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EDUCATION-2018/05/21 1 THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION CITIZENS OF THE FUTURE: INNOVATIONS TO LEAPFROG GLOBAL EDUCATION Washington, D.C. Monday, May 21, 2018 Session 1: Accelerating Progress in Education to Develop Citizens of the Future: Keynote: VALERIE SMITH President, Swarthmore College Presentation: REBECCA WINTHROP Director and Senior Fellow, Center for Universal Education The Brookings Institution Moderator: EMILIANA VEGAS Chief of the Education Division Inter-American Development Bank Session 2: Unburdening Teachers: Harnessing the Power of Community Expertise and Technology: GREP TOPPO, Moderator Senior Editor, Inside Higher Ed DAVID CALLE Founder, Unicoos Top 10 Finalist, 2017 Teacher Prize MANOLO DIAZ Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, Yogome ALISON NAFTALIN Founder, Lively Minds HADI PARTOVI Chief Executive Officer, Code.org ANDERSON COURT REPORTING 706 Duke Street, Suite 100 Alexandria, VA 22314 Phone (703) 519-7180 Fax (703) 519-7190 EDUCATION-2018/05/21 2 Networking Lunch and Deep-Dives on EdTech Deep-Dive 1: Can education technology improve individualized learning for all and help scale inclusive education? ANTHONY BLOOME Senior Education Technology Specialist, USAID RACHEL HINTON Head of Education Research Department for International Development (DFID) MANDEEP SAMRA Lead, Ed-Tech and Innovation Hub Department for International Development (DFID) VICTORIA TINIO Executive Director Foundation for Information Technology Education and Development (FIT-ED) Deep-Dive 2: The Education Workforce Initiative: Harnessing new approaches for education workforce design and implementation: JU-HO LEE Professor, KDI School of Public Policy and Management Former Minister of Education, South Korea Chief, Education Workforce Initiative LIESBET STEER Director, Education Commission AMY BELLINGER Lead, Education Workforce Initiative Deep-Dive 3: National EdTech: Uruguay’s experience using tech to inform pedagogy: MIGUEL BRECHNER President, Plan Ceibal Deep-Dive 4: Breaking through: Introducing computer science and coding in school curriculum: HADI PARTOVI Chief Executive Officer, Code.org Session 3: Innovations in Teacher Training: A Key Element in Developing the Education Workforce: JENNY ANDERSON, Moderator Reporter, Quartz JU-HO LEE Professor, KDI School of Public Policy and Management ANDERSON COURT REPORTING 706 Duke Street, Suite 100 Alexandria, VA 22314 Phone (703) 519-7180 Fax (703) 519-7190 EDUCATION-2018/05/21 3 Former Minister of Education, South Korea Chief, Education Workforce Initiative VICKI PHILLIPS Chief Executive Officer in Residence, Educurious MARY CATHRYN RICKER Executive Vice President, American Federation of Teachers VISHAL TAREJA Co-Founder, Dream a Dream Session 4: Education Innovations in Practice: Falk Auditorium: LINDA LIUKAS Founder, Hello Ruby CLAUDIO SASSAKI Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Geekie KARIMA GRANT Executive Director, ImagiNation Afrika Saul/Zilka Room: JUAN MANUEL LOPERA Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Aulas Amigas JANE DIMYAN EHRENFELD Executive Director, Center for Inspired Teaching RODRIGO DEARMAS Co-Founder and Director, UYRobot Session 5: What is Next for the Education Innovations Community? MARCELO CABROL, Moderator Manager of the Social Sector Inter-American Development Bank JAVIER GONZÁLEZ Director, SUMMA Affiliated Lecturer, University of Cambridge DAVID ISTANCE Former Senior Analyst, CERI, OECD Nonresident Senior Fellow, Center for Universal Education GINA LAGOMARSINO President and Chief Executive Officer Results for Development (R4D) ANDERSON COURT REPORTING 706 Duke Street, Suite 100 Alexandria, VA 22314 Phone (703) 519-7180 Fax (703) 519-7190 EDUCATION-2018/05/21 4 ANNA PENIDO Director, Inspirare SAKU TUOMINEN Founder and Chief Executive Officer, HundrE P R O C E E D I N G S MS. WINTHROP: I am so pleased to welcome everybody on this beautiful, beautiful Monday morning. It is not thunderstorming or raining as we had feared. So, this is sign of sign of good things to come for the day. Many, many thanks especially to all of you who have travelled far and wide to join us. Greetings to the many people who are joining us on webcast. I think we have hundreds and hundreds around the world. So, thanks to all of you for joining us too. It’s a real pleasure to be here with my friend and colleague Emiliana Vegas. We are co-hosting this year our annual center’s Policy and Research Forum with the IADB's regional dialogue and it’s a real pleasure. So, thanks to your team for being such collaborators. MS. VEGAS: Thank you everybody. As Rebecca said, I am Emiliana Vegas. I have the honor of leading the education division at the Inter-American Development Bank, where we support countries in Latin America and the Caribbean to help achieve learning and skills among all its youth to help the region meet its full potential. We are especially pleased to welcome ministers and authorities of education from Latin America and Caribbean who are here today to join us. Education innovators from all over the world, funders, policy makers and practitioners to explore the promise of leapfrogging in education. Please note that there are headsets for simultaneous translation below your seats, if you should need them. You can find your headsets under your seats for those of you who need it and ANDERSON COURT REPORTING 706 Duke Street, Suite 100 Alexandria, VA 22314 Phone (703) 519-7180 Fax (703) 519-7190 EDUCATION-2018/05/21 5 then you can follow simultaneous interpretation channel to English. Channel 10, Spanish. And you simply click on the arrow. To take to social media and to carry on the conversation in English and Spanish, with the following hashtag #FutureEdu -- number sign. Today’s symposium is focused on the Citizens of the future: Innovations to leapfrog global education. This topic is especially important to us at the IADB because we are the region that has achieved the fastest growing rates in enrolment but yet our children and our students are not getting the skills they need to succeed. In all the international assessments of student learning, Latin American students are in the bottom end of the distribution. So, we want to learn from innovations that can help our region make this jump and not follow the normal trajectory because if we continue in the path we have been, we will really never reach the levels of learning that we need to advance. This is also a very unusual event. You will have the chance to listen to experts, ask them incisive questions to be listened, and even to experiment and interact with innovators. We encourage your active participation and invite you to collectively reflect on the next steps to strengthen and make real the community of innovators of all kinds. Because when we talk about innovation we do not just talk about technology. We speak of a creative way to face challenges with which educational systems and teachers have dealt with for years. And also, the new challenges to come. And we also speak of opening ourselves to alliances and collaboration among different stakeholders, different sectors to ensure that every young person develops the set of skills they need to be successful and reach their full potential. We are very happy to work with the Center for Universal Education of Brookings. QE also cares deeply about this topic. Has been leading the research agenda led by Rebecca here on leapfrogging in education and this symposium serves as the launch of their book ‘Leapfrogging Inequality - Remaking Education to Help Young People Thrive’. ANDERSON COURT REPORTING 706 Duke Street, Suite 100 Alexandria, VA 22314 Phone (703) 519-7180 Fax (703) 519-7190 EDUCATION-2018/05/21 6 In this first session, we will have several remarks on this topic to get the discussion going and then have a discussion together. MS. WINTHROP: Thank you Emiliana. I want to introduce our first speaker, Valerie Smith who is President of Swarthmore College. You will have her full, long, distinguished biography in your program and your packet. She is a noted scholar on African- American literature and she was at UCLA and at Princeton prior to coming to Swarthmore. But that’s not why we asked you, Val. Why we asked you to come speak is because Swarthmore College, for many of you who may not have heard of it, I am sure everyone in the room will love it after you speak but not necessarily everyone around the globe has heard of Swarthmore College. It’s not only my alma mater but it is a liberal arts college very -- not many places around the world have liberal arts education. It’s often that higher education is much more technical or specialized. And Val and Swarthmore College has thought a lot about what types of competencies and skills and learning environment is necessary to educate leaders for the common good. And we really thought that that insight and what she can share with us, having thought long and hard about this, is helpful for framing the debate about what could and should citizens of the future look like and how should we think about educating them. And so, with that Val, please welcome to the stage. MS. SMITH: Good morning, everyone. Thank you so much, Rebecca for inviting me to be here today. I am honored to be able to address this distinguished body of ministers and authorities of education from Latin America and the Caribbean, education innovators, funders, policy makers, and practitioners. As the product of a liberal arts institution and someone who has spent her entire career as a professor in liberal arts institutions and now President of a liberal arts college, I have had many opportunities to think about the goals and the values of liberal arts education. Today I would like to speak for a few moments about some of the ways I believe liberal arts institutions prepare students for life. ANDERSON COURT REPORTING 706 Duke Street, Suite 100 Alexandria, VA 22314 Phone (703) 519-7180 Fax (703) 519-7190 EDUCATION-2018/05/21 7 First and most significantly, liberal arts colleges and universities have as their primary mission the goal of teaching students to think and to think critically in preparation for an uncertain world.