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Inspiration talk, fireside chat & workshop

Education for all

Description

INSPIRATIONAL TALK | Changemakers developing changemakers (10 Min)
Inês and Francisco talked about their individual journeys from such disparate socio-economic backgrounds and how they stand on the same point: the certainty that socio-economic background should not dictate the opportunities a child has in life. By empowering the youngest with the knowledge and sense of possibility to be leaders in their own communities, it is possible to begin to change inequality of opportunities. These are changemakers developing changemakers.

FIRESIDE CHAT | How can a NGO inform public policy in Education? (50 Min)
Pedro Almeida, CEO of Teach For Portugal, took a commented interview to Dr Neli Koleva PhD, Chief Officer of Public Policy of Teach For Bulgaria, from the global network Teach For All, about their experience on how a NGO can inform public policy in the field of education, focusing on the Novice Educator Support and Trainning (NEST). A project that aim to examine the impact of mentor training and offer a roadmap for improvements and solutions on how we can support new teachers working in disadvantaged contexts, building a path to inform public policy on education.

WORKSHOP | Systemic Change in Education (01h20)
Using the methodology of collaborative leadership and the 4 lenses on which Teach For All’s model of intervention is based (1. Pupil as leader; 2. Adult as learner; 3. Community as asset; 4. Our work as systemic), this session addressed the need for systemic change in education to raise awareness about causes and consequences of the problem of educational inequalities and find key elements in these cycles with the potential to produce a cascading change effect, if they are changed.

Participants

Max. 45

Duration

2 hours

Location

B134

Contributors

Inês Justino

Teach For Portugal Mentor

Portugal

Francisco Cardoso

Teach For Portugal Mentor

Portugal

Pedro Almeida

CEO & Co-Founder of Teach For Portugal

Portugal

Dr Neli Koleva PhD

Chief Officer of Public Policy of Teach For Bulgaria

Bulgaria

Maria Azevedo

Co-Founder & Head of Training Teach For Portugal

Portugal

Organization
Celebrating
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Inês Justino

Born and raised in Algarve, Inês is a Sociology graduate and post-graduated. Ever since she was little, Inês wanted to go to university, but her parents didn’t support her financially. So she started working while studying. At 21 she discovered her passion for Education. She found Teach For Portugal and she truly believes all children must have an education that allows them to fulfill their potential, regardless of their socioeconomic background. Now, Inês is a Teach For Portugal Mentor at Agrupamento de Escolas Alexandre Herculano.

Francisco Cardoso

Francisco is a Law graduate and he has worked with children, as a volunteer, since he was 17 years old in inumerous summer camps, activities and groups. These experiences gave him the desire to help children find their talents and put them in service of others. Because he wanted to find ways for more children to get these opportunities, Francisco joined Teach For Portugal in 2021 as a Mentor at Agrupamento de Escolas de São João do Estoril.

Pedro Almeida

Pedro graduated in Electrical Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering in Porto, and then did an MBA at INSEAD. He worked in London as an analyst for a consulting firm in Fast Moving Consumer Goods and then at Bain in Madrid as a Strategy Consultant. He was the Director of Strategic Marketing in a multinational industrial group, in the United States and Portugal, where he has worked in the financial and business development areas. In addition to teaching during college, Pedro volunteered in Angola where he taught English in the most vulnerable communities of Benguela. This transformative experience was the basis for launching Teach For Portugal, because Pedro does not accept the current reality where so many children, depending on the place they are born, have so little opportunities to develop their full potential.

Dr Neli Koleva PhD

Dr. Neli Koleva, PhD is the Head of Government Relations & Public Partnerships at Teach for Bulgaria where she has worked for the past 11 years. She has led two successful multi-national teams in KA3 Eramus + projects in policy experimentation (www.newtt.eu, www.projectnest.eu). In 2021, she served as an advisor to the caretaker Minister of Education and Science. Dr Koleva teaches a course on social entrepreneurship at the American University of Bulgaria’s EMBA program.

Maria Azevedo

Maria graduated in Biochemistry and worked as a cancer researcher for 10 years. After working and living in Portugal, London and Madrid, at the end of her PhD, she had the opportunity to move to Manvi, a small town in central India, where she taught Biology and Chemistry at secondary school for 1 year. What Maria learned from her students and from the children of the orphanage where she lived was much more than she taught. This year changed her forever. In 2015, Maria joined Pedro in founding Teach For Portugal as she believes that only the transformation of education can make our world fairer. It is in this better world that Maria wants her children and all children to grow up. For her, it is a privilege to be able to contribute to change!