Empowering Teachers to Build a Better World

This book is a valuable resource to system leaders or policy makers keen to make change in their education or school system. (Pak Tee Ng, Educational Research for Policy and Practice, Vol. 19, 2020)

Fernando M. Reimers is the Ford Foundation Professor of the Practice of International Education and Director of the Global Education Innovation Initiative and of the International Education Policy Masters Program at Harvard University. An expert in the field of Global Education, his research and teaching focus on understanding how to educate children and youth so they can thrive in the 21st century. He is a member of UNESCOs commission on the Futures of Education.Recent books include Teaching and Learning for the 21st Century, Preparing Teachers to Educate Whole Students: An International Comparative Study, Letters to a New Minister of Education, Learning to Improve the World, Empowering Global Citizens, Empowering Students to Improve the World in Sixty Lessons, and Learning to Collaborate for the Global Common Good. Prof. Reimers serves on the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education, where he chairs the strategic planning committee, andserves on the board of directors of multiple education organizations, including Facing History and Ourselves, Teach for All, and World Teach. In 2019, he received a Centennial Medal from the International Institute of Education for his work advancing international education. In 2017 he received the Global Citizen Award from the Committee on Teaching About the United Nations (CTAUN) for his work advancing global citizenship education. In 2015 he was appointed the C.J. Koh Visiting Professor of Education at the National Institute of Education in Singapore in recognition of his work in global education. He received an honorary doctorate from Emerson College for his work advancing human rights education, is a fellow of the International Academy of Education, and is a member of the Council of Foreign Relations.

1 Building teacher capacity to educate the whole child. Lessons from comparative experience.- 2 Supporting mathematics instruction for mastery in England.- 3 Supporting all teachers in learning in Colombia.- 4 Policies for Teacher Professionalization in Mexicos Education Reform.- 5 Building teacher capacity at the Telangana Social Welfare Residential Educational Institution Society.- 6 Cambodias New Generation Schools Reform.- 7 Twenty first century learning in Burlington Public Schools.