REFUGEE EDUCATOR ACADEMY

Why a Refugee Educator Academy?

With more than 65 million forcibly displaced people in the world, the well-being of refugees has taken on crisis proportions. Failure to offer refugees opportunities to learn and develop not only poses an immediate threat to their well-being and health; it also threatens personal, national, and international security in the long term. We are called upon as a global community to attend to the basic human rights of each person and to offer the promise of a better tomorrow and a brighter future to each of our children, neighbors, and colleagues. Yet, there is a staggering shortage of people qualified to teach and support the complex needs of the 65 million displaced people worldwide. Sustained professional learning opportunities and supportive communities are essential to build the dynamic, informed, skilled teaching workforce required to meet current teaching and learning demands.

Supporting practice mastery and developing teacher leaders

There is an abundance of quality content, including for example on minimum standards for child protection, teacher training packs, social emotional learning, and other critical content areas. We seek to build upon this knowledge base, making existing content more widely available in measured, digestible chunks which educators can instantly make use of in their unique contexts. By placing participants at the center and building out from their goals, we aim to develop foundational skills, shared language, immediately useful lessons and materials, and learning design (or instructional) practice mastery. We cultivate teacher leadership and lift educators’ voices to advocate for joyful and sustainable learning environments for all teachers and students.