e the Children works with families and communities to help children to develop foundational learning skills in the years leading up to school. Save the Children also works with communities and partners to advocate for policies and practices that recognise the value of starting early and investing in cost-effective, inclusive quality approaches to ECCD. Our goal is that all children will access quality inclusive early childhood care and demonstrate improved child development outcomes. Save the Children’s experience shows that to reach the most vulnerable children, we need to go beyond preschools. High quality caregiving must be supported both in homes and in early learning centres to build strong foundations for young girls and boys. Moreover, rural, linguistic minority and refugee children need urgent support as they are falling behind. Save the Children works to address these gaps through targeted interventions, such as early learning programmes that support children’s learning at home in emergency and post-disaster settings, among remote and nomadic communities, and in areas where preschools are not available or accessible.1d:T595,

This roadmap outlines Save the Children’s strategic direction for supporting teachers from 2025 to 2027. Teachers are at the heart of children’s learning, wellbeing and development, and are the most important in-school factor influencing outcomes, particularly in fragile and low-resourced contexts.

This roadmap is grounded in clear values around teachers that recognise teachers as essential to education systems and society, as protectors of children, and as professionals who deserve respect, voice, agency and holistic support.

Building on these values, the Teacher Theory of Change sets out how system-wide support enables teachers to become confident, motivated and effective practitioners. This leads to quality teaching and safe learning environments, so that all children can learn, thrive and reach their