DabbleCommuniShare
Cyclical teacher mentorship in Uganda, where shared experience becomes the currency that funds better learning.
The need
Uganda’s new competency-based curriculum asks for project-based teaching, but under-resourced schools can’t fund the training to get there — and the mentorship that does exist often feels top-down and punitive. The skill to teach differently is already in the community; it just isn’t moving between people.
The approach
Working on the ground with Learning Hub Uganda, Maggie co-designed a model of cyclical mentorship: every educator is both a mentor and a mentee, so shared experience becomes the resource that funds better teaching — no budget required.
- Participatory co-design with educators
- Needfinding inside real classrooms
- Iterative prototypes tested in the field
The artifact
A set of prototypes piloted at Learning Hub Uganda — Community Walls, Marble Moments, co-design workshops, and a Mentorship Tree framework that helps a school surface and circulate the expertise already distributed across its people.
Why it matters
CommuniShare reframes mentorship from a scarce, hierarchical resource into something every educator can both give and receive — a way for under-resourced schools to grow from within.
“I never thought of mentorship as something I could offer someone else.”
Educator, CommuniShare pilot
