BetterTogether.One Big Change.
A Kenyan-led framework helping schools turn national education priorities into consistent, sustainable practice.
Built to bring together
The hardest part of reform is making it work consistently.
Kenya has set the direction through Competency-Based Education.
The challenge now is helping schools with different strengths, resources and circumstances implement it successfully.
One Big Change identifies barriers, connects schools with the right support and helps share what works.
Recognition along the journey
Recognition received by LocaeRise and its leadership team.
Best European Startup
Global StartUp Awards
2025
Fastest Upcoming European Female Startup Leader
Global StartUp Awards
2025
Start-up of the Year
Precious Awards
2025
Start-up of the Year
South East StartUp Awards
2026
From identified need to practical support
Understand the need
Schools identify their strengths, barriers and priorities.
Coordinate support
The right people, expertise and resources respond.
Learn what works
Progress is reviewed and learning is shared.
Built on experience from our UK work
LocaeRise has worked alongside schools, educators, universities, innovation programmes and community organisations.
Reform is now being experienced in real schools.
Kenya's first CBE cohort entered Grade 10 Senior School in January 2026.
CBE, CBC and CBA are now moving from policy and curriculum design into everyday school practice.
Clear enough to implement. Early enough to improve.
Kenya has established the direction.
There is still time to learn, strengthen implementation and address barriers before they become embedded.
Helping make Competency-Based Education work in practice.
The education system
How the whole system develops the learner.
The curriculum in practice
How the curriculum becomes classroom practice.
Assessment for learning
How learners' progress and competencies are understood.
One Big Change helps schools identify what implementation requires and coordinate the support needed to make it work and last.
Explore CBE in PracticeOne direction. Many roles. Coordinated action.
National Direction
Kenya establishes the priority.
Change Lens
Schools identify strengths, barriers and needs.
Coordinated Support
Schools, experts, universities and partners respond together.
Evidence and Learning
Progress is reviewed and learning is shared.
Sustainable Practice
Schools build the capability to continue and support others.
One Big Change does not replace existing work.
It connects it.
“Kenya has designed the change. One Big Change helps schools deliver it together.”
Partnership and co-design phase
The wider programme will be shaped with Kenyan stakeholders.
From shared priority to sustained practice
A structured delivery system that turns a national education priority into consistent everyday practice across schools.
Three-month inception
Ten founding schools complete Change Lens assessments, identify barriers and shape the programme together.
Three termly workshops
One workshop per school term: understand and name the change, apply and strengthen, then embed and sustain.
Hub development
Each founding school becomes the centre of a local Hub, connecting partner schools for shared learning and resources.
Learning we are bringing forward
One Big Change Kenya builds on LocaeRise's work with UK schools, educators, universities and partners.
Convening the people who make change happen.
Bringing institutions, educators, experts and partners together around shared priorities.
Kenyan stories will be added as the work develops.
Until genuine Kenyan evidence exists, this section may feature approved UK learning, organisational milestones and research.
Convening the people who make change happen.
Bringing institutions, educators, experts and partners together around shared priorities.
One term. One update.
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Help shape the first phase
We are developing a proposed three-month phase with ten founding schools from different education contexts.
The work will identify what schools need and shape the programme that follows.
