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2102 Education Minnesota Convention Minnesota Guild hosts P. Sahlberg In an effort to encourage Minnesota teachers to lead and propose, the Minnesota Guild hosted Pasi Sahlberg as the Guild keynote speaker. Pasi recent publication, Finnish Lessons: What can the world learn about educational change in Finland, has received acclaim and his work as the Director General at CIMO (Centre for International Mobility and Cooperation) and work with the OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) provided a global perspective of teaching as a profession.
For the past decade, 15-year-old Finnish students have consistently been at or near the top of all the nations tested in reading, mathematics, and science‌
Find out how Finnish teachers have taken control of their profession and made their schools among the best in the world.
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How did Finnish teachers make their schools the best in the world?
Pasi Sahlberg is the Director General of the Centre
Get the answers from Pasi Sahlberg, an expert on the Finnish educational system and leading critic of test-based accountability measures.
for International Mobility and Cooperation in Helsinki, Finland. He has worked as a teacher, teacher-educator, policy advisor and director in Finland and served the World Bank (Washington, DC) and the European Commission (Torino, Italy) as an education expert. His new book is Finnish Lessons: What can the world learn about educational change in Finland.
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See his blog at http://PASISAHLBERG.com
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Meet Pasi Sahlberg RSVP: http://is.gd/meetpasi Minnesota History Center 345 W Kellogg Blvd. Saint Paul 55102 Hosted by The Minnesota Guild of Public Charter Schools—an authorizer of innovative, teacher-led Charter Schools. Created by the members of the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers, Local 59 with support from the AFT Innovation Fund.