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How might we use education networks to better support schools and teachers across contexts?

Tue, February 21, 4:45 to 6:15pm EST (4:45 to 6:15pm EST), Grand Hyatt Washington, Floor: Independence Level (5B), Farragut Square

Group Submission Type: Refereed Roundtable Session

Proposal

This roundtable will be an interactive forum for practical exchanges on how education networks - individuals and organizations who bring together groups of schools and educators - can best support quality improvements in education systems around the world.

School systems are facing unprecedented challenges and remain highly fragmented, with often limited opportunities to tap into the knowledge and resources that could strengthen everyday teaching practices, enable better preparedness for ongoing disruptions such as COVID-19, and ultimately contribute to better student outcomes. But how can we foster a more connected global school ecosystem - one that truly centers students and educators? Drawing from the experiences of four education networks seeking to do just that, this roundtable will discuss concrete ways in which networks are being used to elevate the voices of teachers and school leaders; foster peer learning across different schools; and identify, test, and adapt promising classroom innovations.

Roundtable contributors would include network facilitators, program managers, and applied researchers who are implementing diverse strategies within global education networks such as Teach for All, Education International, Schools2030, and HundrED to support teachers and schools across contexts. Presenters will highlight actionable insights and remaining questions from the specific approaches they are using within their networks. For example, the Teach for All network is working to advance a collective leadership model, and recently launched a new framework to support learning across classrooms and communities to help foster students as leaders of a better future. Schools2030 is co-designing open-source tools to equip teachers with the skills and knowledge they need to nurture better learning environments. And Education International and HundrED are using their unique platforms to amplify both the perspectives of teachers and those of education innovators.

This roundtable will also invite participants to share their own experiences supporting education networks. The discussion would aim to surface collective principles of successful network engagement with teachers and schools to date (e.g., importance of building trust), challenges that education networks may need to grapple with in the future (e.g., contextualizing approaches, measuring the impact of network effectiveness), as well as potential solutions. As part of this conversation, the Jacobs Foundation and Results for Development will highlight lessons learned and future plans for their facilitation of a new “network of networks” – the School Action Learning Exchange (SALEX) – which seeks to cultivate collaboration and learning across existing education networks, including but not limited to the ones highlighted above.

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