Expanding the Network and Addressing Feedback

Abstract

With the exception of the teacher’s guide for the eighth grade, all curriculum materials needed for the civic education teachers’ training were completed. The teacher trainers from school districts around the country were instructed on how to use the materials, and they were ready to play their role as instructors for their colleagues. The funding for the civic education teachers’ training was also in place, including almost half of the amount needed coming from the Albanian Educational Development Project (AEDP). In the meantime, the new socialist government that was elected in 1997 had assumed full power. It was functioning as well as it could be expected under the circumstances. The higher officials of the Ministry of Education were replaced with Mr. Ethem Ruka as the minister of education and science. One of the project team leaders, Dr. Marjana Sinani, happened to know the minister personally. She made an appointment and met him to inform about the project and let him know that I was planning on writing to him.