nafda’s model is designed as a two-phase journey with layered interventions that deepen over time.
Schools progress based on demonstrated commitment to shared values, leadership practices, and community engagement.
PHASE 1
Foundation & Activation
Phase 1 focuses on grounding principals, teachers, and students in their role as agents of community change. Schools engage through a structured methodology tested in local contexts, centered on shared values, citizenship, and collaborative leadership.
Citizenship education (Aal Seha)
Training school-based facilitators to implement values-driven learning with students.
Community projects
Practical application of learning through locally relevant initiatives that connect schools to their surrounding communities
Leadership development
Capacity-building for principals focused on community engagement, values integration, project management, and peer-to-peer learning.
PHASE 2
Deepening Transformation & System Influence
Schools enter Phase 2 once commitment to the values and practices of Phase 1 is clearly embodied in leadership, culture, and action. This phase involves a deeper level of responsibility, complexity, and system-facing work.
Schools undertake school transformation projects aimed at improving the delivery of school programmes in areas identified with their communities, such as STEAM, agripreneurship, and wellbeing.
Principals enroll in advanced leadership and certification pathways, including higher-level school management and institutional partnerships.
Principals participate in advocacy hubs, contributing to policy dialogue and co-developing evidence-based recommendations rooted in school experience.
Students build on self-led initiatives through national student council engagement and deeper peer-to-peer learning journeys.
Learning shifts from implementation to influence, connecting school-level change to community and policy ecosystems.
Phase 2 positions schools not only as sites of transformation, but as credible contributors to education reform and public policy dialogue in Lebanon.