THE EDUCATION REOPEN GLOBAL CHALLENGE
How might we strengthen school communities, as the sites reopen, by highlighting solutions that reconnect people and enhance collective wellbeing, teaching, and learning?
“From the digital divide to the massive learning losses due to the pandemic, the education system is being confronted with a host of challenges on a scale not seen in modern history,” said Alan Arkatov, founding director of Center EDGE. “The Education Solutions Exchange is an exciting outgrowth of what we learned early in the pandemic — that creative, relevant, and relatively simple solutions can bring a quantifiable voice to those on the frontlines of education, and can have impact in timely, effective, and efficient ways.”
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SELECTION OF THE AWARD WINNING PROGRAMS
USC Center EDGE Announces Awardees of the Education Solutions Exchange
Transformative international challenge solicited scalable strategies to help districts, schools, and students coping with the pandemic
About USC Rossier School of Education Center for Engagement-Driven Global Education
(Center EDGE)
Center EDGE fuels interdisciplinary collaboration to bring high quality, sustainable innovation to
scale in the crucial area of educational engagement—the activities and techniques used to
pique and grow student interests and motivation to learn both within and beyond the traditional
school day.
About Andrew Nikou Foundation
Driven by core values of connection, collaboration, and scale, the Andrew Nikou Foundation
serves as a resource for big ideas that can improve the lives of people who are disconnected,
oppressed, and left-behind. A network of partnerships with diverse experts inform ANF’s
approach to social inclusion, education innovation and financial inclusion.
About IDEO
IDEO is a global design firm creating positive impact through design. We are a community of
designers, entrepreneurs, engineers, teachers, and researchers. Early leaders of
human-centered design, we design for people first, always adapting to complex challenges. We
build to learn, and learn as we build—through inspiration, ideation, and implementation.
PROGRAMS EVALUATION
How might we strengthen school communities, as the sites reopen, by highlighting solutions that reconnect people and enhance collective wellbeing, teaching, and learning?
- 256 SUBMITTED
- 34 COUNTRIES
- 42 STATES
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Innovators whose solutions are featured on the site each received $1,000 for their participation and dedication to strengthening school communities.
Winning entries, chosen in part for their simplicity and ability to immediately impact students’ needs, include:
- Mental Health Check In: A simple, low-cost, easily implementable system for students to communicate their emotional wellbeing and give teachers insight into how the class is feeling overall, and in particular to students who may need extra support.
- The 3 M’s: Media, Middle School, Mindfulness: A curriculum that teaches students to become more discerning with information seen on the internet, and to determine if it’s coming from a trustworthy source, which is especially critical in light of the disinformation surrounding the pandemic and vaccines.
- Core Values in the Community: A program designed to reward students who demonstrate the values of Gratitude, Responsibility, Integrity, and Tenacity, and are given “GRITcoin” that can later be spent on things like raffles and pop-up shops at their schools. The program recognizes that students are anxious about returning to school, and yet they can be inspired to turn those feelings into something positive.
- A Trusted Space: a free, cutting-edge, research-based film and curriculum for educators on how to help mitigate the effects of the grief, trauma, anxiety, and other emotional stressors that so many students are facing.