Transforming Schools to Educate Global Citizens
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On March 5th at 12pm (EST), our first webinar, “Transforming Schools to Educate Global Citizens,” will feature Ford Foundation Professor of Practice in International Education, Fernando Reimers, and Nieves Segovia, President of SEK Education Group and University Camilo José Cela.
To watch this webinar, register at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_3Rj3ieJ9T0m9eL1S3-XPkg
| Nieves Segovia Bonet Educator and expert in learning innovation, Nieves Segovia is President of SEK Education Group, comprising University Camilo José Cela and SEK International Schools. SEK was founded in 1892. The group currently has nine schools in Spain, France, Ireland and Qatar, as well as UCJC University in Madrid, with over 15,000 students. Nieves Segovia sits on the Education Advisory Board of the Spanish Ministry of Education. She chairs the Felipe Segovia Foundation and is a member of the board of trustees of Fundación Europea Sociedad y Educación, and Fundación Transforma España. She is Vice-Chair of the Global Sports Innovation Center, the Club Excelencia en Gestión and the Edutech Cluster Spain. She is also a member of the Ashoka Support Network. She founded the Global Education Forum, a community of education innovators, and SEK Lab, the first accelerator of Ed Tech start-ups in Spain. In 2017 she launched the UCJC Integra Programme, a university refugee education scheme, which has now been joined by Sphera, a cross-cultural social entrepreneurship hub, and EachTeach, a global refugee teacher training initiative. She also sits on the EFQM – European Foundation Quality Management – Board, and has recently been elected vice- chair of the Talloires Network Steering Committee. Among other awards, Nieves Segovia has received the UNICEF Prize for Education in Values. She is a regular speaker at education forums and writes frequently for the media and specialised magazines. Nieves Segovia is a 2019 Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative Fellow. |
| Fernando M. Reimers is the Ford Foundation Professor of the Practice of International Education and Director of the Global Education Innovation Initiative and of the International Education Policy Masters Program at Harvard University. An expert in the field of Global Education, his research and teaching focus on understanding how to educate children and youth so they can thrive in the 21st century. He is a member of UNESCO’s high level commission on the Futures of Education. He has written or edited thirty-seven books, of which the most recent include: Leading Education Through COVID-19, Education and Climate Change: the Role of Universities, Implementing Deeper Learning and 21st Century Reforms: Building an education Renaissance after a Global Pandemic, Educating Students to Improve the World, Audacious Education Purposes. How governments transform the goals of education systems, Empowering teachers to build a better world. How six nations support teachers for 21st century education. At the moment he is leading a large comparative study of how 25 universities around the world have partnered with elementary and secondary schools to sustain educational opportunity during the Pandemic. With his graduate students, he has developed three curriculum resources aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, which are translated into multiple languages and widely used by schools and school systems around the world: Empowering Global Citizens, Empowering Students to Improve the World in Sixty Lessons and Learning to Collaborate for the Global Common Good. More information about his work is available here https://fernando-reimers.gse.harvard.edu/ |