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Our third and final visit of 2026 to the Kwena Basin project marked a pivotal transition in our journey with local educators.
Our September classroom and ECD visits reveal encouraging progress and the vital role of ongoing support in turning new teaching approaches into lasting practice.
Teachers found the Letter domain practical, engaging and empowering, giving them new ways to understand and mediate letter development with their learners.
31 August 2026
“The training is very good and understandable. I think our learners will benefit greatly when we go back to class.”
There is an important difference between giving a child an answer and helping them develop the thinking needed to find the answer themselves.
For decades, cognitive education has debated whether cognitive skills should be taught separately from academic content or embedded within children's everyday learning.
Position learning helps children experience concepts, talk about them and think through different perspectives.
The Basic Concepts Foundation recently completed its fourth round of support visits to schools participating in the MEED project
Concept Builders
17 September 2026 to 21 October 2026
Building the foundations for learning - Open for Registration
Basic Concepts Foundation has launched its first school-based Concept Builders intervention in Cape Town

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We were taught the theory as well as the practice.  I now feel confident to start to implement the programme with my class and even with my nieces and nephews.

Mitchell's Plain Primary School, November 2015

Very informative, well presented, engaging, coherent and thought provoking.

Metro South Training, Western Cape Education Department, 2015

I understand now that teaching is not just standing in front of the class, but a discussion/ dialogue with your children.

Metro South Education District: Teacher Training, May 2014

I learned a new language to use with my learners.

Metro Central: Training, October 2014

Louis I salute you. I am empowered by the presentation. Never a dull moment even though the weather was hot. I've already implemented the programme with my learners.

Metro Central Training: Western Cape Education Department (February, 2016)

‘It is an excellent programme. Just a pity that not all reception year educators are exposed to the training. My understanding of the programme- it is developed to systematically mediate concepts so that learners are guided to develop an understanding and so that learning is meaningful.’ (Metro Central, 2012)

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