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The BE² August 2026 newsletter highlights key events, updates, and shared materials from our members and the education sphere, focusing on advancing evidence use in education.

The BE² July 2026 newsletter highlights key events, updates, and shared materials from our members and the education sphere, focusing on advancing evidence use in education.

At the June 2026 meeting of BE²’s Education Workforce Special Interest Group, Professor Yuli Tamir explored the growing global teacher shortage and argued that it reflects not only recruitment challenges but also deeper changes in how younger generations view work. The discussion highlighted how evolving career expectations, advances in AI, and increasing social pressures are reshaping the teaching profession. Participants considered how education systems might redesign teaching roles to offer greater autonomy, purpose, and flexibility, while reinforcing teachers’ essential role as mentors, guides, and trusted facilitators of learning in an increasingly complex world.

The BE² June 2026 newsletter highlights key events, updates, and shared materials from our members and the education sphere, focusing on advancing evidence use in education.

Building Evidence in Education (BE²) and the Zenex Foundation convened funders, researchers, and practitioners to explore how philanthropy can make smarter, evidence-informed investment choices in contexts of constrained resources. Discussions highlighted the importance of cost-effectiveness, implementation, system-level change, and responsible AI in supporting evidence use and decision-making.

Implementation research is essential for helping education systems understand not just whether interventions work, but how, why, and under what conditions they succeed at scale. In complex and dynamic education contexts, it provides critical insights into implementation processes, stakeholder perspectives, and system-level challenges that influence outcomes. This guidance note offers a practical framework for designing and integrating implementation research into education interventions, outlining key principles, research approaches, and strategies for adaptive, evidence-informed implementation.

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👉 Download in Arabic – حمل مذكرة التوجيه حول استخدام البحوث التنفيذية في التعليم

👉 Download in Russian – Скачать методическое руководство по применению исследований внедрения в образовании

The BE² May 2026 newsletter highlights key events, updates, and shared materials from our members and the education sphere, focusing on advancing evidence use in education.

The BE² April 2026 newsletter highlights key events, updates, and shared materials from our members and the education sphere, focusing on advancing evidence use in education.

Qualitative research is essential for helping education systems understand not just what works, but how, why, and under what conditions interventions succeed. In complex and context-specific settings, it provides critical insights into lived experiences, social dynamics, and implementation processes that quantitative methods alone cannot capture. This guidance note offers a practical framework for designing and conducting high-quality qualitative research in education, outlining key methodologies, processes, and ethical considerations.

👉 Download the Qualitative Guidance Note in English

👉 Download the Qualitative Guidance Note in Arabic

حمل مذكرة التوجيه النوعي باللغة العربية👈

👉 Download the Qualitative Guidance Note in Russian

👉 Скачать методическое пособие по качественным исследованиям на русском языке

The working paper Responsible AI in Education: Evidence Synthesis and Use in Low- and Middle-Income Countriesshifts attention away from AI as a tool for efficiency and toward a deeper question: how evidence is interpreted, trusted, and used in policy contexts. In many education systems, the challenge is not a lack of data but weak relational infrastructure – the spaces and capacities that allow policymakers, researchers, and practitioners to make sense of evidence together.

Written by: Sreehari Ravindranath (Director, Research and Impact, Dream a Dream, India)