{"id":93199,"date":"2024-03-15T19:47:19","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T22:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/summaedu.org\/sin-categoria\/summa-en-cies-2024-una-oportunidad-para-intercambiar-experiencias-y-seguir-construyendo-redes-que-promuevan-la-transformacion-de-nuestros-sistemas-educativos\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T20:13:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T23:13:04","slug":"summa-en-cies-2024-una-oportunidad-para-intercambiar-experiencias-y-seguir-construyendo-redes-que-promuevan-la-transformacion-de-nuestros-sistemas-educativos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/summaedu.org\/en\/news\/summa-at-cies-2024-an-opportunity-to-exchange-experiences-and-continue-building-networks-to-promote-the-transformation-of-our-education-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"SUMMA at CIES 2024: an opportunity to exchange experiences and continue building networks to promote the transformation of our education systems"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 68th annual conference of the <\/span>Comparative & International Education Society (CIES),<\/b> was held on March 6 and 7 online, and from March 10 to 14 in Miami, with the them <\/span>“The Power of Protest”<\/b>. It was a great opportunity to share and exchange experiences with researchers, academics, teachers, international organizations, among others, and to continue working collaboratively in the transformation of our educational systems and the construction of more just societies. <\/span><\/p>\n

SUMMA was present during the event with an active participation in different sessions and panels with some of its initiatives and projects, by its executive director, Javier Gonz\u00e1lez; the director of Innovative Policies and Practices, Dante Castillo-Canales; the director of the Regional Center for Knowledge Exchange and Innovation for Latin America and the Caribbean (KIX LAC), Ra\u00fal Chac\u00f3n; and the Country Support Officer and coordinator of KIX Honduras, Rosa Mar\u00eda Moncada. <\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"SUMMA’s activities at CIES began on Sunday, March 10, with a presentation by its executive director, Javier Gonz\u00e1lez, who spoke about the <\/span>RISE Educational Systems Diagnostic<\/span><\/a>, a tool developed by the RISE Programme of the University of Oxford, which identifies strategic priorities for the reform of education systems. Within this framework, SUMMA showed the details of the <\/span>pilot project led in Ecuador. <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

On Monday, March 11, Dante Castillo-Canales and Rosa Mar\u00eda Moncada presented the project <\/span>\u00abScaling and Adapting Teacher Professional Development Approaches in Honduras\u00bb<\/span><\/a> in the framework <\/span>of the session organized by IREX<\/span><\/a> \u00abDesigning Teacher Preparation and Professional Development Systems for Resilience, Sustainability and Scale: The Role of Policy Alignment and Reform\u00bb. The objective of this project was to pilot the adaptation and scaling of Technology-mediated Teacher Professional Development approaches in the Honduran educational system (TPD@scale). SUMMA representatives shared this discussion space with IREX and the Millennium Challenge Corporation. <\/span><\/p>\n

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The KIX LAC hub, which SUMMA leads together with the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), was also present with its experiences. On Wednesday, March 13, KIX LAC Director Ra\u00fal Chac\u00f3n presented “Exchange and Learning Experiences in Latin America and the Caribbean: Countries’ educational needs are central to the KIX LAC Hub”, at the <\/span>panel organized by IDRC <\/span><\/a>“Transforming evidence into action through cross-country knowledge exchange: lessons from the Global Alliance for Knowledge Exchange and Innovation in Education (KIX)”.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"“We are working with governments, civil society, teachers’ unions, academics. We bring them together to support their own education system and facilitate agreements between countries to strengthen their collaboration”, <\/em>he explained.<\/span><\/p>\n

Later in the day, <\/span>a panel was organized by NORRAG<\/span><\/a>, about “The power of contextual knowledge for sector analysis and planning”, in which SUMMA’s director, Javier Gonz\u00e1lez, presented on how to advance educational reforms through the synthesis and mobilization of knowledge and discussed the experience of the KIX LAC Hub in El Salvador, with the country support mechanism<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Afterwards, the Minister of Education of El Salvador, Jos\u00e9 Mauricio Pineda, spoke in depth about the educational reform “My New School” in which SUMMA-KIX LAC provided technical assistance. He explained that the KIX LAC hub country support mechanism “has provided good support, promoting south-to-south cooperation, and bringing in experts who, through evidence, gave us the opportunity to analyze our gaps and challenges”<\/em>. “We have been working with SUMMA for 18 months on technical assistance and more than 3 years with KIX LAC. We have concluded the work, so next Tuesday we will make it public for the institutions and academia”,<\/em> he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"“Expanding the range of evidence from the KIX LAC center: the role of grey literature in improving education policies in Latin America and the Caribbean” was the theme with which SUMMA Director Javier Gonz\u00e1lez and KIX LAC Director Ra\u00fal Chac\u00f3n, accompanied by the Minister of Education of El Salvador, Jos\u00e9 Mauricio Pineda, contributed to the roundtable discussion at the <\/span>session organized by Education.org<\/span><\/a> entitled “Protesting against hegemonic definitions of quality education evidence: the case for a wider range of evidence”. <\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"The event was also a meeting and networking opportunity for representatives of the research teams and members of the <\/span>\u201cEmpowering Teachers\u2019 Initiative\u201d (ETI), <\/span><\/a>the new initiative of the Coalition for Professional Development at Scale, led by SUMMA and FIT-ED, with the support of IDRC. <\/span><\/p>\n

In addition to the session organized by IREX mentioned above, Freda Wolfenden, Country Research Lead at ETI, was part of the panel “Innovations in teacher professional development from the Knowledge and Innovation Exchange (KIX) initiative: research lessons from country experiences”, where she presented <\/span>“A framework for strengthening teacher professional development systems with TIC”.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Drawing on international research and fieldwork findings from GPE KIX’s multi-site empirical research project TPD@Scale, “Adapting and Scaling Up Teacher Professional Development Approaches in Ghana, Honduras, and Uzbekistan”, <\/a>and based on the Coalition’s working paper, “Designing Teaching Professionals”. Development with TIC to support system-wide improvement of education”<\/a>, this framework was developed by international experts, including researchers, practitioners and representatives of national agencies. It is intended for government education policy makers and other key stakeholders working with teacher educators, teachers, teacher representatives and other national education agencies. It could also be used by development partners to diagnose the needs of national TPD systems. It is relevant to all education systems in the Global South.<\/span><\/p>\n

Throughout the week, education experts, including researchers, teachers and activists, participated to reflect on <\/span>how we might engage and think generatively about the histories, curricula, theories, methodologies and pedagogies that guide acts of protest. <\/b>This is in the context of the importance of protest in education throughout history and how it has enabled people facing injustices to generate power through <\/span>collective action. <\/b><\/p>\n

Related content:<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

KIX LAC’s participation in CIES 2024<\/a><\/p>\n

We invite you to learn more about CIES here: <\/i><\/b>https:\/\/conference.cies.us\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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