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Standards and working conditions 15 January 2024
Innovative impact: Learning Circles create joy in Swiss classrooms through creative formative assessment practices

Concluding at the end of 2023, the Teacher-led Learning Circles for Formative Assessment (T3LFA) project in Switzerland took a distinctive form. Containing only one circle composed of one facilitator and two primary school teachers, the small scale of the circle project in Switzerland did not prevent the teachers involved from...
Innovative impact: Learning Circles create joy in Swiss classrooms through creative formative assessment practices
Standards and working conditions 30 November 2023
Early childhood educators: New data on the challenges they face raises the alarm about an education sector at risk

Isidora Vitorović

Research by Education International reveals that early childhood education (ECE) personnel have been among the education workers whose employment conditions were most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Preliminary findings of an ongoing research also identify this chronically underfunded sector as one of the most threatened by the global teacher shortage.
Early childhood educators: New data on the challenges they face raises the alarm about an education sector at risk
Standards and working conditions 10 October 2023
Educator well-being in focus: International report reveals alarming challenges

A milestone report launched on World Mental Health Day, offers a comprehensive look at the health and well-being of education personnel worldwide.
Educator well-being in focus: International report reveals alarming challenges
Leading the profession 1 August 2023
Teachers as change agents and knowledge creators

Dr. David Frost

The HertsCam Network is currently playing an enabling role in the ‘Teacher-Led Learning Circles for Formative Assessment’ project led by Educational International and funded by the Jacobs Foundation. At HertsCam, we are committed to ‘non-positional teacher leadership’ in which any teacher can be empowered and enabled to lead the development...
Teachers as change agents and knowledge creators
Leading the profession 5 February 2023
Teacher-Led Learning Circles on Formative Assessments: Supporting teachers’ professional development and leadership around the globe

Education International, the global federation of education unions, is launching the Teacher-led Learning Circles on Formative Assessments project with funding from the Jacobs Foundation. The project aims to provide teachers with tools and support to identify and establish effective teacher-led formative assessment practices that can be disseminated within and across...
Teacher-Led Learning Circles on Formative Assessments: Supporting teachers’ professional development and leadership around the globe
Equity and inclusion 16 December 2021
Education unions in Germany, the UK, Switzerland, Canada, the USA and South Africa call on governments to support vaccine equity

Education International member organisations in Germany, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Canada, the United States of America and South Africa are calling on governments to support the temporary waiver of intellectual property rights on Covid-19 vaccines and treatments at the World Trade Organization. If adopted, the waiver would enable an expansion...
Education unions in Germany, the UK, Switzerland, Canada, the USA and South Africa call on governments to support vaccine equity