The system teaches grade-level content regardless of readiness.
A Grade 4 student reading at Grade 1 level receives Grade 4 curriculum, and falls further behind every single day.
Every lesson is gibberish.
Every day is failure.
Every year, the gap widens.
This is an emergency. We have two solutions: putting up community learning and leadership centers and running teacher training in partnership with the Department of Education.
Centers
We put up community learning and leadership centers.
Our centers act as our learning labs, where low-performing but high-potential public school students catch up through free after-school learning programs.
Teacher Training
We run teacher training in partnership with the Department of Education.
Read about our case studies with San Miguel Foundation's Better World Smokey Mountain and Ramon Aboitiz Foundation Inc and the School Division of Cebu City's Kita ang Pag-bag-O.
Our Empathy Informed Learning System
AHA Learning Center helps Filipino public school students catch up with their studies through free after-school learning programs.
Our team paves the way for education support with three major interventions.
Learn More →Every child, measured. Baseline to endline.
Our centers act as our learning labs. We teach at the right level, so we measure by level. Here is this year, tracked child by child and updated the moment a teacher encodes a class.
Each dot is one learner. Left to right is the climb. Live from the masterfile.
From our centers to 522 schools.
What we prove in our learning labs scales through public schools nationwide: Teaching at the Right Level, run with the Department of Education and our partners. From the TaRL Progress Report, SY 2024-2025.
| Subject | Level | Baseline | Midline | Endline |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Literacy | Beginner | 1,305 | 170 | 41 |
| Literacy | Letter | 1,408 | 960 | 472 |
| Literacy | Word | 2,114 | 2,196 | 1,439 |
| Literacy | Paragraph | 1,120 | 1,986 | 2,109 |
| Literacy | Story (graduate level) | 184 | 767 | 1,749 |
| Numeracy | Beginner | 293 | 40 | 3 |
| Numeracy | 1-Digit | 698 | 251 | 77 |
| Numeracy | 2-Digit | 3,340 | 2,082 | 932 |
| Numeracy | Subtraction | 982 | 2,535 | 2,634 |
| Numeracy | Division (graduate level) | 52 | 384 | 1,273 |
Learners at Beginner fell from over a thousand to nearly zero. Learners at the highest levels grew 10 to 24 times. Teaching at the right level moves children forward.
Cebu City
Kita ang Pag-bag-O, with the School Division of Cebu City, is the largest single-site implementation in the program.
How you can help
Join our cause and be part of the solution. Explore your options below or reach us directly at ahalearningcenter.wfh@gmail.com and partners@ahalearningcenter.com
Our partners
We are joined by some of the country's most prominent foundations to provide the best education support possible. Meet the partners supporting our students with us!
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