The summit will focus on the critical challenges humanity faces educating people living in under-resourced and under-served regions.
We will consider the role that educational leaders, innovative practitioners and international organizations and companies can play in delivering solutions that work.
What are the best practices of education and learning for the poor that hold the greatest promise for the future?
What are the latest innovations in global education for poor youth and how can they be transferred across national, state, and organizational boundaries?
What impact is technology having on education for the poor and what are the latest technological and sociological innovations that can be transformative for the education of poor youth?
What is the role of the private and public sectors, especially the corporate, for-profit and non-profit sectors, in creating and driving global education for poor youth?
What are the macro-economic elements at play—are the key drivers of literacy and learning growth generally in providing education for the poor?
What are the mental frameworks and values critical for the successful transformation of education for the poor?
2022 Innovations in Education for the Global Village Conference
Keynote Speaker Raj Chetty, William A. Ackman Professor of Economics at Harvard University - Director of Opportunity Insights
November 8, 2022
Hope Collaborative, Sri Sathya Sai University for Human Excellence, Divine Will Foundation, The Clay Center for Young Healthy Minds at MGH with People Shores, Sai Global Federation of Foundations, More
Hope Collaborative, Sri Sathya Sai University for Human Excellence, Divine Will Foundation, Clay Center for Young Healthy Minds, and Society for Science, with People Shores, bring you an inspiring conference on Tuesday, November 8, 2022 from 8:30am to 4:00pm at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. We focus on powerful initiatives in education, global healthcare, and psychological health and wellbeing. We are honoring powerful innovators who deliver on a vision of higher civilization and a better society.
The summit will focus on the critical challenges humanity faces educating people living in under-resourced and under-served regions, and the role that educational leaders, innovative practitioners and international organizations and companies can play in delivering solutions that work. The goal of the 2022 summit is to outline and prioritize key research, best practices to date, and challenges with the intention of driving positive change and effecting transformational change with a solutions roadmap for innovation and impact.
The 2022 summit will lay a foundation for synthesizing and extracting transformational solutions from the large body of research and practice that exists that can be applied to educate the world’s poor. The goal of the 2022 summit is to outline and prioritize key research, best-practices to date, and challenges with the intention of driving positive change and effecting transformational change with a solutions roadmap for innovation and impact.
It is a truism that education is liberating for individuals, and acts as a leveler and equalizer within society. It levels the playing field, helps alleviate economic and social inequities, and brings human beings closer together. Its lack results in lower initial and lifetime earnings, greater risks of unemployment and destitution, and difficulty in adapting to rapidly changing knowledge-based societies. As a result, individuals have fewer opportunities and are less able to participate fully in the civic and democratic activities of modern societies.
The lack of good education also imposes high costs on society. Economies’ capacities to produce, grow and innovate are limited by poorly educated people. Poor educational outcomes damage social cohesion and mobility, and impose higher spending on public health, social support and crime prevention. Conversely, good quality education for all can be a powerful engine for greater opportunity and equality.
Nevertheless, access to education remains unequal. Data from the UN shows that in developing countries, children from poor families are 7 times less likely to finish secondary school than children from rich families. Even in rich countries, 75% of children from poor families complete their secondary education, compared to over 90% from rich families.
The goals of the conference are to have some of the world’s leading educational thinkers, leaders and practitioners present, discuss and debate best-practice and next practice frameworks, models and solutions to the challenges of educating the poor and alleviating educational opportunity and outcome gaps. The speakers and panels will address four key questions framing educational opportunity, practice and outcomes. The ideas, practices and models that emerge from the conference will then be widely disseminated through a conference volume, published papers and funded initiatives in the US, India and other select countries. Subsequent conferences, conclaves and collaborations will embed these and other emergent ideas and practices in a continuing stream of practices, applications, innovations and improvements. There will be a key focus on the values that underlie exceptional educational practice and outcomes.
Keynote Speakers
Raj Chetty
Raj Chetty, the William A. Ackman Professor of Economics at Harvard University and the Director of Opportunity Insights, which uses big data to study the science of economic opportunity, is keynoting Hope Collaborative's November Global Village Summit at Harvard with DWF. Professor Chetty is speaking on "Equality of Opportunity: Reviving the American Dream". Professor Chetty in his work asks the question: How we can give children from all backgrounds better chances of succeeding? Hope is assembling top education experts around the world to help answer that question for youth and teens living in poverty everywhere. Racial disparities in income and other outcomes are among the most visible and persistent features of American society. The sources of these disparities have been studied and debated for decades, with explanations ranging from segregation and discrimination to differences in family structure and genetics. Professor Chetty will discuss how these intergenerational race gaps vary across areas of the U.S., and discuss implications for pathways to reduce racial disparities, and increase educational quality and impact for all.
Session 1: Session 1: From Loss to Hope: Paradoxical Educational Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Keynote Speaker: Fernando Reimers--Ford Foundation Professor of Practice in International Education.
Session 2: Respect, Human Values, and Effective Delivery of Quality Education for People Living in Remote Locations
Keynote Speaker: Sylvia Schmelkes--Professor-Researcher of the Research Institute for the Development of Education in Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City.
Session 3: What impact is technology having on education for the poor and what are the latest technological and sociological innovations that can be transformative for the education of poor youth?
Keynote Speaker: Professor Karthik Muralidharan--Professor of Economics, University of California San Diego and Global Co-chair of education at JPAL. Lead Principal Investigator in India for Research on Improving Systems of Education (RISE) program.
Session 4: The Future of Work Begins in High School: Creating Career Pathways Linking Work and Learning
Keynote Speakers: Robert Schwartz--Senior Advisor to the Harvard Project on Workforce at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy and Nancy Hoffman--Jobs for the Future and co-founder, Pathways to Prosperity Network
Session 5: What is the role of the private and public sectors, especially the corporate, for-profit and non-profit sectors, in creating and driving global education for poor youth?
Keynote Speaker: Bhuvana Santhanam--Director - Global Outreach, Sri Sathya Sai University for Human Excellence
Session 6: Building a Sustainable Culture of Learning in Under-Resourced Areas
Keynote Speaker: Shravya Reddy Nalla--Co-Founder of Presidency Kids Preschool and Director of Creative Learning at Presidency High School
Session 7: One Education, One Family: Integrating Education and Social Impact Work
Keynote Speaker: Sriniket Lakkur--Master of Arts, English Language and Literature/Letters at Sai University For Human Excellence
Session 8: New Models for Lifelong Learning in the Global Digital Economy: The 60 Year Curriculum
Keynote Speaker: Christopher Dede--Senior Research Fellow, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Co-Principal Investigator of the NSF-funded National Artificial Intelligence Institute in Adult Learning & Online Education, and Co-Founder of Silver Lining for Learning Initiative.
Session 9: The Developing Child: Strengthening Systems for Advancing Education
Keynote Speaker: Lisa Gennetian--Professor of Public Policy and the Pritzker Professor of Early Learning Policy Studies at Duke University
Spirit of the Conference: One World, One Family
- Universal Leadership
- Illumination of Self
- Service to Humanity by Ending Poverty
The summit features global practitioners and educators who have demonstrated world-class capacity for delivering on the promise of outstanding global education for all. Panels throughout the day will feature representative practitioners who have distinct and informed world views about each subject under discussion based on their extensive experience and work.
Devotion to high principles and the good of all mankind is a central recipe for creating a new civilization. These qualities drive fulfillment and satisfaction. They bring us to better selves and energies that researchers have shown can create transcendent capacities and outputs.
The best research on team satisfaction demonstrates that groups and teams that develop a commitment to the common good and high principles overwhelmingly succeed in creating fulfilled and and committed people connected to purpose, meaning, and each other. The purpose of this conference is to mutually discover for all in attendance those skills, qualities, and mental frameworks in global education that allow people and organizations to achieve human excellence in supporting youth communities living in poverty.
Human excellence in themselves. In their schools and communities. And in their possibilities as leaders and as a people.
We honor those who have delivered on a promise in their lives of higher civilization through better visions, consequential innovations, uplifting places, and dedicated and continuous service to support and help all mankind.
To these people--and these principles--we dedicate this conference.
Honoring Practitioners in Innovative Education for Communities that Are Under-Resourced
Exemplar VIP Practitioners from Past Conferences
Meet inspiring people who are champions for social missions.
Nancy Lindborg has served since February, 2015, as President of the United States Institute of Peace, an independent institution founded by Congress to provide practical solutions for preventing and resolving violent conflict around the world. She has spent most of her career working in fragile and conflict affected regions around the world. Prior to joining USIP, she served as the assistant administrator for the Bureau for Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance (DCHA) at USAID. Ms. Lindborg led USAID teams focused on building resilience and democracy, managing and mitigating conflict and providing urgent humanitarian assistance. Ms. Lindborg led DCHA teams in response to the ongoing Syria Crisis, the droughts in Sahel and Horn of Africa, the Arab Spring, the Ebola response and numerous other global crises.
Eduardo Ochoa is currently president to California State University Monterey Bay. The university is a national leader in Service Learning which involves students in local community development through community-focused classes and volunteer activities. CSUMB is the only university in the country to be a two-time winner (2006 and 2010) of the United States President’s Award for Higher Education Community Service. It has been among the top five institutions in the country ever since this award was established. During the 2016-17 academic year, 2, 840 students in 118 courses provided 97,220 hours of service in 350 community agencies and schools throughout Santa Cruz, San Benito and Monterey counties. Prior to coming to CSUMB, Dr. Ochoa worked for two years for the Obama Administration as the assistant secretary of postgraduate education. Among the notable programs overseen by the ED’s Office of Postsecondary Education are institutional development programs for minority institutions, teacher development programs, and the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education. As president of CSUMB, one of his key objectives is to make the university a catalyst for cultural and economic development in the region. He is the founder of the Bright Futures Education Partnership, which is a community partnership of diverse members fostering progress in education outcomes for local students, from cradle to career, and improving the pipeline of quality talent within Monterey County, a county with a majority Hispanic population and with low incomes, low employment and stressed livelihoods for substantial numbers of county dwellers. This 2015 partnership has yielded significantly improved results on seven dimensions for large numbers of young children and students, transforming their lives, The seven metrics and progress on these metrics can be seen at https://brightfuturesmc.org/en/7-community-goals.
Rev. Dr. Raymond Rivera has served, as pastor, preacher, denominational executive, organization founder, and community builder. In the late-1960s through the 1970s, Rev. Dr. Raymond Rivera was Co-Founder and Chairperson of the Sunset Park Re-development Housing Initiatives in Brooklyn. He was Community Coordinator of the Lutheran Medical Center and developed community outreach programs for clergy and community-based organizations. From 1975 to 1984, he was National Executive for the Hispanic Council of the Reformed Church in America. In 1992, he founded the Latino Pastoral Action Center (LPAC), which started as a division of the Manhattan-based NYC Mission Society, the NYC’s oldest and largest social service agency. His vision was to develop an organization that dealt with social justice issues from a holistic perspective. In the mid-1980s through the early 1990s, he worked as an educational advocate and trainer in School Districts No.1 and No. 4 in Manhattan, empowering parents to become partners in the educational process. As a result, parents were elected to school boards, school-based management teams, and other policy committees within educational systems. In 1999, after years as a public education reformer, Rev. Dr. Rivera led a team of community and education leaders to establish the Family Life Academy Charter School.
Mr. C Sreenivas (M Com & M Phil) is a dynamic social worker in Healthcare and Human Development, and for over 40 years has been instrumental in setting up and managing Sri Sathya Sai Hospitals in India. Most recently, he has been a driving force behind the two Sri Sathya Sai Sanjaveeni hospitals which focus on pediatric cardiology. This system has already provided over 5000 corrective open-heart surgeries for children with genetic heart defects and is also providing training and research in this area. A third hospital is set to be opened later this year with a fourth following in 2019. All services in this hospital are done completely free of cost.
Steve Stirling, Chief Executive Officer and President of MAP International. Since 1954, MAP International has provided life-changing medicine and health supplies to people living in resource-poor communities around the world. Recognized for its efficiency and stewardship, MAP International serves people in despair following disasters and those in need of hope who lack access to health supplies. Mr. Stirling is committed to helping disabled children in developing countries. His commitment springs from his own life story as a child who was abandoned at an orphanage when he contracted polio as a young child, in South Korea.
Graduate Student Participation
The conference will also feature graduate students and youth education advocates from leading youth education and development programs to participate in the day, and discuss their process in becoming impactful, connected youth advocates and development implementors.
We are broadcasting leading youth advocates from The Bay Area, The Bronx New York, India, Mexico and several other locations doing powerful work.
We expect participants from leading organizations such as Hope Collaborative, The Boys and Girls Clubs, Friends of the Children, Sai Ashwira, The Presidency School, Rancho Cielo and many more.
World-Renowned Speakers from Past Conferences
Keynote Speaker:
Sanjit “Bunker” Roy is the founder of Barefoot College in 1972, a solar-powered college for the poor. Roy describes the Barefoot College as “The only college where the teacher is the learner, and the learner is the teacher."
(Photo: F. Voggeneder)
Keynote Speaker:
Sam Vaghar, Executive Director and Co-founder of Millennium Campus Network, a global student network addressing humanity’s greatest challenges. He is a social entrepreneur committed to helping young leaders find their voice and own their power for social impact. Sam’s deeply held belief in youth leadership is informed by programs which have engaged students from 300 universities worldwide. Under Sam’s leadership, the network convenes and trains over 1,000 campus leaders annually through its conference, Fellowship, and campaigns.
Seeds of Entrepreneurship
Global education spreads the seeds of successful entrepreneurship and impact, so that more leaders and social entrepreneurs can better help society solve its mission critical problems. One focus of the conference is to present models of successful education implementation around the world and across borders.
The event will be held online and at Harvard University, in Cambridge, MA on Tuesday November 8, 2022 from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm and will feature the work and approaches of some of the region and globe’s most effective academics, social venture leaders, and entrepreneurs. We will honor the community organizations who have developed innovative partnership models that support and inspire the kind of innovative education leadership approaches to take on the toughest problems.
The founders and organizers believe that advancements in human capabilities as diverse as revolutionary new technologies, interconnected communications, big data tracking and use, advanced delivery systems, micro storage technologies, and more can combine to support change and solutions at increasing speed. Time is of the essence as the world reels from the effects of chronic poverty, global climate change, political instability, and resource shortages.
Stories of Courage
Social Change at Scale in Education depends on exemplar corporations that leverage their success towards social innovation, philanthropy, and sustainability. We have worked with executives from leading firms to feature stories of global leaders from segment leaders including companies such as Johnson and Johnson, Unilever, State Street Bank, and IBM.
Our annual event brings together capable talent and organizations who join a community of learning that continues throughout the year.
Partnerships
We partner with leading social mission organizations, corporations that have a social mission focus, outstanding community leaders with a demonstrated track record driving change, and successful social venture entrepreneurs. Two years ago, outstanding social mission leaders joined corporations such State Street Bank and IBM—and social mission organizations such as Science for Society and People’s Showers--for an inspired and informative event.
Research
Leading research from Bain Capital’s The Bridgespan Group called "Designing for Transformative Scale" suggests that scalable, cost-efficient solutions delivered over global platforms are the critical missing element to creating a new generation of widespread social solutions and change that is durable and lasting. Here are several core learnings from the authors Jeri Eckhart-Queenan, Abe Grindle, Jacquelyn Hadley and Roger Thompson.
“Regardless of the chosen strategy, several principles shape how an organization’s leaders think and act in pursuit of their chosen mission. Three stand out as indispensable for laying the groundwork for transformative scale: listening carefully to beneficiaries, obsessing over affordability, and building a scalable operating model.”
Sri Sathya Sai Baba, a legendary holy man in India who built programs that have delivered free medical and education solutions to millions of people living in poverty, said:
"The whole capitalistic structure, the responsibility towards other people in society, has gone missing, which was there initially."
Muhammad Yunus, the Nobel Laureate whose experiments in new forms of social mission capitalism have brought bold changes to the lives of the poor, said:
"Unprecedented technological capabilities combined with unlimited human creativity have given us tremendous power to take on intractable problems like poverty, unemployment, disease, and environmental degradation. Our challenge is to translate this extraordinary potential into meaningful change.”
Believing in the Gifts of Humankind
We have created a valuable annual event that brings together capable talent and organizations who join a community of learning that continues throughout the year on an Internet platform that we are developing.
The goals and outputs of the day are the following:
- Broadcast and Advance the academic models and learnings of the conference
- Honor and Model human excellence in service to society
- Connect and Work as a collaborative to create lasting partnerships between academics and social entrepreneurs
- Publish a journal/book codifying the days research and learning.
- Provide social mission organizations access to research, frameworks, talent, and inspiring stories of leadership and change.
Conference Planning Committee Co-Chairs
Supporters
Hope Collaborative, Sri Sathya Sai Center for Human Excellence, Divine Will Foundation, The Clay Center for Young Healthy Minds at MGH with People Shores, Sai Global Federation of Foundations, More
To Learn More
Contact:
MJ Soriano, Manager of Communications and Special Projects, Hope Collaborative, 14 Clark Street, Belmont, Massachusetts, 02478 * mj@leaderjam.com
Kevin Sheehan, Executive Director and Co-Founder, Hope Collaborative KSheehan@HopeCollaborative.com * 617-610-8804
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