Several international organizations (1) representing educators working within and with school systems are pleased to offer practice-based advice promoting coherent, sustainable & significant changes to school and other systems. Our collaboration has developed advice for countries, states & provinces, UN agencies, global organizations and others in three areas:

  • Our joint statement, developed in response to the UN Transforming Education Summit, the basis of our advocacy for rebuilding after the Covid 19 pandemic, renewing commitments to inclusive schools and transforming their systems for the future. Visitors to this web site are invited to Endorse the Joint Statement & Review the list of organizations/individuals supporting it. as we;ll as Edit or comment on the accompanying Position Paper

  • Our long term initiative to prepare summaries on the key steps and elements of school and other systems that need to be coherent if systems change is to be sustained. The dialogue emphasizes the complexity and time needed to align the many parts of school and other systems. Review and comment on the discussion paper on systems change Over the several months practitioners, researchers and their organizations are invited to review or prepare brief summaries on the steps and/or the elements of school and other systems. The many types of educators/employees are among the many actors in education ecosystems, so the educator organizations are preparing summaries on the roles of their members. 

  • The caution expressed in our 2022 Joint Statement has proved to be justified, so educator organizations are calling for countries and UN agencies to focus on five milestones that can be achieved in different ways by different countries by 2030. Beginning with an open letter to the UN Secretary-General, the educator organizations will undertake several activities to promote more realistic strategies
    (1) to complete the rebuilding needed after the Covid 19 pandemic,
    (2) help countries to salvage progress towards the SDGs most relevant to them and their stakeholders,position
    (3) continue the specific improvement steps started at and after the education summit within long-term, systems change strategies,
    (4) investing in teachers, other educators & professionals from other sectors who work in and with schools thereby expanding the pathways into the education workforce and
    (5) funding, then requiring other ministries to provide school-based or school-linked services related to their core mandates such as health services/promotion, child protection, civil protection and public safety and more. 
The educator organizations reiterate an d emphasize the reality that schools simply cannot undertake the many equity, health, social and environmental crises & challenges facing children unless their governments truly adopt Whole of Government (WoG) practices that require and strengthen inter-ministry coordination. 
(1) These educator organizations are offering realistic advice to countries, UN agencies and others about improving and reforming school and other systems. They represent education support workers (ESACW-PSI), teachers (EI), principals (ICP), school system administrators (AASA, CASSA), senior school leaders (ASCD-ISTE), counselors (IAC), psychologists (ISPA), nurses (ISNA) and deans of education (GNDE). This is an ad-hoc group of organizations initially formed when Goal 4 (education) of the SDGs was developed in 2015 and several educator groups joined FRESH Partners in submitting a brief to the UNESCO consultation process.  Educator organizations within FRESH subsequently organized a global dialogue through a  series of workshops and a consensus statement on integrating health & school programs within education systems  and has continued as a working group of the FRESH Partnership. 
Navigating this web site
About the joint statement: About summarizing the elements and steps to change school systems  About our advice promoting realistic milestones when renewing the SDGs: 
  • Read our open letter to the UN Secretary General which presents our advice
         - More on the five milestones
         - More on building Whole of Government approaches, practices & mechanisms
  • Read our announcement/news release on that lefter 
  • Read the FRESH progress report on building whole of government approaches & mechanisms 
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