Building English Language Capacity from the Ground Up

Curriculum Design and Teacher Development — Anjo City Board of Education, Japan

Three elementary schools. No English curriculum. Teachers who’d never taught the subject, most of them unable to speak it. A government mandate that arrived with no infrastructure and no support. One year to fix it.

This case study covers curriculum design from scratch, differentiated teacher development for two distinct audiences, and what it takes to build sustainable in-house capacity under real pressure.