Around the World in 30 Days: September 2016
C. M. Rubin’s Global Education Report Why does character education matter? And why do so many believe its role in schools is more important than ever? What does it mean to be a great Principal? How well do you know the United Nations? What do millennials think about global leadership? What would Howard Gardner do if he was Secretary of Education? What does Randi Weingarten believe will be the legacy of Race to the Top and Barack...
The Global Search for Education: What Does It Mean To Be a Great Principal?
“New sets of skills such as team work, innovation and creativity are becoming increasingly important. The leaders of this major transformation can only be the principals and the teachers themselves, but principals need to be able to show the way in this uncertain world.” — Montserrat Gomendio Launched today, the OECD’s new report, School Leadership for Learning: Insights from Teaching and Learning...
The Global Search for Education: How to Improve – From Finland
“I want everyone in a school to experience a sense of joy, and to learn.”– Mikko Salonen All schools in Finland are primarily public schools, with cities and municipalities as the proprietors. The reasons for a proprietor to seek school improvement, according to Mikko Salonen, “can include factors such as poor learning outcomes, poor feedback from parents, decreased attractiveness, leadership problems,...
The Global Search for Education: What’s the Secret to Canada’s Success?
“Effects of socio-economic status on educational outcomes can be mitigated, and this can be done on a whole-school and system-wide basis by the very people and the same schools where low performance was once the norm. It was, in Ontario, the product of attention to research, and committed collaboration by educators focused on improved instruction and precision in meeting student needs.”– Mary Jean Gallagher In 2003,...
The Global Search for Education: From Argentina
“The direct contact with actual physical phenomena was the key to developing science topics in more depth.” — Silvina Gvirtz How did the Principals of School No. 20 of Campana (Buenos Aires) significantly improve student engagement with Science in their classrooms? School No. 5 of Ensenada (Buenos Aires) had a student absentee rate of over 20%. So how did the Principal Patricia Velez solve the problem? Twenty...
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