Edreda Tuwangye (PhD) enjoys working with children and education practitioners. She is a teacher educator and curriculum developer who has widely researched and advised Early Childhood Development (ECD) programs and projects which aim to increase access and improve quality of education, especially in countries recovering from war- such as Eritrea, Rwanda, Uganda and South Sudan.

She brings to 3EzSeries writing team theory and practice in developing curriculum resources for children as well as conducting teacher training programs. She tries to integrate life and social skills, gender sensitivity, inclusiveness and psychosocial well-being into curriculum, and in writing local content stories in ways that appeal to diverse learning styles.Her experience working with Government Ministries of Education and NGOs in different countries helps her to produce education resources for multicultural contexts. Edreda’s curriculum development work includes co-authoring: Uganda Early Childhood Teacher Education Curriculum and Teacher’s Guides; Uganda Primary Schools’ National Curriculum English Language Text Books and complementary non-text book materials. In addition, she has developed teacher training intervention manuals and tools to assess teaching -for use by Ministries of Education and NGO practitioners. These facilitate teacher training and enhance supervisory support services, especially in teaching the five foundational literacy skills.

Her work in early grade reading has involved designing library pockets to address book famine in many primary schools and increase literacy outcomes. In 2016, Edreda participated in developing scope and sequence for four local languages (Dinka, Nuer, Bari, and Toposa) in South Sudan. This serves as a “roadmap” to the teaching of reading and to inform designing of national curriculum materials. She has also provided oversight in Early Grade Reading Assessment (EGRA) adaptation into two South Sudan languages (Bari and Toposa) and in setting of literacy standards and benchmarks for primary school classes 1 to 4 in South Sudan.

Earlier, Edreda was a primary school teacher, a tutor in different teachers’ colleges, a national school supervisor and part time university lecturer. She is an alumni of Moray House College of Education (Scotland, UK), Kyambogo University (Uganda), Birmingham University (UK) and Edith Cowan University (Australia).