INAUGURAL FORUM 2026
24th March 2026
Rhodes House, Oxford
The Vision
Studies on the relationship between teacher effectiveness and student outcomes, particularly their later-life economic outcomes, highlights the importance of teacher subject and applied knowledge in determining the success of students in the labour market and their overall economic productivity (Hanushek, 2011; Metzler and Woessmann, 2012). But, as our studies in Oxford has shown, in many low-income economies, good teachers do not know how good they are! And teachers who have mixed competence and skills sets, rarely receive adequate and pointed feedback on where they lack, and what they might do to grow and develop. OxTrack radically changes this!
The Aim
The forum explores the purposes and functions of OxTrack and considers findings and testimonies of its use in pilot studies across three states in Nigeria, and in lowcost private schools in Nairobi, Kenya. It offers participants the opportunity to examine the OxTrack App and to debate its ‘promises’ to:
(a) motivate teachers through the provision of private and personal achievement profiles;
(b) through aggregated datasets, to support the planning and policy functions of public and private providers of education; and
(c) to monitor, publish and disseminate trends in teacher professional growth through an Observatory established in Oxford.
Agenda
9.00-9.30
9.30-11.00 Session 1
11.00-11.30
11.30-13.00 Session 2
13.00-15.00
15.00-16.00 Session 3
19.00-22.00
Arrival and registration
Introducing the purposes and functions of OxTrack
By David Johnson,
Founder of OxTrack
Coffee Break
Debating the benefits of OxTrack – findings from pilot studies in Nigeria and Kenya
Gonzalo Ignacio Nunez Chaim
World Bank
Lunch Break
Evaluating the purposes of OxTrack-Panel discussion
Peter Hinton
Rachel Hinton
Brooks Newmark
Formal Dinner
Dress Code: Black Tie