
Teacher development or learner programmes: where does CSI reach further?
Teacher development versus learner programmes: Kole Montano lays out the honest comparison, including where her own argument loses.
From the evidence base behind our approach to the voices of the teachers using kolab. every day.


Teacher development versus learner programmes: Kole Montano lays out the honest comparison, including where her own argument loses.

Education receives 44% of South African CSI spend. Kole Montano on how that money divides once it arrives, and what the divide reveals.

Of 39 teachers asked how they set spelling tests, none reported a creative or differentiated format. Teachers work with what the system places in their hands.

South Africa's 2026 national reading survey found that 30% of learners in Grades 1 to 3 read at grade level in their home language. Kole Montano on why the earliest grades decide the rest.

Why the same number that makes teacher development attractive to funders, a teacher reaches an estimated 1 155 learners over a 35-year career, also raises the bar for what kolab. builds.

Kole Montano on why kolab. was built for Foundation Phase teachers rather than learners - and why teacher development in South Africa is slower than funders expect.