JOINT EDUCATION

It is often said that there is strength in numbers. Building on this principle, the education task forces; Early Childhood, Primary and Secondary, Special Education, Leadership, and Tertiary joined forces to design and implement the following programs over the past year:

• Fact finding discussions with Jamaican educators- This activity provided an insight into the strengths, challenges, and opportunities for improvement for the Jamaican educators post pandemic. Utilizing the information garnered from the fact-finding discussion and the results from the stakeholders’ survey the goals and objectives for the 2022 academic year were established.

• Professional Development workshops/JAMINARS were held throughout the year to build the capacity of both the Jamaican teacher leaders and administrators

• Education Summit-The 7th Advancement in Education Summit under the theme Meeting the Challenges of Education Today, was held at Marymount College in New York. This in person education summer had participants from Jamaica, Bermuda, and the diaspora.

• Virtual Summer Conference-The second Annual Summer Conference was held August 8-9, 2022, with a focus of continuing the mission of advancing education in achieving Jamaica’s Vision 2030. Under the theme, Pushing Forward with Resilience, Inclusion, Capacity, Equity (R.I.C.E). This two-day conference benefited all educators in Jamaica and provided the opportunity for collaboration with the Jamaica Teachers’ Association, the Early Childhood Commission Council of Community College of Jamaica, Marymount Manhattan College, Catholic College of Mandeville, The Mico University College, and Union of Jamaica Alumni Associations in the development and implementation of the two-day workshop.

As a team, we were able to harness our superpowers to supports all educators to thrive, connect, and unite thus helping to create an empowered team of Jamaican educators