First, let me apologize for not getting this posted on Sunday evening like I usually do. It was a crazy week for me as we are approaching midterm exams.
I heard back from my contact at the Uzbek Ministry of Education that she liked my project proposal. Assuming that her boss approves my project, I will be based out the Ministry of Education in the capital city, Tashkent. I will be developing a positive psychology and stress management curriculum. Then helping their school psychologists in several specially selected schools to implement this curriculum on a trial basis. If successful, they would plan to spread it to other public schools.
This project will certainly take more than 5 months in total to see it through. Now I wish that I had applied for a full year grant so that I could see this through over the course of an entire academic year. What I will be able to accomplish in just the five months is only the pilot project, and even that won’t cover enough time to really see if it is successful. The ultimate goal is to reduce teacher burnout and increase the psychological well being of students and teachers.
For now, that’s all I know. But it is exciting to see my project starting to take shape.
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