The Global Reset New opportunities for educating girls
How aspects of home learning during lockdown can be used to enhance the ways in which girls study now they are back in the classroom.
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s well as turning 150 earlier this year, the GDST became a founder member of the International Coalition of Girls’ Schools (ICGS). The ICGS focuses on educating and empowering girls to become ethical, globally minded changemakers, through collaboration between its 225 girls’ schools and professional associations in 13 different countries. Their Global Action Research Collaborative (GARC) encourages current classroom teachers to undertake action research on an issue that will help to improve girls’ education and opportunities. I am one of 17 research fellows from the GDST who attended the ICGS conference in Boston in June as part of the GARC programme. The GARC initiative involves an 18 month training programme which includes regular online meetings about our research projects with the 30 teachers in our cohort from around the world. I also meet up regularly via the internet with my research supervisor, Debbie Hill from Northampton High School for Girls GDST, and a smaller group of teachers based in Bermuda, the USA, Australia and the UK to discuss how our individual projects are going and give each other advice and support. It is really interesting to see how teachers in educational systems in North America and Australia have identified the different challenges that are affecting their students and how they are trying
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Lucy Scovell Head of the Faculty of Humanities, Portsmouth High School GDST
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