Teacher Policies: Global Best Practices for Developing the Teaching Profession
Rapid global change intensifies the challenge nations face in developing high quality teaching professions. The profiles and demands of learners as well as the learning environments are constantly evolving. In this context, successful education reforms are intrinsically linked to improvement in teacher quality. The report identifies ten key aspects of teacher policies the world over, […]
Creative Public Leadership: How School System Leaders Can Create the Conditions for System-wide Innovation
System leaders globally are aspiring toward a paradigm shift in education where a wider range of skills is achieved through new learning pathways. Such a shift requires a serious, disciplined and radical innovation at all levels of the system, and demands that governments rethink their roles in innovation eco-systems. This report aims to support system […]
Entrepreneurship Education: A Global Consideration From Practice to Policy Around the World
As entrepreneurship continues to gain momentum and visibility as an engine of global economic development, it is critical to understand and optimize the role that entrepreneurship education plays. Based on a detailed review of the literature on the entrepreneurship education ecosystems and frameworks in the United States, China, Finland, and Qatar, this report identifies the […]
Learning to Make a Difference: School as a Creative Community
Education systems are failing to meet the needs of too many learners today because it ill equips them for the challenges of an uncertain, turbulent world in which they will have to find solutions to challenges with other people. Drawing on some of the most innovative organizations in the world, including Pixar and Barcelona FC, […]
Explorations of Creativity: a Review for Educators and Policy Making
Creativity is the driving force of human evolution. In our early 21st century the demand for creative thinkers is particularly high. Interest in creativity has generated countless studies, books, and articles. Which popular beliefs about creativity are valid? In this comprehensive and accessible review, multiple strands of research are woven together revealing intriguing mechanisms and […]
WISE Survey: “School in 2030“
Are teachers obsolete? Will online content make traditional brick-and-mortar schools a thing of the past? Will there be one global education language? Should school focus on personal skills rather than academic knowledge? Will company certification be on a par with diplomas? These are some of the issues tackled by the 2014 WISE Survey: School in […]