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PRISA Panama Programme

Programme for Integral and Socioemotional Learning Recovery – PRISA is an initiative jointly promoted by SUMMA and the Ministry of Education of Panama, and seeks to strengthen the educational policy of this country in the context of the return to face classes, providing schools and teachers with pedagogical tools that have a solid research evidence base, and that contribute to strengthening the recovery work of weakened or lost learning.

What is it?

Programme for Integral and Socioemotional Learning Recovery (PRISA) Panama
PRISA is a programme that provides the Panamanian educational system with tools that contribute to improving the teaching decisions of teachers and schools in order to make progress in the learning recovery from the beginning of the school year. In addition to the development of pedagogical resources for teachers, the programme develops a teacher training strategy and innovation proposals for schools that emerge from the most successful learning recovery programmes on our continent and in the world.

Go to meduca.pa/prisa

Project objectives

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To support the strengthening of Panama’s learning recovery policy in the context of the return to face-to-face classes.

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To strengthen teachers’ skills and competencies to address learning recovery through a professional development course and teaching resources.

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To guide the school system with respect to the implementation of effective programmes for levelling and learning recovery.

Impact on society

Development of teaching tools: development of teaching guidelines for the implementation of effective practices for learning recovery.

Programme dissemination: PRISA programme launch events in Panama

Regional scaling up: presentation of the programme at the CECC-SICA Panama meeting.

Availability of educational resources: development of a web ecosystem of educational resources for learning recovery, hosted on the Meduca portal.

Some figures

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Guidelines on effective teaching practices for learning recovery.

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Systematization of successful strategies and innovations in the learning recovery.

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Website with diverse resources to guide teachers and schools in the learning recovery.

Strategic partners

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Francesca Bonomelli Carrasco

Senior Researcher at SUMMA

About Francesca Bonomelli Carrasco

Francesca Bonomelli Carrasco is a Senior Researcher at SUMMA, with a background in project management, public policies, and applied research. She is interested in equity and justice which is reflected in her work and research on education, employment, inequality, migration, and gender issues.

Her previous work experience includes coordinating an educational transformation project in Paraguay, her work as a consultant for UNESCO and the ILO, and her key roles in the Ministry of Education of Chile. Currently, at SUMMA, she focuses on supporting the development of educational policies and connecting research, practice, and educational policy.

She got a master’s degree in international development studies from the University of Amsterdam, she obtained a master’s degree in labor economics for Development from the University of Turin, and her bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Chile. All of which provide her with skills, technical tools, and diverse perspectives to contribute to the important work that SUMMA is pushing forward.

Paula Salas

Evaluation Project Coordinator

About Paula Salas

Paula Salas is Coordinator of Evaluation Projects at SUMMA. Her main experience is in educational research and development of assessment instruments. She worked as an analyst at the Measurement Center of the Catholic University (MIDE UC) and for four years at the Department of Psychology of the University of Chile in various research projects, aimed at the development of psychoeducational assessment instruments to support high school students. High School Humanist Scientist and Professional Technician in the process of transition to higher education.

She is a psychologist from the University of Chile and has a master’s degree in Social Research Methods from University College London (UCL).