FWE Webinar | Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic About Ways to Improve the Efficiency and Effectiveness of Education Systems: Part 1 What the Policy and Practice Responses of Secondary School Systems Around the World Have Taught Us
FWE Webinar | Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic About Ways to Improve the Efficiency and Effectiveness of Education Systems: Part 1 What the Policy and Practice Responses of Secondary School Systems Around the World Have Taught Us
Date: March 15th, 2022 Time: 9:30 am – 11:00 am EST Topic: What the Policy and Practice Responses of Secondary School Systems Around the World Have Taught Us Click Here for Webinar Registration
Abstract: The Forum for World Education is conducting three successive webinars focused on what we have learned from the COVID-19 pandemic. This first of the three webinars will focus on the UNESCO/IEA report on what happened during the first year of the pandemic– the impact on lower secondary students and teachers, and insights for policymakers regarding how to prepare for and respond to future crises. The report draws on data from education systems in Africa, Asia, Arab region, Europe, and Latin America. Our keynote speaker will focus on learnings that can be drawn from internationally comparable studies, shedding light on some key findings from IEA studies that have been conducted in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and what they can tell us about the future of education. Themes:
- The foundational role of resilience
- Sharing and committing to what is known to work
- Imperative to improve equity in opportunities and outcomes
Wilfried Hartmann
FWE Steering Committee & Academic Committee Member; Professor Emeritus of Comparative and International Education, University of Hamburg; Former Vice President of University of Hamburg
Wilfried Hartmann is Professor Emeritus of Comparative and International Education at the University of Hamburg. He served as Vice President of this University for three terms of office, during which time he was actively engaged in promoting international relations and partnerships and advancing the transfer of knowledge and technology. For many years he was a director of the European University Foundation in Luxemburg and vice-chairman of the Governing Board of the UNESCO Institute for Education, including through the period when the institute was planning today’s UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning.
Dirk Hastedt
Executive Director of the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA); Acting Chair of the IEA Technical Executive Group (TEG); Co-Editor in Chief of Large-Scale Assessments in Education
Dirk Hastedt is Executive Director of the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA)—an organization committed to developing studies tailored to national needs and requirements and support the advancement of the international dialogue on access to quality education and equity in education. At IEA, Dr. Hastedt is responsible for leading high-quality research that supports countries’ efforts to engage in national strategies to improve their educational systems, as well as acting chair of the IEA Technical Executive Group (TEG), and co-editor in chief of the IEA-ETS-Research Institute’s journal Large –Scale Assessments in Education.
Previously, Dr. Hastedt was Co-Director of the IEA Data Processing and Research Center (DPC) in Hamburg, Germany, spearheading the center’s international field of work. He is a former board member and co-editor of the IERI monograph series. He has a Ph.D. in research from the University of Hamburg.
Origene Igiraneza
FWE Young Leader; Founder & CEO at O’Genius Priority, Ltd; Former National President for Junior Chamber International (JCI) Rwanda
Origene Igiraneza, Founder & CEO at O’Genius Priority, Ltd, a software startup that develops mobile and web solutions in the areas of education, service delivery and other related IT areas. Among its products is a mobile and web-based portal to ease communication and information sharing between service providers and receivers and O’Genius Panda, a multi-tenant education platform providing interactive teaching and learning tools. Previously, he served as the National President for Junior Chamber International (JCI) Rwanda, a non-profit international NGO of active young citizens engaged and committed to positive impact.
Susan Sclafani
FWE Vice President & Steering Committee Member; Former Assistant Secretary of U.S. Department of Education
Susan Sclafani, Former U.S. Department of Education Assistant Secretary for Vocational and Adult Education and a current member of the FWE Steering Committee. Among her prior positions are vice president for program management at Pearson Education Services, director of state services at the National Center on Education and the Economy, and U.S. representative to both the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation.
Prior to entering the Federal government, Dr. Sclafani served as chief academic officer of the Houston Independent School District in Texas, one of the nation’s largest urban school districts. She earned a PhD in educational administration at the University of Texas, Austin.
Dobroslaw Bilski
Founder and Capitalize Director of "Learnhood"; Former director of the Education Department of Łódź
Dobroslaw Bilski, Founder and director of “Learnhood” an institution offering pedagogical support for parents and seniors. After 10 years of research and teaching at the University of Łódź in the field of media and distance education and didactics and two years as director of the Education Department in the local government of Łódź he became the head of a cultural and educational institution and of a school during the first two years of the pandemic. Previously, he implemented e-learning at three universities