CDB / CARICOM / OECS Model Learning Recovery and Enhancement Programme for Caribbean Schools (Let’s Reap)

To address the learning loss from unprecedented disruptions in education, the CDB,
CARICOM and OECS, commissioned a Learning Recovery and Enhancement Programme, abbreviated as L-R-EA-P and pronounced The focus of Let’s REAP! is to promote learning improvement in light of the challenges to education brought about by COVID-19. However, the programme also intends to address longer-standing issues which the pandemic has exacerbated, as well as to build the resilience of national education systems to the occurrence of other natural hazards (such as flooding, hurricanes, and volcanic activity) prevalent in the region. Let’s REAP!, therefore, seeks to Recover, Improve, Transform education in the Caribbean.

For Let’s REAP! to be effective, a multi-pronged approach must be taken, supporting national ministries, principals, and teachers; such a broad approach will set in motion processes that ultimately support learners to improve learning outcomes. In other words, Let’s REAP! is an intervention for children and young persons, but it is also an intervention for the system around the child: Teachers, principals, parents, community and government.

The implementation of Let’s REAP! will be driven by principals across OECS and CARICOM. Therefore, there is specific guidance on how to successfully execute the recovery programme is given in this document. This document is primarily aimed at principals, but it is also relevant for other school staff.