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Ana Florez: Ensuring That All Children Can Fulfill Their Leadership Potential

Apr 27, 2023 Posted by: George Romar Ana Florez,  DC,  SDG 1,  SDG 10,  SDG 13,  SDG 17,  SDG 4,  SDG 5,  SDG 8,  USA,  Washington
Ana Florez: Ensuring That All Children Can Fulfill Their Leadership Potential
Ana: Thanks for having me, Spiffy! Teach For All is a global network of 60 independent partner organizations and a global organization that works to accelerate the progress of the network. Each partner recruits and develops promising future leaders to teach millions of students for two years in their nations’ under-resourced schools and communities and to work with others, inside and outside of education, to ensure all children are able to fulfill their potential, despite obstacles like poverty, hunger, discrimination, and trauma. 

Rafael Machiaverni: Improving Educational Attainment for Millions of Brazilian Students

Apr 25, 2023 Posted by: George Romar Brazil,  Rafael Machiaverni,  São Paulo,  SDG 1,  SDG 10,  SDG 2,  SDG 3,  SDG 4,  SDG 5,  SDG 8
Rafael Machiaverni: Improving Educational Attainment for Millions of Brazilian Students

Rafael: Glad to be with you, Spiffy! At Parceiros da Educação, our main goal is to increase the learning levels within the public educational system of the State of São Paulo to the highest in Latin America by 2040. Our challenges include the current learning levels—which are low in Brazil as a whole: only 10% of Brazilian students leave K-12 schools with adequate proficiency in math, for example—and the size of the São Paulo network, which has more than 5.6 million students.

Henry Donahue: Helping Communities Reach Their Full Potential through Music

Apr 21, 2023 Posted by: George Romar Henry Donahue,  New York,  NY,  SDG 10,  SDG 11,  SDG 3,  SDG 4,  SDG 8,  USA
Henry Donahue: Helping Communities Reach Their Full Potential through Music

Henry: Glad to be with you, Spiffy! Save The Music's mission is helping students, schools, and communities reach their full potential through the power of making music. Working with public schools across the US, we donate musical instruments, teacher training, and technology to jump start hundreds of new school music programs each year. We know from 25 years of experience across thousands of schools that music helps young people feel better and do better in school and in life!