From the Ground Up (FGU) is a project of Research in Practice in Adult Literacy (BC), in partnership with Literacy BC, that helps practitioners develop tools to evaluate their community-based programs and facilitate the reporting process. This document is one in a series that describes monitoring tools that have been developed by different BC communities.

In the northwest region of BC, a region faced with severe socioeconomic challenges, literacy programs are delivered by stand-alone, non-governmental organizations. Because literacy practitioners in this remote and rural region often feel overwhelmed, frustrated and discouraged, they decide to design a Reflective Practice Monitoring tool. This tool is meant to help literacy practitioners find a “breathing space” and step back from the daily business to sort through the complexities they are immersed in.