Ukraine: savED experts develop manuals to help teachers address students’ learning gaps
The charitable foundation savED has released a series of four teachers’ guides designed as a ready-to-use tool for Ukrainian teachers working to overcome learning gaps among schoolchildren. The series was developed as part of the project ‘Educational Recovery for Ukraine: Addressing Learning Loss in Digital Learning Centres’, implemented with financial support from the European Union.
The materials explain the essence of the problem of students’ missed learning and propose clear methodologies and approaches to address it. They also include sample lesson plans in several subjects – Ukrainian language, English language, mathematics, as well as Ukrainian history and civic education.
In addition to creating the manuals and holding consultations and webinars for teachers, one of the project’s key directions was the implementation of the CatchUp programme for schoolchildren in 20 educational centres, run by savED. These centres are located in war-affected communities in the Mykolaiv, Chernihiv, Kharkiv, Kyiv, and Dnipropetrovsk regions. Activities for children within the project began in April 2024 and continued until August 2025, covering several waves of CatchUp classes.
“According to savED’s 2025 study, 82% of school administrators acknowledge the presence of learning gaps among students,” said Anastasiia Onatii, Head of Educational Programmes and Analytics at savED. “We have been systematically working on this challenge for two years, implementing the CatchUp programme across seven regions of Ukraine. The programme has already reached more than 65,000 children.”
She added that the new series of manuals enables schools independently to launch the process of addressing learning gaps at local level, without requiring significant additional resources that educators often lack: “A teacher simply opens the manual and immediately sees concrete tools: how to work with students, which topics to prioritise, and which exercises to apply.”
The manuals are available free of charge in digital format. In addition, a number of printed copies will be distributed by savED experts to teachers in the regions.
savED is a charitable foundation working to restore life in war-affected communities through educational, social, and infrastructural solutions. The foundation equips shelters, educational centres, and temporary learning spaces, implements programmes to overcome learning gaps for schoolchildren, and engages young people in community recovery and development through the UActive programme. savED systematically operates in the Chernihiv, Kyiv, Mykolaiv, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, and Dnipropetrovsk regions.
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