The 2024/5 UNESCO GEM Report due out in November will not only examine the requirements of good leadership in education, but also aims to spotlight the stories of effective education leaders from around the world.UNESCO is calling for nominations of individuals who have shown leadership. You can nominate champions by sending us information to [email protected] or by providing information on this Google form. We want to know why you have nominated them. We are interested to know their background, what inspired them and what has been their key contribution. Hopefully, the GEM report will take a  systems approach surrounding individual stories. The UNESCO web page about the 2025 report notes that The 2024/5 GEM Report will examine the requirements of good leadership in education and how they vary between countries and over time. It will look at the visions and goals that are driving leadership in education, and will examine the extent and through what practices the exercise of leadership contributes to better education outcomes. External factors including social, cultural, governance conditions will be looked at to see how they impact on effective leadership, as well as the policy levers that can be used to develop leadership skills in different contexts.  A set of questions will be formulated alongside the report to guide the collection of information and laws and policies related to the selection, preparation and development of school leaders that will be featured in PEER country profiles and will inform the report. A global group of educator organizations representing principals (ICP), teachers (EI), counselors(IAC), psychologists (IASP), support workers (PSA-I), school system administrators (AASA, CASSA), senior school leaders (ASCD/ISTE) and education deans  (GNDE) will be organizing a series of webinars emphasizing the role of different educators and the need for sustained leadership development within a broader framework of workforce and professional development.

International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / The World Bank This paper lays out four concrete ways in which governments can protect education systems from climate change so that their positive impacts on economic development, poverty alleviation, and social cohesion can be sustained and boosted. These are: (i) education management for resilience; (ii) school infrastructure for resilience; (iii) ensuring learning continuity in the face of climate shocks; and (iv) leveraging students and teachers as change agents. The paper presents an actionable agenda for each of these with operational examples in different contexts. Go to the report.

Webinar 23 May 2024, Thursday OPTION 1: 10:00-11:30 AM, UK, OPTION 2: 14:00-15:30, UK Zoom link: https://worldvision.zoom.us/j/99186780362 This webinar will provide a thorough overview of the newly improved resources aimed at promoting holistic child development. Our updated resources underscore a strong emphasis on responsive, play-based learning methodologies, with a special focus on the most vulnerable such as children with disabilities. These resources encompass a diverse array of materials developed for children, caregivers, educators, volunteers, and community stakeholders.

Wednesday Webinars for Wellbeing, is a series of seven webinars highlighting diverse approaches for children, youth and families’ mental health and wellbeing in humanitarian settings. The webinars series is planned and presented by the members of the Child and Family Thematic Group under the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) MHPSS Reference Group.The recordings and related resource material will all be made available on this page after each new webinar is completed.

The new INEE Minimum Standards for Education: Preparedness, Response, Recovery, 2024 Edition is now available in English, with Arabic, French, Spanish, and Portuguese translations forthcoming. Since 2004, the INEE Minimum Standards (INEE MS) have provided a framework for quality education in emergencies (EiE). INEE and the Geneva Global Hub for Education in Emergencies held a hybrid launch of the INEE Minimum Standards for Education, 2024 Edition at the Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Weeks (HNPW) in Geneva. Watch the recording of the launch event here, and read more about the launch here.

The report/discussion focused on school meals within the culture and tradition of the indigenous community of Quilombo do Campinho. Brazil. The Brazilian National School Feeding Programme (PNAE) is supported by a federal law that serves the public-school community in Brazil,. Under the national programme, among other important provisions, at least 30 percent of the funds transferred by the federal government to public schools for the implementation of school meals must be spent exclusively on purchases from family farmers, and the closer they are to the school, the better. Go to the report...

nThe Health in All Policies framework is used in the health sector to coordinate with other ministries and agencies. The Canada/Quebec National Collaborating Centre on Public Health Policies facilitates the Global HiAP Coalition and its Canadian counterpart. The Centre recently organized a webinar in five local examples of how the health sector can reach out to others. Go to the recording and slides.

This brief calls attention to the need for dedicated resources and policies that address the unique needs of young children and their families, caregivers, and communities during acute emergencies. By raising awareness and providing evidence-based recommendations, the brief aims to encourage collaboration across different sectors and stakeholders to work together to create fundamental, lasting changes. Go to the brief.

Living in a democratic and always changing world, children have to learn the basic facts about their rights and to acquire the needed democratic life skills. Such democratic life skills can be reinforced through the surrounding environment itself, such schools. A Child Friendly School is a framework designed by UNICEF as the answer to the above needs. A Child Friendly School is a school that recognizes and nurtures the achievement of children's basic rights. A school is considered child friendly when it provides a safe, clean, healthy and protective environment for all children Go to the article

Join KM Gopakumar, legal advisor at Third World Network, and Jyotsna Singh from the People’s Health Movement as they delve into the ongoing negotiations surrounding the Pandemic Treaty. Over the past two years, World Health Organization members have been discussing a new document aimed at strengthening global pandemic response, drawing from lessons learned during the COVID-19 crisis. However, with the deadline for submitting a draft text to the World Health Assembly approaching in May 2024, high-income countries seem poised to obstruct efforts by those in the Global South to foster solidarity and collaboration in pandemic response. Go to the recording.

 The Caribbean Observatory on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights and several other organizations have published a policy guide on Towards a better future: Enacting policy and legislation to guarantee comprehensive sexuality education for youth in and out-of school. Go to the resource.

The School Threat Assessment Toolkit is designed to aid schools in employing behavioral threat assessment (TA) and management as part of a comprehensive violence prevention strategy. Authored primarily by Dewey Cornell and Jennifer Maeng, and with input from school safety leaders, experts, government agencies, and the US National Center for School Safety, the toolkit offers guidance on training, implementation, and assessment of school TA teams. It aims to ensure fidelity to student rights while providing practical tools like documents, forms, videos, and additional resources to support schools’ efforts. Go to the resource.

Fox News: Tedros said he issued a similar warning in 2018 and was proven right when COVID-19 struck. World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus has issued a new warning about the likelihood of Disease X breaking out, telling global world leaders it is "a matter of when, not if" a new pathogen and pandemic will strike. Tedros, who goes by his first name and is not a medical doctor, told attendees at the World Government Summit in Dubai earlier his week he gave a similar warning in 2018 that a pandemic was likely to hit, and he was proven right with the outbreak of the deadly coronavirus. Complaining that the world is still ill-prepared for a new pandemic, Tedros once again touted the urgent need for a global treaty to be agreed upon by May and dismissed suspicions of it being a WHO power grab as outlandish.Go to news story