WISE AT A GLANCE

WISE GLOBAL SUMMIT P.4 WISE@ P.6 Fostering debate and action among global Shaping local education conversations education leaders

WISE PRIZE FOR EDUCATION P.8 WISE AWARDS P.10 Honoring and celebrating education pioneers Promoting innovative education projects from around the world

WISE ACCELERATOR P. 12 WISE RESEARCH SERIES P.14 Supporting the development of innovative Building education through evidence-based projects knowledge WISE AT A GLANCE

THE AGILE LEADERS P.16 EMPOWERING LEADERS P.17 OF LEARNING INNOVATION OF LEARNING (ELL) NETWORK (ALL-IN) Capacity building of school leaders to improve students’ learning Co-designing sustainable school leadership development programs

WISE EMERGING LEADERS P. 18 WISE LEARNERS’ VOICE P. 19 Fostering a new kind of education leadership Enabling youth to join the global education debate

ABOUT FOUNDATION P. 20 Unlocking human potential WISE GLOBAL SUMMIT Fostering debate and action among global education leaders

Since 2009 WISE has brought together decision makers, thought leaders and practitioners from around the world at the Summit in Qatar, to explore ground-breaking innovations and take concrete steps toward improving education.

Attendees have the opportunity to network, collaborate, share effective practices and discover new ideas through interactive sessions, keynote speeches and debates.

A major feature of the Summit is the WISE Majlis, based on the traditional ‘majlis’ a gathering space for meeting, sitting talking, and eating. It is where informal interactions happen alongside participatory chats, learning labs, and kiosks from the WISE community.

The 2019 Summit UPPL place on November 19-21, 2019 in under the theme of UnLearn, ReLearn: What it means to be Human

— Over — 200 2,000 speakers international and contributors attendees from over — — More than — 150 150 sessions countries — —

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66 WISE@ Shaping local education conversations

The WISE@ are a series of local and regional education forums that take place between the WISE biennial global summit. The forums allow for:

• A dedicated event, at the heart of different cities Every city has brought its own unique character around the world. to the WISE formula.

• A focus on regional education challenges and the Since 2016 WISE@ has been to: Tunis, Beijing, exchange of knowledge with local and regional Madrid, Accra, New York City, and most recently partners. Paris.

• An inspiring mix of global and local experiences blended to give participants relevant and useful knowledge of best educational practices and ideas for collaboration and action.

— 6 WISE@Tunis MAY 26th 2016

Dialogue for Education and Peace

WISE@Beijing NOV 5th 2016

Innovating for Equity and Empowerment

WISE@Madrid FEB 28th 2017

Imagining the Future of Education

WISE@Accra MAY 11th 2018

Unlocking the World’s Potential: Leading and Innovating for Quality Education in Africa

WISE@NY SEP 22nd 2018

Learning Revolutions: Creating Educational Environments for Empowerment and Inclusion

WISE@Paris FEB 20th - 21st 2019

Education Futures: Fostering Learning Societies

— 7 WISE PRIZE FOR EDUCATION Honoring education pioneers

It is our aim that this Prize should raise global The 2019 WISE Prize for Education laureate was awareness of the crucial role of education announced on November 20, 2019 at the 2019 in all societies, and create a platform for WISE Summit. innovative and practical solutions that might help alleviate some of the challenges which 2019 education faces around the world. Mr Larry Rosenstock, The United States of America Her Highness Sheikha Larry Rosenstock is the CEO and Chairperson, Qatar Foundation founding principal of High Tech High. Mr Rosenstock has dedicated his life to rethinking K-12 learning and tackling inequality Established in 2011 by Her Highness Sheikha Moza through education. Pioneering the concept of bint Nasser, Chairperson of Qatar Foundation, the project-based education, he founded High Tech WISE Prize for Education is the first distinction of its High in 2000. HTH, which started as a small public kind to recognize an individual or a team of up to six charter school has now evolved into an integrated people for an outstanding, world-class contribution network of sixteen charter schools, serving 5,780 to education. students across four campuses. The Laureate receives a gold medal and a Today, HTH is shaping the present and future $500,000 (USD) cash fund dedicated to grow of education by serving as a proof point for the their initiatives. concepts of project-based education, re-imagining the role of teachers and teaching 21st century skills. www.hightechhigh.org/

2019 WISE PRIZE FOR EDUCATION JURY

HE Sheikha Hanadi H.E. Serigne Dr Madhav Chavan Ms Vicky Colbert Dr Jörg Dräger Mr. Alan Chow bint Nasser bin Mbaye Thiam President of Founder and Member of the Executive Director, Khaled Al Thani Minister of National Pratham Education Director, Escuela Executive Board, D.H. Chen Founder and Education, Senegal Foundation, India Nueva Foundation, Bertelsmann Foundation, China Chairperson, Amwal, Colombia Foundation, Qatar Germany

— 8 The WISE Prize Laureates are inspiring role models for all those concerned with building the future of education as the foundation for a more secure, prosperous and sustainable world.

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8 WISE AWARDS Promoting innovative education projects around the world

Each year the WISE Awards identify and promote six outstanding innovative projects representing some of the most creative and effective approaches to key global education challenges.

WISE recognizes these educational models for their creative approach, their positive contribution, and their potential for scalability and adaptability. The WISE Awardees gain global visibility through the Summit and WISE@ conferences, in WISE publications, and through the online platform, along with a prize of US $20,000 (USD).

These projects represent a growing resource of expertise and sound educational practice that is bringing positive change to communities and inspiring others around the globe.

— Launched in 2009 — — 72 — winning projects Over —

4,200 applications or nominations from over 150 countries since 2009 —

— 10 The 2020 WISE Awards winners:

Barefoot College Solar Electrification with Enriched Education Origin: India / Reach: Global a holistic program for women and girls that combines an adaptable curriculum called “ENRICHE”, based on 21st century skills, entrepreneurship and solar electrification. This approach creates a ripple effect that can be scaled across the whole community.

Education for Sharing (E4S) Origin: Mexico / Reach: Global a model that uses a “play-reflect-act” framework to encourage educators to teach dynamically and promote children’s participation. By connecting a school’s syllabus to the SDGs, the project increases dialogue and provides teachers with the skills and tools to structure their classes.

Legal Education, Training, and Practice by Justice Defenders Origin: United Kingdom / Reach: Kenya and Uganda a unique program that educates inmates to become auxiliary paralegals with a three-week intensive training. Program graduates also conduct legal awareness sessions, educating their peers about human rights and options for legal recourse.

Parenting for the Future (PTF) by the Hupan Modou Foundation Origin & Reach: China a parent-engagement program that supports caregivers in developing skills and behaviors to foster children’s attachment, healthy development, and strengthens families’ role in children’s care, protection and education.

Stawisha Instructional Leadership Institute by Dignitas Origin: Kenya / Reach: Kenya & Sudan

a program that empowers educators in marginalized communities to transform students’ opportunities through a focus on instructional leadership, classroom culture, and learner engagement.

Think Equal Origin: United Kingdom / Reach: Global a program mediating value- based, experiential, social and emotional learning for children aged 3-6 that’s designed to equip them with 26 critical competencies, values, and skills, as the foundation for positive outcomes in life.

— 11 THE WISE ACCELERATOR Supporting the development of innovative projects

Launched in 2014, the WISE Accelerator Testimonies program is designed to support the growth of young, innovative projects developing solutions in education technology with high potential for scalability and positive impact The WISE Accelerator is not only about in the field of education. accelerating your business; it’s about accelerating your mind. You will never think in Selected projects benefit from a year-long the same way after a few sessions with your mentorship program tailored to address mentor. The WISE mentorship process is a their priority needs. In addition, the WISE tailor-made solution. Accelerator serves as an intermediary to connect these projects with an international Nayla Fahed Zreik, Co-founder, Lebanese network that creates opportunities to share Alternative Learning knowledge and find support among potential partners, donors and investors.

Since its inauguration, the program has been As a result of WISE Accelerator, we were dedicated to supporting education projects successful in raising our seed funding round, from various regions and sectors that are and were able to identify and appoint a key using or designing technology to address business advisor. We also had the opportunity education challenges. to explore crucial international markets and receive advice of how to refine our At the WISE Summit selected projects are international scale-up strategy. invited to take part in selected workshops and are offered unique networking opportunities. Chibeza Agley, Co-founder and CEO, CamBioScience

— 12 The 2020-2021 WISE Accelerator Cohort

Fire Tech (United Kingdom)

leading tech camps and courses that provide students with offline classes focusing on the acquisition of key technology-related and 21st century skills: coding, project-based learning, problem solving, computational thinking... Through its program, Fire Tech prepares students with career-relevant ‘future-proof’ skills.

Guider (United Kingdom)

a personal-development platform for employees. Through its AI-powered mentoring software, Guider helps employees create mentoring relationships, tracks their progress and streamlines both communication and feedback between participants. At the same time, the platform allows companies to leverage talents through mentorship.

TOMi (Colombia)

a device and technology that aims to simplify the day-to-day tasks of teachers, providing them with more time to create inspiring lessons and resources. TOMi can be used to present engaging content in any classroom context, both online and offline and can be connected to a TV or smartboard, or simply projected onto a blank surface.

Unrulr (United States of America)

a community-based digital platform that students and teachers can use to document their accomplishments, share their learning stories, offer reflections on topics, tips and get feedback from their own community on their work. By doing so, Unrulr reimagines the way teachers and students can assess learning, develop 21st century skills and collaborate with each other.

— 13 WISE RESEARCH SERIES Building education through evidence-based knowledge

WISE is committed to creating and facilitating access to knowledge and contributing to the global conversation on a range of education challenges.

THE WISE RESEARCH REPORTS

Launched in 2014, the WISE Research Reports present timely and comprehensive analysis, produced in collaboration with recognized experts, researchers and thought leaders. The publications include examples of improved practice from around the world, as well as recommendations for policymakers, educators, and change-makers. Complete information on the authors of the WISE Reports will be available on our website: wise-qatar.org

— 14 8 WISE Research Reports were released in 2019

— — Global Sport Development Systems Local Learning Ecosystems: and Athletes’ Access to Education Emerging Models From Ohio University From the Innovation Unit

— — Global Competition for Talent: A Educational Leadership: A Multilevel Comparative Analysis of National Distributed Perspective Strategies for Attracting International Students From From the Institute of International Education (IIE)

— — Evaluating the Impact of Global Promoting Youth Well-being Through Citizenship Education on Young People’s Health and Education: Insights and Attitudes Towards Equality, Diversity and Opportunities Tolerance From the RAND Corporation From Durham University

— — Pursuit of Institutional Excellence Language Policy in Globalized Contexts in Higher Education From Carnegie Mellon University-Qatar From the University of Pennsylvania

— 15 THE AGILE LEADERS OF LEARNING INNOVATION NETWORK (ALL-IN) Co-designing sustainable school leadership development programs

ALL-IN is an initiative that draws together policymakers, leadership development providers, academics and education experts to share innovative approaches and accelerate the design of new, high-quality scalable models.

The network has gathered 89 researchers, practitioners, policy makers and program providers from over 30 countries in three working sessions during WISE@ events in Accra, New York and Paris. With these workshops, ALL-IN aims to:

1. Curate discussions with school leadership 4. Research global best practices and share key development providers by creating a community building blocks of school leadership development; of practice; 5. Positively impact student achievement and 2. Discuss impact evaluation and scale up well-being outcomes through innovative school leadership programs; leadership approaches.

3. Serve as a springboard for research that captures and designs coherent school leadership policies and high impact practices in the network and beyond;

— 16 EMPOWERING LEADERS OF LEARNING (ELL) Capacity building of school leaders to improve students’ learning

Empowering Leaders of Learning (ELL) is a In 2019, the ELL program was divided into two local school initiative by WISE that builds the cohorts – one cohort in partnership with Qatar capacity of K-12 school leaders nation-wide Foundation’s (QF) Education Development to lead sustainable improvement processes in Institute (EDI) for QF schools, and one cohort in their schools. Designed and implemented in partnership with Qatar’s Ministry of Education partnership with Dr. Simon Breakspear, Research and Higher Education (MOEHE) for Qatar’s Fellow at the University of New South Wales, government schools. WISE has worked in close the program seeks to equip Qatar’s school partnership with each stakeholder institution, leaders with the tools and capabilities to form EDI and MOEHE, to design ELL programs that Leadership Communities of Practice to continually meet the needs of their educators and address develop, inform and disseminate best practices the challenges in their schools. that reach all educators to support system-wide improvement and impact. ELL is part of WISE’s commitment to support QF schools and MOEHE in achieving their goals for Through ELL, WISE aims to: an efficient and improved system. It is also part of WISE’s commitment to build the capacity of • Provide quality, blended professional learning educators to lead sustainable change processes and opportunities for Qatari school leaders to in schools to improve student outcomes globally. share expertise and learn together; • Deepen collective capacity for system-wide school improvement in Qatar; • Create opportunities for purposeful school leader collaboration in productive cycles of design, action, and feedback; and • Create Leadership Communities of Practice where school leaders can continue to learn, create impact and disseminate best practices.

— 17 WISE EMERGING LEADERS Fostering a new kind of education leadership

Launched in 2019, this nine month-long fellowship The second cohort consists of 19 outstanding program is built on the conviction that fellows, from 17 countries, who have strongly empowering and mentoring young talent in demonstrated their commitment to the field of education is integral to supporting and elevating education and are actively engaged in innovation in education. delivering or designing education initiatives within their organization or networks. Each year, WISE will collaborate with high impact organizations within the WISE community The 2020 WISE Emerging Leaders: to nominate young education practitioners from their organizations or networks to participate Gerson Abesamis - Philippines in the fellowship. Akua Ampah - Ghana Juan David Aristizabal - Colombia Selected fellows aged 25-33 will participate in a Furwa Baig - series of collaborative and interactive modules on Christina Bwana - Tanzania topics ranging from ethical leadership to social Shalini Dwivedi - India innovation delivered by WISE, Recipes for Charlène Friang - France Wellbeing and The Weaving Lab to increase the Faye Hobson - Austria impact of their work and collaborate on pressing Liz Jackson - Australia challenges. Through the fellowship, WISE aims to Surya Karki - Nepal support and elevate the work of promising Jigyasa Labroo - India initiatives in education by developing young Deborah Lourenço - Brazil talent within such organizations. Annita Mashiri - Zimbabwe In addition to completing a residential training Enayat Nasir - Afghanistan and online modules, fellows will contribute to Neha Raheel - Pakistan their organizations by applying their new skills on Marco Roca - Argentina a project identified by their organization and Yussuf A. Sané - Guinea-Bissau WISE. Sophia Su - China Teresa Wolverton - United States of America

— 18 WISE LEARNERS’ VOICE Enabling youth to join the global education debate

— Since 2010 the WISE Learners’ Voice program Network of over has welcomed the views and creative energies of young people in rethinking education and preparing them to take leading roles in their fields 200 and in the world of education. From 2021 on, the learners — program will focus on middle school students — based in Qatar, helping them to improve their self-expression skills so they can voice their opinions and engage in civic participation. 60 countries — The program focuses on building education — knowledge as well as communication, entrepreneurship, and leadership skills. The 8 selected group participates in the global biennial summit and residential sessions with expert cohorts faculty. Through interactive workshops, experiential sessions and creative exercises, 25 Learners will gain the skills and mindsets required projects developed to forge their place in designing the future of education. in the field of education The current Learners’ Voice community comprises — more than 200 Learners from over 60 countries and diverse backgrounds and disciplines. Together they represent a unique perspective within the WISE community.

— 19 ABOUT QATAR FOUNDATION Unlocking Human Potential

Qatar Foundation - Investing in Qatar’s Establishing a cycle of education and future, developing human capital research for the benefit of the community

Qatar has long recognized the need to The transformation of Qatar starts with individual diversify its economy in preparation for a post- journeys of achievement, and the catalyst for hydrocarbon world, and that the only guarantee these is quality education. Qatar Foundation of prosperity for any nation is the ability of its has created a unique, integrated learning people to develop, adapt, and innovate. environment that spans a comprehensive educational spectrum. From the age of six Qatar Foundation was established in 1995 by months, QF students are immersed in a culture His Highness Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, of learning that nurtures their creativity and the Father Emir, and Her Highness Sheikha Moza innovation, and cultivates a love of science and bint Nasser. They shared the visionary idea that research. Through primary and senior schools as the future of Qatar lies in unlocking the most well as leading universities, QF prepares students precious resource of all: human potential. to become future leaders.

Today, Qatar Foundation supports Qatar’s Through partnerships with universities from implementation of Qatar National Vision 2030 and around the world, QF has created a dynamic its unique national journey from a carbon-based and innovative model comprised of exceptional economy to a knowledge economy. Initiatives in universities providing students with a world- education, science and research, and community class higher learning experience. QF has also development reflect QF’s commitment to established Hamad Bin Khalifa University, which providing opportunities for all and unlocking has focused its research on national priorities and people’s human potential, ensuring they are initiated degree programs that serve the needs equipped with the knowledge and skills to support of Qatar.Through these and many other initiatives, the development of Qatar and make their mark students are guided towards fulfilling their on the world. aspirations, contributing to their community and competing at a global level.

— 20 Education is the first step to empowering people and shaping Qatar’s future. Qatar Foundation’s emphasis on science and research means students receive the training and expertise that will allow them to make significant contributions in fields of priority for Qatar.

From energy and the environment to computing and biomedical research, Qatar Foundation is making exciting breakthroughs in areas that promise to transform Qatar, the Gulf region, and the wider world.

Community Development

Community development is at the core of everything Qatar Foundation does. With initiatives in art, cultural heritage, health and wellbeing, literary development, sustainability, and promoting dialogue and critical thinking, Qatar Foundation fosters the growth of a strong, vibrant and caring society defined by active citizenship, in which Qatar’s cultural heritage is preserved and the resilience of the nation strengthened.

www.qf.org.qa

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