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School Closures and Regional Policies to Mitigate Learning Loss due to COVID-19: A Focus on the Asia-Pacific Year of publication: 2021 Corporate author: UNESCO Institute for Statistic (UIS) Global school closures as a result of COVID-19 have caused learning losses for millions of children despite efforts to deploy remote learning options. Greater economic insecurity among families may also affect school enrolment as many struggle to pay school fees, or require children to work to supplement family income. Ultimately, this will lead to rising dropout rates, estimated to be as much as 4% in a region where 128 million children and young people were already out of school before COVID-19. The largest number of learners at risk reside in South and West Asia.Together, the education and economic fallout from the pandemic threaten progress toward the Sustainable Development Goal for education (SDG 4). Even prior to the COVID-19 disruptions, progress towards SDG 4 was lagging in many countries in the Asia-Pacific and without significant contributions to education finance, the pandemic threatens to push the region even further behind.This report breaks down the effects of school closures. It considers, for example, how many schools were closed, and when, across the Asia-Pacific, and the effects on different levels of education from early childhood education, through to primary and secondary school. The report analyses country efforts to implement remote learning, and strategies to mitigate learning losses as the proportion of students expected to fall below minimum proficiency levels is expected to rise.To achieve SDG 4, all children and young people, and especially those in marginalized groups, need support to get the education they need and deserve. 
Global Citizenship Education and the Police: An Opportunity For Partnership? Year of publication: 2021 Author: Robin Young Corporate author: Bridge 47 This publication aims to provide some reflective questions and practicalities to consider before embarking on a partnership with the police sector and to contribute to a wider reflection, dialogue and knowledge sharing within the GCE sector globally about the opportunities and challenges for advancing the mission of GCE through engagement with the police sector. 
Teaching Students How to Learn: Setting the Stage for Lifelong Learning (Educational Practices Series No. 33) Year of publication: 2021 Author: Stella Vosniadou | Michael J. Lawson | Helen Stephenson | Erin Bodner Corporate author: UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE) | International Academy of Education In this Teaching How to Learn booklet, teachers can find information about some of the cognitive, metacognitive, emotional, and motivational capabilities that characterise self-regulated learners, and some of the actions that teachers can take to promote self-regulated learning in their students. These include giving students time to engage in constructive tasks independently or in collaboration with their peers and providing them with the knowledge and strategies that they can use to manage their learning and control their motivation and emotions while they complete these tasks successfully. 
[Summary] Transforming Education in Africa: An Evidence-Based Overview and Recommendations for Long-Term Improvements Year of publication: 2021 Author: Nicolas Reuge | Lukman Olawale Jaji | Nicholas Ouma | Adoumtar Noubatour | Hambani Masheleni | Noguebzanga Jean Luc Yameogo | Achila Imchen | Alassane Ouedraogo | Beifith Kouak Tiyab | Yacouba Djibo Abdou | Erin Euiryeong Jeong Corporate author: United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) | African Union Commission This report is the result of a successful collaboration between UNICEF and the African Union Commission. The report intends to contribute to the facilitation of high-level policy discussions between national education authorities, regional and continental bodies on possible strategic shifts and interventions to boost access to education and improve the quality of teaching and learning in Africa. The report provides evidence-based analysis of the situation of education in Africa while putting into perspective the Sustainable Development Goals and the objectives of the Continental Education Strategy for Africa (CESA 16–25) in line with the African Union Agenda 2063. It highlights the progress made in the continent’s education sector over the past decade (2010–2020) while pointing out the challenges that remain, particularly in the area of equity. 
Preventing GBV: A Family Responsibility! Corporate author: Ministry of National Education of Colombia This infographic explains about what happens with gender-based violence, define it and explain what to do when it occurs. This infographic is intended to make the family aware of their role within this phenomenon and what the role they play in it. 
AI in Education: Change at the Speed of Learning Year of publication: 2020 Author: Steven Duggan Corporate author: UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education (IITE) The policy brief “AI in Education: Change at the Speed of Learning” published by the UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education (UNESCO IITE) opens a new series of publications “Digital Transformation of Education”. The new publication describes the advancements in technology, including data, analytics and personalized learning, Artificial Intelligence (AI), cloud computing and machine learning, and explores the promises of AI for students, teachers, school leaders, parents and education administrators. The publication also highlights the ethical aspects of AI implementation and challenges that it might bring. 
Empowering Learners in a Warming World: A Climate Change Inquiry Guide for Secondary Educators Year of publication: 2020 Author: Ellen Field | Jennifer Stevens | Karen Acton Corporate author: Learning for a Sustainable Future (LSF) The purpose of this guide is to present opportunities to evolve students’ understanding of the climate and climate change, assess the risks and opportunities to mitigate and adapt to the changing climate, unpack ethical dimensions, and honour emotions that are part of the process of coming to understand the complexity and urgency of the issue.Transformative teaching strategies used throughout this guide are important to tackling complex problems like climate change. These strategies often begin with the understanding and experiences that students bring with them. Educators, who themselves are grappling with climate change issues, take the role of facilitators and co-learners as the class works together to learn, critically reflect, and take action.Most importantly, this guide aims to engage students in contributing to solutions in their schools, communities and homes. It aims to connect educators to instructional strategies that allow for students’ perspectives and voice, currently available climate change science and research, teacher resources and activities, datasets, and action solutions. 
Educate to Feel Year of publication: 2021 Corporate author: BBVA Aprendemos Juntos Psychologist Begoña Ibarrola talks in this video about the importance of teaching about emotions. She argues that stories are a powerful tool for bonding and teaching emotional intelligence. 
Distance Learning: A Guide to Playful Distance Learning – Online and Offline Year of publication: 2020 Corporate author: LEGO Foundation The LEGO Foundation Distance Learning Guide offers ideas, evidence and links to useful resources and learning communities, to help you make children’s distance learning more playful, engaging, joyful and effective, whether children are learning online or offline. 
Educating Students to Improve the World Year of publication: 2021 Author: Fernando Reimers Corporate author: UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE) This book highlights the key role of global citizenship education to prepare learners for a rapidly changing world. In a probing and visionary analysis of the field of global education Fernando Reimers explains how to lead the transformation of schools and school systems in order to more effectively prepare students to address today’s most urgent challenges and to invent a better future. It discusses several global citizenship curricula that have been adopted by schools and school networks, and ties them into an approach to lead school change into the uncharted territory of the future.