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DIFFERENT IS BEAUTIFUL

That’s what innovative education is all about
If you are a part of an innovative school’s staff and you wish to share your doing with the world
If you want to learn from teams of outstanding teachers, to travel and visit other innovative schools across the globe and be part of a universal cutting-edge education network

Join Edumission

A GLOBAL CHALLENGE TO MAKE EDUCATION BETTER

Imagine thousands of schools – all different from each other, all unique and groundbreaking – learn from one another by collaborating and creating a global network of exceptional education

THE OPPORTUNITY

Guidance

Receive professional guidance at every stage of the challenge

Prestige

Become part of a meaningful, global change in education

Feedback

Enjoy feedback from leading experts

Publicity

Share your best practices and innovative projects with other educators

Networking

Join a global network with leading educators from all over the world

Travel

Winning participants will get to visit other inspiring schools around the world

Winning Participants Will Take Part in a Leading Global Education Event

PARTICIPATION STAGES

Application

Teaching teams from around the world will submit their innovative and unique programs Ten teams will be selected to participate in the Edumission challenge

Precision

The selected teams will receive professional written and on-line guidance on how to share their unique and groundbreaking projects with the world

Knowledge Sharing

Each team will produce a "video manual" explaining the unique methods they have developed

Learning

Educators throughout the world will be exposed to each other’s programs and will be able to learn from one another

Travelling

Educators will travel the world and be hosted by unique and innovative school teams

BETT Show

The winning team will be awarded flight tickets to the BETT show, the world’s leading educational technology show, to be held in London, England

QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

THE JUDGES

Helena Singer

Education consultant, was a Special Advisor to the Minister of Education of Brazil. Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of... Read more

KEN ROBINSON

Sir Ken Robinson has been named as one of Time/Fortune/CNN’s ‘Principal Voices’. He was acclaimed by Fast Company magazine as one of “the world’s elite... Read more

SUGATA MITRA

In 1999, Prof. Sugata Mitra had asked his employees to tear a big hole in the wall that separated his… Read More

PETER GRAY

Ph.D., research professor at Boston College, is author of Freedom to Learn (Basic Books, 2013) and Psychology (Worth Publishers, a… Read More

YAACOV HECHT

Yaacov Hecht founded the Democratic School of Hadera in Israel, the first school in the world to call itself democratic.… Read More

THE GENERAL PUBLIC

The selection is conducted by a professional panel of judges, along with the audience. The judges’ evaluation will constitute 50… Read More

2017 TIMELINE

April 9th

application submit

April 20th

participants announcement

updated:August 14th

presentation of products

August 15th

online studies

November 1st

world tour

January 25th 2018

BETT convention

EDUMISSION IS A GAME-CHANGING-GAME

Join us, and together we can make education better

the challange had ended

Announcing Edumission 2017 Winners!

We are happy and excited to announce the 3 winning
schools in Edumission 2017

1ST PLACE

No Bell School, Konstancin, Jeziorna Poland

2ND PLACE

Escola Municipal de Ensino Fundamental Desembargador Amorim Lima Brazil

3RD PLACE

Little Forest Folk Primary School, London England

The choice was very hard and many other schools, MOOCs, and teachers came up repeatedly during the process. Since it is virtually impossible to place such different institution along one single scale for rating, we decided to give an honorable mention to a few more.

The list below could have been described as ‘Judges Picks’ or ‘Special Recognition’. We chose to add a notion alongside each pick, describing some of the unique virtues that we and the judges pointed out.

We are proud to call:

Amal Network in Tel Aviv, Israel - for exceptional pedagogic innovation in a school network

The British International School of Houston in Texas, US - for best implementation of pedagogy of the future

Wish School in Sao Paulo, Brazil - for thier holistic approach for education

LIKS in Mexico City - nominated most promissing institution. We have high hopes from you guys!

Escola vila verde in Alto Paraíso de Goiás, Brazil - for making the deepest and most innovative use of environmental learning

Faaborgegnens Efterskole in Faaborg, Denmark - for innovation in a boarding shool

Teia Multicultural in Sao Paulo, Brazil - for demonstrating interdisplanry innovative ways of teaching

We want to take this time and thank all of you for participating! It was a hell of a ride and required tremendous efforts from everyone involved. Stay tuned for an announcement regarding Edumission 2018, and in the meanwhile - keep on rocking it in the journey for sharing educational initiatives all around the world

SCHOOL COURSES

Scuola Manfredini

Scuola Manfredini, Varese, Italy

Go to course

Little Forest Folk

Little Forest Folk, London, UK

Go to course

Amorim Lima

EMEF Des. Amorim Lima, São Paulo, Brazil

Go to course

British International School of Houston

The British International School of Houston, Texas, US

Go to course

Teia Multicultural

Teia Multicultural, São Paulo, Brazil

Go to course

START-UP

Amal Network, Tel Aviv, Israel

Go to course

Colégio Israelita Brasileiro

Colégio Israelita Brasileiro, Porto Alegre, Brazil

Go to course

Jardim-de-infância e Centro de Estudos Miminho

Miminho, Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal

Go to course

Faaborgegnens Efterskole

Faaborgegnens Efterskole, Faaborg, Denmark

Go to course

LIKS

LIKS, Mexico City, Mexico

Go to course

Re-Design

Re-Design, Bucuresti, Romania

Go to course

No Bell Schools

No Bell Schools, Konstancin-Jeziorna, Poland

Go to course

Colégio Oficina Pindorama

Vargem Grande Paulista, SP, Brazil

Go to course

Escola da Toca

Escola da Toca, São Paulo, Brazil

Go to course

Escola Comunitária Cirandas

Escola Comunitária Cirandas, Paraty, Brazil

Go to course

Agrupamento de Escolas Virgínia Moura

Agrupamento de Escolas Virgínia Moura, Guimarães, Portugal

Go to course

West Rise Junior School

West Rise Junior School, Eastbourne, England

Go to course

Colégio Dante Alighieri

Colégio Dante Alighieri, São Paulo, Brazil

Go to course

Life-Wide Learning

Amal Network, Tel Aviv, Israel

Go to course

Escola Projeto Lápis de Cor

Escola Projeto / Lápis de Cor, Curitiba – PR, Brazil

Go to course

Wish School

Wish School, São Paulo, Brazil

Go to course

QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

Registration for the challenge is open to schools from all over the world (especially secondary school and junior high school), which present and implement an innovative educational model. A team which registers through the website must be comprised of at least three teachers. Each school that submits its candidacy for the challenge must pay for airline tickets for members of the team participating in the challenge (at least three teachers) for a visit to one of the other participating schools. Additionally, the school must undertake to host a delegation of teams from around the world, which will come for a visit.

The selection is conducted by a professional team of judges, and the criteria for selecting a team are:

  • A committed team that is suitable to participate in the competition, and highly motivated to embark on a fascinating adventure
  • An extraordinary, groundbreaking and unique school
  • A strong desire to present the unique nature of the school and class to the world
  • Potential for expanding the proposed program to include additional teachers and schools
  • A real passion to learn from other teachers from around the world and to continue to improve
  • Creativity in presenting the school’s unique model

During the first year, which is a pilot program, 20 select schools will participate in the challenge. In the coming years, the challenge will be opened to a larger number of schools.

09.04.17         Completion of the Challenge Registration

20.04.17         Schools selected to participate in the challenge are notified.

15.07.17          Presentation of Products – Each school will prepare a practical video manual that documents its unique model and the manner in which it is to be implemented at other schools.

15.08.17          Online learning of the different models from all over the world, and the manuals that were submitted by the participants in the challenge.

01.10.17          Completion of the learning stage and submitting of the peer evaluation.

01.11.17          Completion of the visits throughout the world.

01.01.18         Announcement of the challenge winners.

25.01.18         Representatives of the winning schools will fly to England to take part in the BETT Show, where the challenge’s closing event will be held and next year’s competition will be launched.

Prizes – The three schools which make it to the competition finals will be awarded airline tickets to England and tickets to participate in the BETT 2018 Show. Tickets will be distributed as follows: the school in first place will be awarded three airline tickets and tickets to the show, the school in second place will be awarded two airline tickets and tickets to the show, and the school in third place will be awarded one airline ticket and one ticket to the show.

Distribution – The educational models participating in the challenge will benefit from wide international distribution and will reach leading teachers and educators from around the world; and the selected teams will become part of a database of leading education lecturers, so they can be invited to give lectures and workshops throughout the world.

Improvement – Schools selected to participate in the challenge will be assigned a professional and unique manual, created by leading professionals in their fields and will they will receive professional support throughout all the stages of the competition.  Additionally, each school’s unique model will receive serious feedback based on the colleague evaluation model and the evaluation of experts from around the world.

Networking – The teams that will take part in the challenge will form new relationships with unique and innovative teachers and schools from around the world.

The final product is an online manual comprised of four lectures lasting at least 5 minutes each.  The manual will present the unique nature of the school and provide practical information to educators who wish to implement the unique model in their own schools.

Please note:  The aforementioned are the minimum prerequisites.  We are confident in the creativity of the participating teams; and from our standpoint, the sky is the limit.

As part of this challenge, the teams will receive an organized manual that will teach them how to present their video content in a professional manner: how to record, film and edit. Therefore the teams do not require advance technical knowledge.  On the other hand, all the teams must demonstrate a real desire to learn new things.

The selection is conducted by a professional panel of judges, along with the audience.  The judges’ evaluation will constitute fifty percent of the final score and the audience’s evaluation will make up the remaining fifty percent of the final decision.

We are the Education Cities team, committed to changing the face of global education for the better.  We are big believers in games, competitions and challenges and are confident that this is a wonderful method for facilitating a real change in the educational systems.  We have chosen to promote the Edumission Challenge in order to expose the world’s teachers to the wonderful knowledge that is developing in other classrooms and to enable teachers from around the globe to learn from one another.

helena singer

Education consultant, was a Special Advisor to the Minister of Education of Brazil. Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Sao Paulo, with a post-doctorate in Education from the University of Campinas. Singer was visiting scholar at Coimbra University (Portugal) and University of Pennsilvania (USA). Author of books and articles on education and human rights published in Brazil and abroad.

KEN ROBINSON

Sir Ken Robinson has been named as one of Time/Fortune/CNN’s ‘Principal Voices’. He was acclaimed by Fast Company magazine as one of “the world’s elite thinkers on creativity and innovation” and was ranked in the Thinkers50 list of the world’s top business thinkers. In 2003, he received a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II for his services to the arts. His book The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything (Penguin/Viking, 2009) is a New York Times bestseller. It has been translated into 23 languages and has sold over a million copies worldwide. A 10th anniversary edition of his classic work on creativity and innovation, Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative was published in 2011. Finding Your Element: How to Discover Your Talents and Passions and Transform Your Life (Viking, 2013), also a New York Times bestseller, is the acclaimed companion to the Element, and provides readers with a practical guide to finding and developing their own talents and vocations. His latest book, Creative Schools: The Grassroots Revolution That’s Transforming Education (Viking, 2015), tackles the critical issue of how to transform the world’s troubled educational systems and is now available in 15 languages.

SUGATA MITRA

In 1999, Prof. Sugata Mitra had asked his employees to tear a big hole in the wall that separated his offices from the neighboring overcrowded slum. In its place an internet station was installed – a permanent gear that included a touch-screen computer and free internet connection. He wanted to know if it is possible that kids without any guidance or previous knowledge could gain entry into new worlds of knowledge, if provided with the appropriate conditions. The station became immediate success among the neighborhood’s residents, and mainly among the kids, who began using the computer without any pre-training. Since then, the Hole in The Wall Project has gained momentum and spread out to additional cities, becoming a well-known project that generated worldwide astonishment. Following these experiences, Prof. Mitra developed the SOLE (Self Organized Learning Environment) which operates and develops in Newcastle University in the UK.

PETER GRAY

Ph.D., research professor at Boston College, is author of Freedom to Learn (Basic Books, 2013) and Psychology (Worth Publishers, a college textbook now in its 7th edition). He has conducted and published research in comparative, evolutionary, developmental, and educational psychology. He did his undergraduate study at Columbia University and earned a Ph.D. in biological sciences at Rockefeller University. His current research and writing focus primarily on children’s natural ways of learning and the life-long value of play.

“Children come into the world with instinctive drives to educate themselves. These include the drives to play and explore”. Peter Gray, in his blog in Psychology Today, talks about these drives and ways by which we could create learning environments that optimize rather than suppress them.

YAACOV HECHT

Yaacov Hecht founded the Democratic School of Hadera in Israel, the first school in the world to call itself democratic. He then helped to establish a network of democratic schools all over Israel.
In 1993, he convened the first IDEC
Shortly after, Hecht founded the Institute for Democratic Education in Israel (IDE), and within it, the academic faculty for DE teachers. His book “Democratic Education: A Beginning of a Story”, which has been translated into English, Portuguese, and Bulgarian, is a source of inspiration for groundbreaking educators and entrepreneurs all over the world.

In 2010, Hecht founded “Education Cities – the Art of Collaborations” an organization that promotes collaboration and networking in the classroom, in the school, in the city, in the country and in the world.

Yaacov is a distinguished and sought after speaker around the world, and lectures on issues that are close to his heart: artificial intelligence, social networks, Big Data, Disruptive Innovation, Augmented reality, and the ways these issues influence our life.

Yaacov regards the preparing and directing of the educational system towards the future as his main mission today.

THE GENERAL PUBLIC

The selection is conducted by a professional panel of judges, along with the audience. The judges’ evaluation will constitute 50 percent of the final score and the audience’s evaluation will make up the remaining 50 percent of the final decision.

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