This paper presents Saharaline, an intervention designed to provide collective social support for teachers in low-income schools. Implemented as a WhatsApp-based helpline, Saharaline enables teachers to reach out for personalized, long-term assistance with a wide range of problems and stressors, including pedagogical, emotional, and technological challenges. Depending on the support needed, teachers' requests are routed to appropriate domain experts -- staff employed by educational non-profit organizations who understand teachers' on-the-ground realities -- who offer localized and contextualized assistance. Via a three-month exploratory deployment with 28 teachers in India, we show how Saharaline's design enabled a collective of diverse education experts to craft and deliver localized solutions that teachers could incorporate into their practice. We conclude by reflecting on the efficacy of our intervention in low-resource work contexts and provide recommendations to enhance collective social support interventions similar to Saharaline.
翻译:本文介绍了Saharaline,一项旨在为低收入学校教师提供集体社会支持的系统性干预措施。作为基于WhatsApp的热线服务,Saharaline使教师能够就教学、情感及技术等广泛问题与压力源寻求个性化、长期性的帮助。根据需求类型,教师的请求被转接至了解当地实际教育情境的非营利组织专家,由这些领域专家提供本土化、情境化的支持。通过在印度对28名教师开展为期三个月的探索性部署,我们展示了Saharaline如何通过设计使多元教育专家群体共同制定并交付可融入教师实践的本地化解决方案。最后,我们反思了该干预措施在资源匮乏工作环境中的有效性,并为优化类似Saharaline的集体社会支持机制提出建议。