Fcll
Strengthening child care, learning, and leadership in education systems
We partner with public systems to create learning environments at scale for children and adults, grounded in safety, care, inquiry, and mutual support.
Childcare
Strengthen nurturing care – health, nutrition, safety and security, responsive caregiving, and learning opportunities.
Learn more →Learning
Support meaning-making through observation, inquiry, reflection, and collaboration within a culture that respects learners.
Learn more →Leadership
Enable sustaining systems by developing personal mastery, pedagogical expertise, relational capacity, and implementation capability.
Learn more →Why this work matters
This work matters because equitable learning outcomes require long-term strengthening of pedagogy, leadership, individual capacities, and institutions as an interconnected system.
Children are shaped not only by programs, but by the emotional and leadership capacities of the systems around them.
- When institutions lack capacity and are overwhelmed, rushed, or fragmented, children pay the price.
- Fcll works at this invisible layer — supporting people and systems to hold complexity with care and responsibility.
What we do
- Work with educators and system leaders through long-term capacity-building
- Facilitate reflective spaces for learning, leadership, and care
- Support institutions navigating complexity and transition
- Build shared understanding across child care, learning, and leadership
Our impact
- Multi-year engagements with early childhood and primary education systems
- Thousands of educators and leaders supported through sustained partnerships
- Public systems and NGOs strengthened as learning institutions
- Measurable shifts in practice, leadership capacity, and institutional functioning over time
“I was once a strong critic of this program and its methodology. Today, I see young children—starting as early as age three—walking into classrooms with confidence… By keeping the child at the heart of the system, we are witnessing not just improvement in a few schools, but a quiet, powerful transformation across the system.”
Our experience
Our team has over 15 years of experience in:
- Development of context sensitive pedagogical approaches for preschools, primary and middle schools.
- Pedagogical capacity building of educators in public systems and civil society organizations.
- Long term partnerships with large public systems for strengthening system capacity for implementation.