The following is an excerpt from Teacherpreneurs: Innovative Teachers Who Lead But Don't Leave, by Barnett Berry and Ann Byrd, and Alan Wieder. This excerpt focuses on how educators in Finland see ...
“I have been very tired—more tired and confused than I have ever been in my life,” Kristiina Chartouni, a veteran Finnish educator who began teaching American high-school students this autumn, said in ...
Finland’s Pasi Sahlberg is one of the world’s leading experts on school reform and the author of the best-selling “Finnish Lessons: What Can the World Learn About Educational Change in Finland?” says ...
Finland has consistently been ranked the world’s happiest nation, a title it has held for several years running in the UN’s ...
"This is what we do every day," says Kirkkojarvi Comprehensive School principal Kari Louhivuori, "prepare kids for life." Stuart Conway It was the end of term at Kirkkojarvi Comprehensive School in ...
Rhonda Broussard is the founder and president of St. Louis Language Immersion Schools, a charter management organization. In 2014, she traveled to and explored the education systems of Finland and New ...
Sahlberg, who directs Finaldn’s Centre for International Mobility and Cooperation, won the 2013 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Education for the book “Finnish Lessons: What Can the World ...
Concordia Language Villages will offer a Finnish focused music education program for youths June 15-21. Soiva Camp at Salolampi is a partnership between Concordia Language Villages, the Association of ...
Sauli Niiniste takes lessons, regarding the knowledge of Russian as “a matter of politeness” HELSINKI, August 16 (Itar-Tass) — Finnish President Sauli Niiniste takes lessons of the Russian language ...