A Fundadora e CEO da rede global Teach For All, Wendy Kopp, foi reconhecida com um dos mais importantes prémios da Educação, o prémio WISE – World Innovation Summit for Education, reforçando o trabalho que a Teach For Portugal está a fazer, enquanto parceira da rede global que adapta ao contexto português o modelo desenvolvido.
O prémio reconhece a Wendy pela sua contribuição na promoção de uma maior equidade na Educação através da rede global Teach For All e as suas organizações parceiras. Pelas palavras da Wendy:
“This is a tribute to the whole Teach For All community. To all the social entrepreneurs and team members who’ve given life to the work of our global network in their countries, all the network’s teachers and alumni across the world who have poured their hearts and souls into the effort to ensure that all children fulfill their potential, and also our global team members who work so hard to foster learning and accelerate progress across our network.”
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“We’re thrilled to announce that Teach For All’s CEO and Co-founder, Wendy Kopp, was awarded the 2021 WISE Prize for Education at the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) in Doha, Qatar, this week. Wendy received the honor for “developing through Teach For All the concept that meaningful, sustainable education change needs leaders who are rooted in their communities, and believe in the potential to transform them so as to deliver the opportunities all children deserve.”
Established in 2009 by the Qatar Foundation, the WISE Prize for Education is the first global distinction of its kind to acknowledge individuals for their outstanding contributions to education. “The work of the 2021 Laureate embodies the values of the WISE Prize,” said WISE CEO Stavros Yiannouka during the award ceremony. “Teach For All is a movement that demonstrates that it is possible to be global in scale and scope, while at the same time remaining deeply rooted in local contexts and cultures.”
“This is a tribute to the whole Teach For All community,” Wendy shared. “To all the social entrepreneurs and team members who’ve given life to the work of our global network in their countries, all the network’s teachers and alumni across the world who have poured their hearts and souls into the effort to ensure that all children fulfill their potential, and also our global team members who work so hard to foster learning and accelerate progress across our network.”
In her address during the event’s closing ceremony, Wendy recounted three key lessons she’s learned over the course of a career fighting inequity that began at the age of 21. “I’ve come to believe that if we can act on these three learnings—by reorienting education towards the purpose of developing students who can shape a better future, making intentional efforts to develop locally rooted collective leadership for realizing this purpose, and creating opportunities for these local leaders to learn from each other across borders—we can change the trajectory of the world.”
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To learn more about Wendy Kopp’s journey, watch this profile produced by WISE. Read Wendy’s Closing Plenary address for more on the lessons she’s learned and her call to determined, thoughtful, innovative young adults around the world to channel their energy into working together with marginalized communities to transform the systems around children who have the potential to reshape the world.”
