NINOS Education & Development has just completed a Training of Trainer (ToT) for Klub Bermain Literasi (KBL) under the KREASI Program. Over five days, from 27 to 31 July 2026, District Facilitators together with Training Coordinators and Provincial Officers from 4 provinces and 8 districts gathered at Hotel Royale Kuningan, Jakarta, to be trained in facilitating KBL, a literacy catch-up program for grade 3 and 4 students who have fallen behind in reading. On the fourth day, all participants went directly to two elementary schools in Cipinang, East Jakarta, for microteaching with real children.

NINOS designed the entire technical foundation of this training, from the 27-session KBL curriculum for children used by Club Facilitators in schools, the ToT modules for District Facilitators, and peer mentoring guides, to assessment instrument guides. We want to share why this work matters, how we designed it, and what makes it work on the ground.

About the KREASI Program

KREASI, or Kolaborasi untuk Edukasi Anak Indonesia (Collaboration for Indonesian Children’s Education), is a national education program funded by the Global Partnership for Education (GPE), developed together with the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education and the Ministry of Religious Affairs, and managed by Save the Children Indonesia. The program reaches hundreds of education units across 8 districts in 4 provinces, aiming to strengthen curriculum, learning practices, school leadership, and child protection systems from early childhood through primary school. On the ground, KREASI is implemented through a consortium of 7 local implementing partners that ensure the program genuinely reaches the context of each area, rather than simply rolling out a uniform approach from the center.

Klub Bermain Literasi (Literacy Play Club) is one of KREASI’s core interventions, specifically targeting children who have fallen behind in basic literacy through the Teaching at the Right Level approach. Children are grouped based on their actual reading level, not their age or grade, and learn through activities that feel like play yet remain structured and targeted.

KBL itself is Indonesia’s adaptation of Catch Up Clubs, Save the Children International’s flagship model that emerged in response to the post-pandemic learning crisis and has since been implemented in various countries. The core principle stays the same wherever it is applied, namely accelerating literacy through structured play, though each country adapts the content and language to fit its local context. For Indonesia, that adaptation meant building curriculum, stories, and vocabulary from the ground up to be relevant to children across the 8 districts KREASI supports, rather than simply translating the global module.

Designing Training That Truly Sticks

The biggest challenge in facilitator training is not delivering content, but making sure that content can actually be applied correctly in the field, by people with widely varying levels of experience, across districts with very different conditions. For this ToT, all 18 training topics were built on a four-stage framework: participants experience first, then make meaning of it, then practice, and close with reflection on next steps. Every topic that covers a children’s activity always includes a live demonstration, because KBL is a play-based program, and district facilitators need to experience it themselves as a child before they train others to facilitate it.

The highlight came on the fourth day, when all participants facilitated a real KBL session with children at two elementary schools in Cipinang. This was not a simulation in a training room, but genuine practice with all the unpredictability that comes with it: a shy child, a child who loses interest quickly, a child who needs a different approach than the one rehearsed. Master trainers observed directly and gave constructive feedback afterward, before participants returned to the training room for peer learning sessions and to draft a 13-week action plan for their respective districts.

Why This Matters Beyond KREASI

The pattern used in this ToT, namely a curriculum that is tiered and consistent, training modules that protect content fidelity while still allowing room for technical adjustment, and field practice that is genuine rather than simulated, is a pattern that can be applied to any foundational learning program. Whether that is literacy, numeracy, or teacher capacity building more broadly.

NINOS ToT Team

NINOS is a curriculum and training development consultant focused on foundational learning, literacy, numeracy, and tiered facilitator capacity building. We believe good training is not just about delivering content, but about helping facilitators genuinely change how they work in the classroom.

Interested in Working Together?

If your organization is building or strengthening a capacity-building program in foundational learning, literacy, numeracy, or tiered facilitator training, we would welcome a conversation.

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