Help Square the Education Pyramid

Your support will help build local communities and enable children in under-resourced communities to gain access to resources that can improve their literacy skills.

Squaring the Education Pyramid Institute (STEPi) is an organisation that aims to make sure children are prepared, willing, and happy when they reach adulthood.

  • PREPARED.

    STEPi is for people who really want the tools to help create a world of peace, compassion, justice, resilience, happiness, and thriving sustainability for everyone, now and all future generations.

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  • WILLING.

    We want to create resources that guide children to develop character strengths, resilience, and self-empowerment skills. We help children become confident and willing in their ability to learn to square the education pyramid so that everyone can reach a world of opportunity. 

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  • HAPPY.

    We intend to create and maintain a culture and environment where the child feels connected, valued, respected, and loved; where the child’s talents and abilities are nurtured so the child can thrive physically, emotionally, spiritually, and mentally.

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At STEPi, we believe it's time to create an inclusive education system based on the science of brain development, early childhood studies, and the science behind positive education, positive psychology, and social emotional intelligences. We do this by creating resources and hosting workshops that build and inspire important life skills and intelligences in children and the adults in their lives, such as parents, caregivers, teachers, and community leaders. 

Latest News and Highlights

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Bringing “Joy” to Children Through Books
Bringing “Joy” to Children Through Books

Joy is a champion in her community. She is the Miss Popularity Youth+ 2022 award winner, an award dedicated to youths living with HIV/AIDS who have overcome the shame and ridicule often associated with people who receive that diagnosis, and how they have turned their diagnosis into positive social change in their communities. She joined one of our STEPi Coordinators in Uganda on a roadtrip promoting peer to peer interaction about literacy, reading, education and appropriate relationships to encourage a growth mindset for the children to ensure academic excellence.

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Impact of Uplift in Communities
Impact of Uplift in Communities

The STEPi Coordinators and Ambassadors in Uganda embarked on a journey to help improve the relationships between parents and children, as well as the relationships between parents and teachers. Five schools in different districts of Uganda were approached by the Coordinators and their teams, including Uplift Ambassadors, to host positive parenting workshops, introduce and encourage literacy and reading programs in the different communities and encourage positive parent-teacher conversations.

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Reading Resources = Improved Vocabulary
Reading Resources = Improved Vocabulary

Esther reads the word ‘mark’ as ‘make’. And Doreen reads, ‘curious’ as ‘carious’. The two courageous girls are among the best readers at Ibanda Primary school in the Kikuube district of mid-western Uganda. They can read but mechanically for their colleagues, with much confidence and love although they cannot explain the meaning of most of the words they can read. Read more about how our community engagement coordinator in Uganda is inspiring children to enjoy story books while creating vocabulary banks.

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