EMiLe Senegal

This EMiLe project (Education Multi-Langue) aims to raise learning outcomes by developing and implementing a multilingual education (MLE) transfer curriculum which first enables children to acquire reading, writing and math skills in a familiar language.  The curriculum then teaches the children to apply those learning skills, concepts, and attitudes to learning and functioning in the official language, French.  This innovation currently functions on the micro level (complimented by comparative data) and is disruptive in that no such curriculum currently exists in Senegal, or in many countries of West Africa.  (EMiLe could also be understood as incremental in that MLE in east Africa is the policy norm, though rarely implemented.)