Issue

Prioritize funding to ECDE

centres, and ensure an
ECDE centre in every
village where there is a
school.

Enhances reading
County
and writing skills
Executive for
at Kindergarten
Education
level leading better
learning at Primary
level

July 2014

Girls enrolment, discrimination Provide equal opportunity

on choice to educate by society to both gender, use
religious scholars to create
awareness on the virtues of
educating the girl-child.

Increases Girls
Imams,
enrolment and
Political
access to education Leaders,
Women Rep.
MP

Immediately

Poor reading culture

Supervised reading in
classrooms, cultural reorientation towards
reading.

Better learning of
languages and
enhanced
performance in
examinations

Headteachers /
Classroom
teachers/CDE

Immediately

Miraa usage by teachers,

parents and learners

Regulate Miraa sale and

consumption in the County
through legislation; Come
up with bylaws
criminalizing selling of
Miraa to minors or selling
near schools, establish
rehabilitation centres for
Miraa addicts.

Reduces the use of

Miraa by students
and teachers
Increases
commitment of
teachers and
concentration of
learners

County
Assembly/Cou
nty Executive
for
Education/Cou
nty Governor

Immediately

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Misuse of technology, Phones
in Schools, Facebook, Twitter,
WhatsApp, Viber and other
Social Media

Ban phones in schools, and

any phones found within
the schools should be
destroyed immediately in
front of the owner with two
witnesses

Discourage
children from
bringing phones to
school and
increase
concentration on
learning

Directive from
County
Director of
Education to
Headteachers.

Immediately

Misguided perception on
formal education

Integration of Duksi and

madrassa in formal
education as per the
education Act.

Reduces the
burden on students
and parents,
increases
acceptability of
formal education

Immediately

Lack of role models

Expose the students/pupils

to role models from within
the society through
motivational talks, video
shows and books.

Creates hopeful
perception about
the future, creates
someone to
emulate, guides
actions towards
specific careers

County
Director of
Education/Cou
nty Executive
for
Education/Reli
gious leaders
Headteachers,
PTAs, BOMs,
Friends of
Education
Sector in Wajir
County

Early marriages among school

girls.

Discourage early marriages

through appropriate
communication; Enforce
the children Act on early
marriages.

Provides girls with

more time to finish
school and develop
careers.

Immediately

County
Immediately
Governor/MPs
MOEST, CDE,
County
Executive for
Education,
Donors,
BOMs, PTAs,
Imams, County
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Kadhi

Establishment
of University

Politically instigated ethnic

clashes

Use the laid down

mechanisms and
innovative ones to mitigate
such clashes

Creates peaceful
and predictable
environment for
learning

Identification of host
institution

Wajir County Leadership

through this forum,
requests the establishment
of a Public University in
the County.
A host institution for the
University has been
identified as Sabunley
Secondary School. All the
students of the school will
be absorbed by the nearby
schools

Creation of a
Public University
in Wajir County
funded by the
Government

Follow up with CUE and

MOEST

Governor and the Senator

to follow up with MOEST
and CUE..

CUE has requested

to meet the two
leaders for purpose
of land and
infrastructure to

County
Governor/MPs
MOEST, CDE,
County
Executive for
Education,
Donors,
BOMs, PTAs
County
Governor and
The County
Senator

Immediately

County
Governor and
The County
Senator

Immediately

Immediately

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begin the
University

Appendix 1: Enhancing Learning outcomes within classrooms and increasing student performance
Checklist for school Principals and school community. Amina H. Ibrahim- UNICEF.
Focus area
for
Improvement
1 Effective
school
leadershipSetting
common goals
for school
community.

Action

Effect

Responsible

Students, teachers and management

committees meet and set common
shared targets- discipline- rules, mean
grade improvement targets for school
and per subject etc.
Re-visit both instructional and
administrative leadership of the
school- all emphasis should be on
common vision to improving
instruction and learning outcomes.

Creates common beliefs,

values and direction for
the schools

Head teacher in
collaboration with BoG,
Teachers and school student
leadership

Clarity of roles and

common purpose,
accountability by different
players

Principal with support from

BoG and Education Officeinvolving students
leadership.

Time line

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2 Setting high
expectations
for students

3 Align
curriculum,
classroom
level subject
instruction and
education
assessments
with schools
goals
4 Personalized
student/teacher
instruction
process

Create Team work amongst teachers,

peer to peer teacher mentorship on
subject teaching skills, student ability
clusters etc.
Provide an ambitious and rigorous
learning schedule, high learning
standards and targets per subject.

Lesson plans are aligned to

curriculum targets & requirements,
common understanding of
assessments by teachers, quality
assurance officers and school
leadership;

Student teacher relationship

improved, personalized learning
environment; Increased student
contact time, identification of weak
students for more support; create
extra learning hours outside normal
class hours for catch up classes,
accelerated syllabus coverage on time
close, frequent and regular subject
assessments/monitoring tests set by
teachers and quality assurance
support by education officers etc.

Strengthens teachers
Head of departments/
skills, connects teachers to Deputy principals and
school vision for results,
student leadership
Inculcates work ethics,
holds each subject teacher
and learner accountable;
reduces indiscipline all
round activities for
students
Joint understanding,
targets and setup for
syllabus coverage, focus
of assessments and creates
purpose/sequence for
assessments. Improved
results.

BOG & Education Officials

in collaboration with school
principal, students and
teachers

Targeted teaching that is

child centred and
curriculum coverage
focused

Subject teachers and head of

departments under
Principals leadership.
Ministry of educationcounty level.

Tracking of school plan

for improvement, teacher
capacity strengthening;
teaching is also adjusted
based on assessment
results

Ministry of education at
county and school teaching
fraternity under principals
leadership.

School principal in
collaboration with teachers
and student leadership.

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5 Mentorship
and role
modelling

6 Teacher
Development
support

School alumni talks, once a week

targeted confidence
building/motivational programs at
schools- Career guidance, visiting
experts, appraising positive
behaviour, rewarding and motivation
awards/talks etc.; targeted video
shows that reinforce positive values,
beliefs and attitudes
Teacher refresher courses, in school
mentorship by teachers from good
performing schools- Alliance etc.;
holiday school planning sessions

School community visions Alumni, ministry, BoG and

success together, real life
community leaders, wellexperience of speakers
wishers etc.
give hope and possibility
of future for students

Staff motivation,
improved instruction
quality, peer to peer
learning from top schools.

School principal, head

teachers and staff.

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