CCR and South Africa’s NECT announce partnership

The Center for Curriculum Redesign (CCR) and South Africa’s National Education Collaboration Trust (NECT) announced a partnership to develop 21st Century learning models and practices.

EdHub is the innovation unit within the NECT with an explicit mandate to promote and support innovation in education. It aims to coordinate innovation for 21st Century education so that it can impact, at scale, the public basic education system in South Africa and ultimately improve education outcomes and quality of life for all.

A recently initiated channel within the EdHub is the establishment of the “21st Century Schools Sandbox” initiative that intends to set up a laboratory for 21st Century schooling models in the public sector, where various innovative models for teaching and learning can be trialed. Through the implementation of this project, a body of evidence will be gathered to assist in proving the case for the integration of 21st Century teaching and learning practices into the South African public schooling system.

Godwin Khosa, CEO of the NECT, stated, “The CCR/NECT Partnership is ambitious yet practical, as we are playing in the transformation and not the improvement space. But we will keep focused on trialing and testing while feeding key findings into the basic education sector throughout the process.”

Charles Fadel, founder of CCR, added, “We are delighted to advise and assist the NECT with its EdHub/Sandbox initiatives to serve as a model for South African schools. The attachment to 21st Century Competencies of Skills, Character, and Meta-Learning is both refreshing and leading edge.”

The NECT is an organization dedicated to strengthening partnerships between government, business, labor and civil society to achieve South Africa’s national goals for basic education. It strives both to support and influence the agenda to reform education through a variety of capacity-building interventions, monitoring and evaluation, research, and advocacy. With cross-sectoral governance spanning government, business, labor & civil society, the NECT is uniquely positioned to identify, enable and fast-track change in the basic education system.

CCR is a non-profit global organization dedicated to improving Education and openly propagating its recommendations and frameworks on a worldwide basis, via answering this question: “What should students learn for the 21st Century?” CCR brings together international organizations, jurisdictions, academic institutions, corporations, and non-profit organizations including foundations. It focuses on designing and propagating new curricula and assessments.

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CCR and SOMOS Eduçao announce partnership

The Center for Curriculum Redesign (CCR) announced a partnership with Somos Educação, the largest basic education group in Latin America, for the development of 21st century competencies in its curriculum – which reaches over 30 million students in Brazil.

The Brazilian Ministry of Education recently released the country´s first mandatory curriculum, the “BNCC.” According to Renato Nunes Dias, head of Curriculum and Assessment at Somos, “the partnership with CCR will result in the delivery of a free platform for schools and teachers nationwide, offering them the tools to build their curricula, transforming 21st century competencies into daily practice.”

Leticia Lyle, head of Somos Institute, said, “This opportunity to give back to our country is unique in our history.  We are proud and pleased to be developing deep competencies of knowledge, skills and character and their mapping to the BNCC, including the embedding into disciplines such as Mathematics, Language, etc.  Our partnership with the CCR, coupled with our innovative digital platform, are allowing us to develop curricula deeper and faster than at any time before, and make the BNCC vision a reality in the classrooms.”

Charles Fadel, founder of CCR, added, “In Somos, CCR has found a leading-edge, open-minded and progressive partner that understands that our four-dimensional (“4-D”) framework, available in 16 languages including Portuguese, is versatile and adaptable as well as detailed and actionable. We are delighted to be helping the BNCC and Somos comprehensively assist teachers and students to learn at their fullest.”

Both organizations expect that by September 2018 they will introduce the first instances of the free curriculum on the platform to test with teachers and students.

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