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Three months into the global COVID-19 pandemic, physical lockdowns have disrupted education for 75% of the world’s students and highlighted the interconnectedness of education systems with students’ health, well-being and security. As the academic year comes to a close in much of the world, we must adapt to the “new normal” as we prepare for the new school year.
In partnership with WISE, the second part of the Education Disrupted, Education Reimagined series explored the systemic responses to the COVID-19 crisis and unpacked what has worked, what has not worked, and what can be reimagined not only for the coming academic year, but for the future of education and learning.
Three months into the COVID-19 pandemic, global physical lockdown has made disruption an ongoing reality for three-quarters of the world’s education systems, schools, and students. Simultaneous shocks to financial and health systems have further heightened uncertainty and vulnerability, and have highlighted the interconnectedness of education systems with the health, well-being, and economic security of our communities and learners. As the academic year comes to a close in many parts of the world, parents, educators, and policymakers are grappling to anticipate and adapt to the “new normal” in education as they prepare their systems and classrooms to usher in a new school year in September.
Armed with a semester’s worth of experience, many educators and decision makers are asking themselves which structures and practices should be preserved in the coming year and which should be adjusted or abandoned. They also look to better understand the reasons behind the success of some schools and systems compared to the experiences of others. The deep societal inequalities exposed by the COVID-19 crisis have prompted leaders to not only consider how schools can be brought back better than before, but to also rethink the core values at the center of our education systems.
The second part of the WISE Education Disrupted, Education Reimagined series explored the systemic responses to the COVID-19 crisis and unpack what has worked, what has not worked, and what can be reimagined not only for the coming academic year, but for the future of education and learning. In particular, day one of the three-day event – June 23 – which was hosted in partnership with Salzburg Global Seminar, built off of the foundations set in the first part of the series and look at the data and indicators coming out of schools and systems to consider how we best measure the effectiveness of different responses to the crisis.
Day one will build off of the foundations set in the first part of the series and look at the data and indicators coming out of schools and systems to consider how we best measure the effectiveness of different responses to the crisis.
Conference Session 1: 09:00 - 12:15 Doha (GMT+3)
10:30-11:00: Break
11:00- 11:45: Panel Discussion: How do we best measure school and system responses to the crisis? What can we learn from this to build better, more resilient systems for the future?
This panel will explore how we can best measure school and system responses to the COVID-19 crisis and what can we learn from this to build better, more resilient school systems for the future. This panel will also discuss how their respective institutions have responded to the crisis and what lessons have been learned for moving forward.
Speakers: Olli Pekkah Heinonen, Director General, Finnish National Agency for Education
Hassan Al-Derham, President, Qatar University
Staneala Beckley, Chair, Sierra Leone Teaching Service Commission
Moderator: Clare Shine, Vice President and Chief Program Officer, Salzburg Global Seminar
11:45-12:25: Institutional & Individual Responses: Recommendations for Building Back Better and Future Preparedness
As countries across the world slowly begin to emerge out of lockdown, what needs to change within education when the ‘new normal’ emerges after the COVID-19 pandemic? Panelists will share perspectives on how educational spaces can accommodate and support transformed education systems in the future.
Speakers: Asif Saleh, Executive Director, BRAC Bangladesh
Grace Maina, Senior Deputy Director, Curriculum and Research Services, Kenya Institute for Curriculum Development
Nayef Al ibrahim, CEO, Ibtechar
Moderator: Ahmed Baghdady, Research Manager, WISE
12:25-12:45: Closing
Asmaa Al-Fadala, Director, Research and Content Development, WISE, Qatar
Conference Session 2: 18:00 - 21:15 Doha (GMT+3)
18:00-18:05: Welcome
Asmaa Al-Fadala, Director of Research & Content Development, WISE
Dominic Regester, Program Director, Salzburg Global Seminar
18:05-18:35: Keynote Speaker + Q&A, Build Back Better: Setting the Scene
Gordon Brown, UN Special Envoy for Global Education, Former Prime Minister -UK, Commission Chair, The Education Commission
Discussant: Dominic Regester, Program Director, Salzburg Global Seminar
18:35-18:50: Highlights from the 2020 GEM Report
In this special address, Manos Antoninis, Director of GEM Report, UNESCO, will share highlights from the 2020 GEM Report.
18:50-19:35: Short talks on Policy & Practice: The Impact of COVID-19 on Education Systems Now and in the Future
In this session, speakers will share their insights on the impact of COVID-19, how schools responded to the crisis and what policies will need to be introduced for the future.
Speakers: Emiliana Vegas, Senior fellow and Co-director at Center for Universal Education, Brookings Institution
Liesbet Steer, Director, The Education Commission
Koji Miyamoto, Senior Economist for Education Global Practice, World Bank Group
Moderator: Faye Hobson, Program Manager, Salzburg Global Seminar
20:00- 20:45: Panel Discussion: How do we best measure school and system responses to the crisis? What can we learn from this to build better, more resilient systems for the future?
This panel will explore how we can best measure school and system responses to the COVID-19 crisis and what can we learn from this to build better, more resilient school systems for the future. This panel will also discuss how their respective institutions have responded to the crisis and what lessons have been learned for moving forward.
Speakers: Darleen Opfer, Vice President and Director RAND Education and Labor, RAND Corporation
Manos Antoninis, Director of GEM Report, UNESCO
Fernando Reimers, Ford Foundation Professor of the Practice in International Education and Director of the Global Education Innovation Initiative and of The International Education Policy Program, Harvard University
Moderator: Dominic Regester, Program Director, Salzburg Global Seminar
20:45- 21:25: Institutional & Individual Responses: Recommendations for Building Back Better and Future Preparedness
As countries across the world slowly begin to emerge out of lockdown, what needs to change within education when the ‘new normal’ emerges after the COVID-19 pandemic? Panelists will share perspectives on how educational spaces can accommodate and support transformed education systems in the future.
Speakers: Shelby Cosner, Professor and Director of the Center for Urban Educational Leadership, University of Illinois
Andrea Escobar Vila, Executive Director, Empresarios Por La Educación
Saran Stewart, Senior Lecturer of Comparative Higher Education and Deputy Dean for Quality Assurance and Undergraduate Matters in the Faculty of Humanities and Education, University of West Indies, Jamaica
Moderator: Julia Kirby, Manager of Research & Content Dissemination, WISE
21:25-21:45: Closing
Asmaa Al-Fadala, Director of Research & Content Development, WISE
Day two will look at how we can best future-proof educational ecosystems and leverage existing innovation to bolster resilience.
Conference Session 1: 09:00 - 12:15 Doha (GMT+3)
09:00-9:10: Welcome
09:10-09:30: Keynote Speaker: Setting the Scene for the day
09:30-10:25: Panel: Future-proofing learning ecosystems
This session will examine how learning ecosystems can create new avenues for multi-level stakeholder participation in both the online and material space, without creating silos of information and resources.
Moderator: Danilo Padilla, Education Specialist, UNESCO
Speakers: Rosie Clayton, Co-Founder, Weaving Lab
Akshay Chaturvedi, Founder & CEO, Leverage Edu
Fatma Al-Remaihi, CEO, Doha Film Institute (DFI)
10:25-10:40: Break
10:40- 11:10: Hear My story: Should we be building resilience within institutions that have been so hard to reform?This series of presentations from key speakers will consider how our systems might be reformed so that they can better reflect our modern world context and become more resilient to future challenges.
Moderator: Victoria Basma, Policy and Partnerships Officer, WISE
Speakers: Sean Holroyd, Associate Professor of Teaching in Physiology and Biophysics at Weill Cornell Medicine Qatar
Jaya Ramchandani, Faculty member, UWC ISAK Japan
Yuan Gu, Founder, Aha School of Social Innovation
11:10-12:10: Specialist Dialogue: Accelerating progress by leveraging innovation
This session will leverage on the expertise of practitioners and examine how to harness innovation to decrease the equity gap and reorient the system so that every learner can thrive in an ever-changing world.
Moderator: Maryanna Abdo, Managing Director, Center for Evidence and Implementation
Speakers: Meagan Fallone, CEO, Barefoot College International
Surya Karki, Country Director Nepal, United World Schools (UWS)
Bo Stjerne Thomsen, Chair of Learning through Play. Lego Foundation
Lorenzo Benussi, Chief Innovation Officer, Fondazione per la Scuola della Compagnia di San Paolo
12:10-12:15: Closing: Summary of Leveraging Innovation to Reimagine Resilience
Conference Session 2: 18:00 - 21:15 Doha (GMT+3)
18:00-18:10: Welcome
18:10-18:30: Keynote Speaker: Setting the Scene for the day
18:30-19:25: Panel: Future-proofing learning ecosystems
This session will examine how learning ecosystems can create new avenues for multi-level stakeholder participation in both the online and material space, without creating silos of information and resources.
Speakers: Catalina Lopez, COO, Ruta N
Ed Fidoe, Chief Executive, Interdisciplinary School
Ana Raad, Founder and Director, EcoSTEAM
19:25-19:40: Break
19:40- 20:10: Hear My story: Should we be building resilience within institutions that have been so hard to reform?
This series of presentations from key speakers will consider how our systems might be reformed so that they can better reflect our modern world context and become more resilient to future challenges.
Moderator: Victoria Basma, Policy and Partnerships Officer, WISE
Speakers: Amira Yahayoui, CEO & Founder, mos.com
Chelsea Waite, Research Fellow, Clayton Christensen Institute
Daniel Dotse, CEO & Co-Founder, Lead for Ghana
20:10- 21:10: Specialist Dialogue: Accelerating progress by leveraging innovation
This session will leverage on the expertise of practitioners and examine how to harness innovation to decrease the equity gap and reorient the system so that every learner can thrive in an ever-changing world.
Moderator: Andrew Jack, Global Education, Financial Times
Speakers: Rebecca Winthrop, Senior Fellow, Brookings
Dolores Dickson, Executive Director, Camfed Africa
Mona Mourshed, CEO, Generation You Employed
Larry Rosenstock, Founder, High Tech High
21:10-21:15: Closing: Summary of Leveraging
Day three will examine how the current crisis has accelerated cross-sector collaborations and in turn, underline the need to bridge deep digital divides.
Conference Session 1: 09:00 - 12:15 Doha (GMT+3)
09:00-9:10: Welcome
09:10-09:30: Keynote Speaker: Setting the Scene for the day
09:30-10:25: Panel: What does the Edtech landscape look like post-C19?
10:25-10:40: Break
10:40- 11:10: Hear my Story: How do we bridge the digital and economic divide ?
Speakers in this session will share their experiences in bridging the digital and economic divide, what the outcomes have been and how we can use these lessons to propel the education sector into the next stage of development.
Moderator: Aurelio Amaral, Policy Development and Partnerships Officer, WISE
Speakers: Janhvi Kanoria, Director of Innovation, Education Above All
Stephane Coillet-Matillon, CEO, KIWIX
11:10-12:10: Specialist Dialogue: Cross-sectional coalition building
Experts from the private and public sector will explore how we can build sustainable cross-sector coalitions and leverage the expertise of each sector so that our education systems become more agile and inclusive.
Moderator: Sophie Bailey. Founder, EdTech Podcast
Speakers: Dean Ahmed Dallal, GUQ-SFS
Ruben Vardanyan, Co-Founder, Aurora Humanitarian Initiative
Rebecca Grynspan, Secretary General, SEGIB
Rukmini Banerji, CEO, Pratham
12:10-12:15: Closing: Summary of Redefining Equity through Technology
Conference Session 2: 18:00 - 21:15 Doha (GMT+3)
18:00-18:10: Welcome
18:10-18:30: Keynote Speaker: Setting the Scene for the day
Christos Stylianides, European Commissioner For Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management, European Commission
18:30-19:25: Panel: What does the Edtech landscape look like post-C19?
19:25-19:40: Break
19:40- 20:10: Hear my Story: How do we bridge the digital and economic divide ?
Speakers in this session will share their experiences in bridging the digital and economic divide, what the outcomes have been and how we can use these lessons to propel the education sector into the next stage of development.
Moderator: Thana El-Sallabi, Program Officer, WISE
Speakers: Craig D’Souza, Head of Global Security, Intelligence & Investigations (GSII), Executive Protection (GSEP), Facebook
Jean Pierre Mutambarungu, Founding Dean, Faculty of Management, Kepler
Sam Butters, CEO, Education Fair Alliance
20:10- 21:10: Specialist Dialogue: Cross-sectional coalition building
Experts from the private and public sector will explore how we can build sustainable cross-sector coalitions and leverage the expertise of each sector so that our education systems become more agile and inclusive.
Moderator: Matthew Swift, CEO & Co-Founder, Concordia
Speakers: Thor Ellegaard, CEO, Edtech Denmark
Vicky Colbert, Founder & Director, Fundacion Escuela Nueva
Sherrie Westin, President of Social Impact and Philanthropy, Sesame Workshop
21:10-21:15: Closing: Summary of Redefining Equity through Technology