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Quality schools engage students, promote community, develop abstract thinking skills, and raise aspirations. Students develop talents they did not know they had and acquire valued skills. Physical, social, and visual skills grow with mathematical, language, and problem-solving skills.

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Why quality education matters

Education can help young people break an intergenerational cycle of poverty. But this is only possible if education is approached in a meaningful way. In 2012, the UN's former Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said:

"Education is about more than literacy and numeracy - it is also about citizenry. Education must fully assume its central role in helping people to forge more just, peaceful and tolerant societies."

This is what we mean by "quality" education: We need a standard to measure how effective an education is in order to set students up for success in the rest of their lives.

Concern Worldwide's CRAAIN (Collective Responsibility, Action and Accountability for Improved Nutrition) program is a community-based initiative designed to build the resilience of communities, including educational projects. Through CRAAIN, schools have multiple committees to encourage young people to become more active in their communities. (Photo: Gavin Douglas / Concern Worldwide)

How we measure Quality Education

The UN has outlined several targets within their larger education-related SDG that help us to set a standard of quality.

1. Building relevant skills for financial success

Participants listen during a Life Skills session as part of the IAPF integrated program in Sierra Leone. IAPF is an integrated livelihoods, education, and health/nutrition program with a Safe Learning Model component. It aims to achieve sustainable improvements in children's literacy and well-being and gender equality in schools and local communities. (Photo: Conor O'Donovan / Concern Worldwide)

Extreme poverty is a lack of assets or a lack of return on those assets. One of these assets are skills, including technical and vocational skills. The more relevant these skills are in the 21st Century, the more likely they are to generate a return. This not only means understanding how relevant skills have changed against the digital revolution and automation, but also against climate change, shifting societal norms, and political realities.

2. Eliminating discrimination in education

Aminata (15) attneds Benevolent Islamic PRI School in Yele Town, Sierra Leone. (Photo: Gavin Douglas / Concern Worldwide)

Education is a fundamental human right. However, there are 244 million children around the world who aren't in the classroom. Many of them are excluded due to some form of discrimination. Girls' education is particularly under threat here, with over 129 million girls missing out on a basic human right. Quality Education means equality in education - at all levels.

3. Universal literacy and numeracy

Amida Tuyishimire (14), daughter of Violette Bukeyeneza with her school books and pens for the education she is now able to receive because of the Graduation Program at her home in Bukinanyana, Cibitoke, Burundi. (Photo: Abbie Trayler-Smith / Concern Worldwide)

According to UNESCO, if all adults had just literacy and numeracy skills, an estimated 171 million people could escape extreme poverty. However, UNESCO also estimates that there are 781 million illiterate adults around the globe. Many of these adults have completed several years of education but remain unable to read or count due to different barriers.

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What does Quality Education mean? Breaking down SDG #4

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Quality Education is the UN's fourth Sustainable Development Goal, and a phrase we use a lot in development work. But what does "quality" mean in this context?

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Everything you wanted to know about teaching on a podcast produced by the editors and writers at the world-renowned tes. We interview leading researchers, start fierce debates between staff and deep dive into the biggest issues facing education.

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Comment on Chair episode 15th October 2020

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Check out this great listen on Audible.com. Tom Rademacher wishes someone had handed him this sort of book along with his teaching degree: a clear-eyed, frank, boots-on-the ground account of what he was getting into. But first he had to write it. And as 2014’s Minnesota Teacher of the Year, Radema…

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Author Joanna Gaines follows up her #1 New York Times bestselling We Are the Gardeners with The World Needs Who You Were Made to Be. This children's book, beautifully illustrated by Julianna Swaney, celebrates how creativity and acceptance can come together in a bright and beautiful adventure.
Book Synopsis In the #1 New York Time

We should celebrate every child's one-of-a-kind strengths as well as teamwork and acceptance of differences

Everything can be made more beautiful when we share our talents and abilities

We should lend a helping hand and do our best to take care of one another

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bestseller The World Needs Who You Were Made to Be, Joanna Gaines and illustrator Julianna Swaney celebrate how creativity and acceptance can come together to make for a bright and beautiful adventure. The book follows a group of children as they each build their very own hot-air balloons. As the kids work together, leaning into their own skills and processes, to fill the sky with beautiful colors, we discover that the same is true for life--it's more beautiful and vibrant when our differences are celebrated.
Together with Joanna, you and your kids will take a journey of growth and imagination as you learn in full color that:

The World Needs Who You Were Made to Be is a vibrant picture book perfect for:

With plenty of pink, a bounty of blue, orange and green and yellow too, this vibrant hot-air balloon adventure celebrates every child and teaches kids that we are in this together. "You're one of a kind, and it's so clear to see: The world needs who you were made to be."

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5 Practices for Equity-Focused School Leadership

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5 Practices for Equity-Focused School Leadership

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Sharon I. Radd , EdD, is Program Director and Associate Professor of Organizational Leadership at St. Catherine University, Principal at Sankalpa Consulting, and an Equity Fellow for the Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center at IUPUI. Prior to entering higher education, she spent 23 years in K-12 public education as a school social worker, building-level administrator, district administrator, and professional development provider. Awarded a 2006 Archibald Bush Leadership Fellowship and winner of the 2010 Social Justice Dissertation Award given by the American Educational Research Association LSJ-SIG, she specializes in the areas of leadership, educational equity, adult learning, organizational change, team functioning, and cross-cultural proficiency. Radd holds bachelor's degrees in sociology and social work; a master's degree in educational leadership; and, from the University of St. Thomas, an EdD in leadership.

Gretchen Givens Generett , PhD, is Interim Dean and Professor of Foundations in the School of Education at Duquesne University. She holds the Noble J. Dick Endowed Chair in Community Outreach at Duquesne, where she has served as the Director for the University Council Educational Administration Center for Educational Leadership and Social Justice and the Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Research. She is a qualitative researcher whose scholarship intermingles traditional sociology of education, African American studies, and feminist studies with more progressive concepts of justice that examine agency, empowerment, and action. Her most recent scholarship is a book entitled The American Dream for Students of Color: Barriers to Educational Success , coauthored with Dr. Amy M. Olson. Generett received her BA in English from Spelman College and her PhD in Foundations of Education from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Mark Anthony Gooden , PhD, is the Christian Johnson Endeavor Professor in Education Leadership and Director of the Endeavor Antiracist & Restorative Leadership Initiative at Teachers College, Columbia University. He is the former Director of the Summer Principals Academy-NYC in the Department of Organization and Leadership at Teachers College. His research focuses broadly on culturally responsive school leadership with specific interests in antiracist leadership, the principalship, urban educational leadership, and legal issues in education. Before entering higher education, he served as a secondary mathematics teacher and departmental chairperson in Columbus (OH) Public Schools. He has spent two decades in higher education. Gooden earned his BA in mathematics from Albany State University (a historically Black college/university). He holds an MEd in mathematics education, and an MA and a PhD in policy and leadership, all from The Ohio State University.

George Theoharis , PhD, is a Professor in Educational Leadership and Inclusive Education at Syracuse University. He has extensive field experience in public education as a principal and teacher. At Syracuse, he previously served as Department Chair, Associate Dean for Urban Education Partnerships, and the Director of Field Relations. His interests, research, and work with K-12 schools focus on issues of equity, justice, diversity, inclusion, leadership, and school reform. His books, The School Leaders Our Children Deserve (2009), Leadership for Increasingly Diverse Schools (2015), What Every Principal Needs to Know to Create Excellent and Equitable Schools (2012), and The Principal's Handbook for Leading Inclusive Schools (2014), focus on issues of leadership and creating more equitable schools. Theoharis's PhD is in educational leadership and policy analysis from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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Five Practices for Equity-Focused School Leadership

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How can we ensure quality education for all?

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Teacher quality: What it is, why it matters, and how to get more of it (Durrington researchED, 2020)

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Understand Goal 4: Quality Education (Primary)

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Charis Anthony Ogbimi: Quality Education for All

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Quality Education is a term sometimes used loosely. But what does it really mean when we say every child deserves quality education?

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This talk focuses on how everyone has the right to quality education. Roger will discuss how changes could be made to enhance children's life chances.

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Makhtoum Abdalla: Education is a fundamental right for every child

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For children growing up in refugee camps, education is a powerful tool of liberation. In this inspiring talk, Makhtoum Abdalla, displaced as a child in Sudan and now living with his family in the Otash camp in Darfur, shares his biggest dream: to ensure all children are educated and taught the skills needed to become "captains of their destiny."