ABSTRACT
The Lebanese public education system has sustained years of challenges, including a massive influx of Syrian refugees into schools, political unrest, the collapse of the economy, the covid pandemic, and the port explosion of 2020. An intervention of teacher training and teaching and learning materials distribution aimed to improve reading instruction in grades 1–6. This study examined the English reading scores of grades 1–6 school children, as well as the extent to which teachers had adopted techniques from the teacher training. Results indicate that only around 27% of children had reached the prerequisite learning objectives for their current grade level. Teachers whose students had higher test scores reported benefitting particularly from the classroom management effects of the social and emotional learning approaches they had learned about through the teacher training.
