Interdisciplinary STEM Learning
A program that integrates science, technology, engineering, and math to solve real-world problems, while promoting inclusive participation and community engagement.
Whole-School Equity Approach
The program operates through a group of teachers who study and develop practices to promote equity around a selected school-related issue, working to remove barriers and utilizing a range of tools developed within the program. These actions aim to foster participation and give space and voice to the diverse opinions, identities, and cultures within the entire school community, and include ongoing reflection to improve the practices as they’re being implemented.
Green Learning Spaces
The program aims to transform the schoolyard into a green, educational space that enables meaningful outdoor learning tailored to the diverse needs of all students—across a wide range of subjects and age groups. It enhances the school climate, fosters safe emotional development, a sense of self-worth and capability, and cultivates a feeling of belonging and responsibility toward the surrounding community, as well as a deeper connection to nature and the environment.
A National Initiative
for Systemic Change
A program that integrates science, technology, engineering, and math to solve real-world problems, while promoting inclusive participation and community engagement.
Equity in Education
in a Changing Reality
In a world shaped by rapid technological advancements and shifting social, environmental, and economic changes, success and children's ability to thrive depends on initiative, agency, co-agency, critical thinking, self-expression, and the ability to reflect and adapt. These 21st-century skills can only flourish in an educational environment that is fair, inclusive, and empowering.
Equity in education means creating learning spaces where every student feels safe to explore, question, express themselves, and see their identity as relevant to the learning process. It means recognizing students’ diverse backgrounds—socioeconomic status, gender, culture, origin, or disability—not as barriers, but as assets that enrich learning.
A fair learning environment is built on trust, empathy, and transparency. It values diversity, adapts to students’ needs, e
nsures access to essential resources, and sets high expectations for all—so that no student internalizes a sense of inadequacy.
A fair educational environment encourages the development of skills and a proactive attitude necessary for the success of students and educational teams in a changing reality.
Equity as a Path to Opportunity
Equity is advanced through innovative teaching, learning, and assessment methods that are skill-based and inclusive. These approaches offer meaningful opportunities for students who may have been marginalized by traditional education systems. They allow all learners to participate and thrive—without being labeled or needing special accommodations.
Equity Through Diverse Teaching Methods
Skill-based teaching–learning–assessment methods that use diverse and relevant approaches and settings offer an opportunity for students who were not served well by traditional methods—methods that lacked significance for them, did not support them, and even led to their exclusion. In such learning environments, they can participate, express themselves and their abilities, without being labeled or needing special accommodations.
Fostering Equity to Prevent Inequality Expansion
While equity in education is always essential, the many changes—especially the rapid technological shifts—can accelerate the widening of gaps between social groups.
Many students, especially those from underserved communities, lack access to the resources and knowledge needed to seize new opportunities. This is already reflected in international assessments, which highlight growing disparities in educational outcomes.
The changing reality therefore presents an opportunity and highlights the importance of promoting a fair educational environment—one in which there is awareness and active effort to remove structural, systemic, and infrastructural barriers that create inequity and hinder skill acquisition. These barriers, both visible and hidden, prevent children from realizing their rights and accessing the opportunities around them. Barriers may include lack of access to information or resources, or misunderstanding of rules. They are often connected to biases and stigmas, and can be pedagogical, professional, or structural in nature. Removing barriers becomes possible when we are aware of them and interpret behavior within its context.
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