Haiti Pilot: Blended Learning in Remote & Hybrid Environments

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From 2022–2025, Digital Promise and local and international partners implemented a blended learning pilot in Haiti to strengthen teacher capacity; deliver culturally relevant, standards-aligned, Haitian-Creole digital content; and improve accessibility to broadband connectivity and electricity for schools and school networks.

While the pilot has since come to a close, the vital work continues and is being led by Model School Network (MSN), Anseye Pou Ayiti (APA), Summits Education, and Blue Butterfly.

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The Challenge

While the right to education is enshrined in Haiti’s constitution and highly valued by Haitians, schools still reflect Haiti’s colonial past: traditional, lecture-based instruction, lessons delivered in French rather than students’ native Creole, and a deficit-based rather than culturally affirming curriculum are all the norm.

Moreover, faced with numerous disruptions due to COVID-19, natural disasters, and ongoing political unrest, the majority of Haitians lack devices, internet access, and digital tools and training that would allow them to transition to remote or hybrid learning. As a result, the gap is widening between wealthy and poor students.

A Haitian teacher leverages digital tools to deliver a classroom lesson. Photo credit: Anseye Pou Ayiti.

The Opportunity

All Haitian students deserve the right to a quality and continuous education that is a pathway to economic opportunity, wellbeing, and agency. With an initial grant from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation and additional support from the McNulty Foundation, from 2022–2025, Digital Promise convened partners working in Haiti – including Model School Network (MSN), Anseye Pou Ayiti (APA), Summits Education, and Blue Butterfly – to implement a blended learning pilot program.

We have learned from past efforts that technology alone does not improve education. This pilot focuses on how pedagogy, content, and technology can work together to enhance learning. Pilot goals included:

Improving Haitian teachers’ capabilities to use technology to deliver quality instruction.
Increasing the availability of culturally relevant and standards-aligned, Haitian-Creole digital content.
Increasing sustainable access to electricity and broadband connectivity for schools and teachers.

The approach emphasized applying lessons from past efforts and iterating over time to ensure that the results and impact are sustainable.

A Haitian teacher leads a lesson for young students. Photo credit: Anseye Pou Ayiti.

Teachers from Model School Network and Anseye Pou Ayiti participate in a blended learning training in Gonaives and Mirebalais, Haiti. Photo credit: Alfredo Adné Paul & Joseph Thierry Antoine

Highlights from the Pilot

11 rural primary schools

have reliable access to solar power, satellite internet connectivity, tablet devices, and classroom speakers.

75 teachers

received regular training and individualized coaching to develop their pedagogical skills.

1,375 students

are learning with interactive, relevant digital content in Haitian Creole.

100% of teachers

now feel comfortable or very comfortable using technology in the classroom. Teachers report increased student engagement and ownership of learning, better access to teaching tools, and a more positive classroom climate.

The Report on First Year Implementation and Results, compiled by Education Development Center (EDC), shares results from their monitoring and evaluation of year one of the pilot. Their analysis points to many promising results—including high student engagement in the observed lesson segments—as well as recommendations for future growth. Check out the executive summary!

“This project contributes to the physical, intellectual, and social development of the students. It develops children’s self-confidence and autonomy, enabling them to solve everyday problems.”

Renel Ylysse, Pedagogical Coach, Model School Network