From September 29 to October 3, some of the world’s brightest minds descended on Waterloo, Ontario, to discuss the future of high school education.
Equinox Summit: Learning 2030, a world-class event presented by the Waterloo Global Science Initiative, explored the challenges and opportunities facing high school education, and captured delegates’ imaginations by laying out a new way forward for high school teaching and learning, focusing on linking pedagogical innovation with the needs of society.
Itself a partnership of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics and the University of Waterloo, the non-profit Waterloo Global Science Initiative is co-chaired by Perimeter executive head Neil Turok and University of Waterloo President Hamdullahpur, and mandated to “promote dialogue around complex global issues and catalyze the long-range thinking necessary to advance ideas, opportunities and strategies for a secure and sustainable world.”
It did precisely that when, on the morning of Thursday, October 3, it issued the official end-of-summit Communique, which outlined the key findings of the Learning 2030 summit. The Communique will inform the development of the Equinox Blueprint: Learning 2030, a document that will iterate further on the ideas captured in the Communique, providing a roadmap for action on education relevant to policymakers, thought leaders, teachers and students around the world.
Equinox Blueprint: Learning 2030 will be released in 2014.
Read President Hamdullahpur and Dr. Turok’s pre-summit article published by the Globe & Mail, How to stop high school from stifling creativity.
From left to right:
Dr. Arthur Carty (Secretary-Treasurer WGSI Board of Directors, Executive Director of the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology)
Dr. Tom Brzustowski (WGSI Board of Directors, Chair of the Board of the Institute for Quantum Computing)
Dr. Feridun Hamdullahpur (Vice-Chair WGSI Board of Directors , President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Waterloo)
Dr. Neil Turok (Chair WGSI Board of Directors , Director of Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)
Mr. Michael Duschenes (WGSI Board of Directors, Chief Operating Officer of Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)
From left to right:
Dr. Michael Brooks (Learning 2030 Summit Curator)
Dr. Arthur Carty (WGSI Board of Directors Secretary-Treasurer, Executive Director of the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology)
Dr. Tom Brzustowski (WGSI Board of Directors, Chair of the Board of the Institute for Quantum Computing)
Dr. Feridun Hamdullahpur (WGSI Board of Directors Vice-Chair, President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Waterloo)
Dr. Neil Turok (WGSI Board of Directors Chair, Director of Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)
Mr. Michael Duschenes (WGSI Board of DIrectors, Chief Operating Officer of Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)
Ms. Julie Wright (WGSI General Manager)