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Building on the work with SAHARA

SAHARA is where I want to deepen this work. After teaching the June 2026 class, my next priority is to build a more continuous approach: useful lessons, time to revisit a question, and materials that improve as they are used.

My initiative, taught alongside a partner

Why I teach through SAHARA

The Means of Her Making is my initiative. I choose the topics, write the lessons, and teach them. What I don’t have is a room of women who already trust the person who invited them, and SAHARA does. They know who is looking for work, who wants to start a small business, who needs the class in another language.

So I teach through SAHARA. I bring the class; they bring the people, the space, and the programs those women were already part of before I arrived. When the class ends, they’re still there.

It also keeps the material grounded in the people actually in the room, not the examples I’d have picked on my own.

The completed work

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Inside the class

Upcoming

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Next steps

A next class shaped around useful questions

I want to work with SAHARA on what should come next, including the topics, examples, and language support that would make another session useful. A continuing class sequence is something to develop with the organization.

Materials worth keeping

I’d like to turn the strongest explanations into simple pages that learners can return to. That means checking the examples, keeping the wording clear, and revising the parts that need more explanation.

Learning from what happens after teaching

In future sessions, I want to include short learning checks and optional feedback, then use what I find to change the material. Later, I’d like to explore whether a facilitator guide would help SAHARA reuse a lesson.

Materials and revisions

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What learners are telling us

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Learning results

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Used again by SAHARA

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A note from Sophia

Going back is the part I want to concentrate on now. I can put together a presentation, but I also want to know which parts deserve another hour, which examples need changing, and what would make the next class easier to use.

Sophia