Guinea is a nation of stark realities.
Nearly 55 percent of school-age children do not attend school. It is in this tiny nation on the west coast of Africa that Assistant Dean Jack Schwille has spent the past year implementing a program to improve the quality of teaching. Schwille has helped the Guineans implement a professional development program that organizes teachers into teams to determine needs and develop plans to meet those needs. With the help of Schwille and Dembele, the Guineans have developed a small grants program to which teacher team submit proposals for funding of professional development activities. Schwille has helped the Guinean education officials develop parameters and manuals for the program from conceptual to workable.