FRESH Partner & Other Webinars & Web Meetings
FRESH Partners and other organizations often organize webinars and open web meetings as part of our activities. This page consolidates the web events into a convenient schedule and archive.
Come back to this page often to find the latest recordings and updated schedule. Be sure to click on the "Participants Link" noted for each session as the URL may vary depending on the organizer/host for that session.
Upcoming Webinars/Web Meetings
FRESH Partners and other organizations often organize webinars and open web meetings as part of our activities. This page consolidates the web events into a convenient schedule and archive.
Come back to this page often to find the latest recordings and updated schedule. Be sure to click on the "Participants Link" noted for each session as the URL may vary depending on the organizer/host for that session.
Upcoming Webinars/Web Meetings
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Dates for this series of webinars will be posted here soon
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Capacity-Building & Whole of Government (WoG) Practices, Strategies & Structures to Scale up, Sustain and Coordinate Frameworks using the School as a Hub
Part One: Sustaining & Scaling Up Inter-Ministry Coordination (IC) Frameworks This series of webinars will develop and share knowledge about building capacities within the many sector-wide multi-component approaches and issue-specific multi-intervention programs that implement similar (but different) Intersectoral Policy-Program Coordination Frameworks (IPPCFs) which use the schools and school systems as a hub for intersectoral coordination. The webinars will be hosted by the FRESH Partnership in cooperation with several organizations that lead the various school-based or school-linked frameworks. Each session will be led by organizations that implement or promote a framework. The webinars will be held every two weeks (beginning in the Spring of 2025) and posted on the FRESH web site as well as others. See more information on this series. Part Two: Clarifing and Applying Whole of Government (WoG) Approaches This series of webinars will call upon a variety of UN agencies, global organizations and experts to provide a set of terms to the over-lapping discussions of concepts such as intersectoral cooperation, inter-ministry coordination, whole of society, whole of government, and others which are used interchangeably. The clartifications are intencded to move the discussions toward contextually relevant, epplications, examples and blue-prints proviiding insights and ideas. The series will include experts, policy-makwers and practitioners working WoG approaches around the world. See more information on this series of webinars. |
To access this webinar, just click on this Participants Link a few minutes before the start of the session. This is a Zoom meeting:
Meeting ID: 836 6528 2006 Passcode: 745888 |
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Creating a Research & Policy Agenda for Health & Life Skills Education as a Core Subject in Schools
Most research and development work in H&LS education has been focused on specific topics…often ignoring or even competing with the need for a core subject/home for instruction about all health, personal and social development. The generic skills, essential knowledge and critical attitudes to guide curriculum scope, sequence & design in different contexts are often poorly described or out of date. We do not know how much time is required and delivered for H&LS instruction overall or for specific topics. We don't know which curriculum structures (H, H&PE, H&LS, etc.) are being used and which are best for different purposes and different contexts. Key concepts such as life skills, social & emotional learning, health literacy, global citizenship, and the health impacts of climate change are absent, vaguely defined and, consequently, hard to teach or measure. A FRESH Working Group has published several working papers describing the scope, instructional time, alignment with core student competencies and other basic aspects which have not been covered in narrowly focused topic focused research and by the UN monitoring of Target 4.7.1 of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The UNICEF-UNESCO-ISHN-SFU Fact-Finding Survey and Policy/Curriculum Document Analysis will report on the status of H&LS curricula and extended education activities in countries. The project also has curriculum documents from most jurisdictions. A WERA International Research Network will lead the next steps in facilitating a research/policy agenda. This first session in a series of research-oriented web meetings that will continue the process of developing a research & knowledge development agenda. |
To access this webinar, just click on this Participants Link a few minutes before the start of the session. This is a Zoom meeting:
Meeting ID: 879 2659 0757 Passcode: 904953 |
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20 June, 2024
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Igniting Lifelong Learning: SEL & Academic Integration (Three-Part Series)
This three-part webinar series will explore the research, practices, and policy conditions that promote SEL and academic integration. Through 60-minute thought leadership conversations, we aim to share expertise that can strengthen your work, encourage new approaches, and leave you curious to learn more. |
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03 October 2023
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An Open Web Meeting of FRESH Partners & Others Concerned with Education for Health & Well-Being
This framework, being considered at the November UNESCO General Conference, will be the basis for UNESCO monitoring and promotion of education sector policies and programs. To the dismay of many, education for Health & Well-Being (often called Health & Life Skills or Personal, Social & Health education) has been left off the extensive list of recommended core subjects that includes physical education, history, science, math, geography, reading, languages the arts, media literacy and others. Given that thousands of unnecessary deaths occurred during the Covid 19 pandemic due to vaccine ignorance, poor skills in understanding health information and a misconception that the health of others is not a concern, it is tragic that UNESCO could be continuing to ignore this critical subject for students. This open web meeting will discuss how a change in the text of the UNESCO Recommendation or an interpretation/understanding of other parts of the document (See paragraphs 10e and 49) be used to ensure that HWB curricula are included in any subsequent UNESCO guidance or monitoring activities. Participants will then discuss a last minute coordinated lobbying effort to inform country delegates to UNESCO and other influential organizations. This could include an open letter to the UNESCO DG and letters sent to UNESCO Permanent Representatives and/or UNESCO Commissions in several countries IThe second part of the web meeting will intrioduce the Joint statement on transforming education & other systems and discus the proposed FRESH Work Plan for 2023-24. The work plan includes
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Click here to access the webinar recording and presentation slides
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07 June, 2022
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The UN Transforming Education Summit: Update and How to Engage
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17 May, 2022
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Covid & Schools: A Post-mortem & Development of a Framework (Multi-Intervention Program) To Prevent/Manage Infectious Disease Outbreaks
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