around of principals in intervention schools estimated that the project led to collaboration between teachers in unusual and positive ways and that the project provided professional development opportunities that their teaching staff would not have otherwise had the survey instruments measure both the local contexts in which the intervention takes place and the effects of the intervention on a series of outcomes of interest for students and teachers including the change in teachers pedagogical practices attitudes and beliefs as well as the effects of those practices on their students tests scores their understanding and attitude towards creativity and critical thinking their engagement in school and their scores in standardised creativity tests while the results are tentative the initial analysis of the pilot student data shows that the intervention has promising effects on the outcomes of interest the next phase of the project should entail a validation or efficacy study before countries scale up the effective approaches