COVID-19 has changed education systems forever. Please join us this 9 October at 12:00 BST for the “Rebuild” Summit, a global conversation on how teacher leadership can rebuild education.

Hosted by the Varkey Foundation, “Rebuild” will bring together different voices to collectively reimagine the future of education. The event will hear from some of the world’s best teachers on how they have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic.

It will convene discussion groups for hundreds of participants to think about education in a post-COVID world. And it will attempt to answer three critical questions about the future of education:

• How do we reopen schools? Identifying innovative models of teacher leadership and best practice from reopened classrooms and schools;
• How do we rebuild education? Learning from teachers around the world about what’s worked and what hasn’t worked for their students during global school closures;
• How do we reimagine learning? Reimagining education systems to put quality and equity at the heart of the learning process post COVID-19.

We look forward to seeing you at the summit! Please follow this link to register and be part of the conversation and, if you can, invite others to join the conversation.

The International Task force on Teachers for Education 2030 (TTF) in collaboration with UNESCO Bangkok will host a Regional Virtual Meeting for Asia-Pacific on 7 October at 9:00h-11:00 (Paris time GTM +2).

Following from the Regional Meetings initiated in May/June of 2020 on distance teaching and the return to school, the TTF, with member organizations and partners is organizing a new series of discussions to coincide with the WTD celebration.  These will build on the initial dialogue while also exploring the topic of teacher leadership and its key role in developing effective solutions to address challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic and building back resilient education systems.

In particular, the regional meetings will provide a forum to:

• Share examples of leadership that emerged, were implemented or are planned during different phases of the pandemic including the transition to remote teaching and the return to school;
• Identify the different systemic or policy level enabling factors that were conducive to foster effective leadership amongst school leaders and teachers at the classroom-, school- and community-levels;
• Identify challenges that need to be addressed to ensure leadership can be enhanced and teachers can take the lead on different dimensions of teaching and learning;
• Discuss different tools available to support teacher leadership, including the new TTF Toolkit for Reopening Schools, and TTF Knowledge Platform.

Some of the main questions to be covered will include:

• What government interventions were implemented or are planned to strengthen leadership capacity of school leaders and teachers to ensure the continuity of learning in the use of distance education and the return to school (if applicable) at the classroom-, school-, and community-levels?
• Given the lack of time to prepare for school closures in most countries, what examples of leadership decisions and actions emerged to ensure the continuity of learning at the micro-(classroom), meso-(school) and macro- (community) levels?
• What forms of social dialogue were conducted or are planned within a strong teacher leadership orientation to ensure the voices of teachers are included in planning?
• What enabling factors and challenges currently exist to foster a leadership mindset?

The meeting is open to TTF member countries and organizations as well as non-members. TTF focal points, representatives of Ministries of Education, and other relevant education stakeholders working on teachers’ issues in the region are invited to join the meeting.

• Read the Concept Note and consult the agenda.
• Register here.
• Watch the video.