Program

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08:15 - 9:00 Registration

Hosts:
Lyuba Yordanova,
Editor, Capital
Natalia Miteva, 
Program Director,Education and Libraries, America for Bulgaria

9:00 - 9:10 Official Opening
Meglena Kuneva, Minister of Education and Science

9:10 - 10:00
Reinventing the Primary School
Maurice de Hond, Founder, Steve Jobs Schools, Amsterdam

10:00 - 11:00 Ideas from the classrooms - good practice examples
Sevdalina Zafirova, Director of "St Sedmochislenici School", Targovishte: The method "project-based learning"
Dimitrina Dokimova, Geography teacher in High School of Mathematics "Dr Petar Beron", Varna: A Multidisciplinary learning in natural science
Shary Marshall, Director of Teaching & Learning, The Anglo-American School of Sofia - The Innovative Educator

11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 - 12:00
Key Steps to Innovative Education and Why It is So Important To Make Changes to the Educational Systems

Barbara Isaacs, Chief Education Officer, Montessori St. Nicholas Charity

Innovative Education in Bulgaria  - Montessori, short film by Yasen Grigorov, Krasimir Antonov, Desy Stoeva, founder of Montessori Day Nursery (Casa dei bambini), parents and teachers

12:00 - 13:00 School environment changes and how to face them
Lena Parova, Director "St.St. Cyril and Methodius" Primary School, Vetren: How to create a professional learning community
Todorka Rusinova, Director "Svetlina" Primary School - Topolitsa, Aytos: How can every child present themsels and share their talents
Stanimira Paskova, Teacher "Teach for all" in "Vasil Levski" Primary school, Karadzhovo: Empowering the students to be included in the community

13:00 - 14:00 Networking Lunch

14:00 - 14:50
The role of the technology director at the school

Bryan L. Miller, Director Educational Technology, Pine Crest School

14:50 - 15:50 Discussion: How to manage an innovative school
Mitko Kunchev, Director of High School of Mathematics "Baba Tonka", Ruse
Velichka Stoycheva, Director of High School 18 Uilyam Gladston, Sofia
Pavlin Petkov, Director of High School of Mathematics "Dr Petar Beron", Varna

15:50 - 16:15 Coffee Break

16:15 - 17:15 Steps to new educational ecosystem
prof. Tsokov Galin, Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Education at the Plovdiv University "Paisii Hilendarski", The new bulgarian education
Bogdana Hristova, Senior expert in science and ecology, RIE-Vratsa: The innovations in teaching mathematics and natural science that we can offer to Bulgarian 
Daphne van Deursen, Project leader, Jet-Net, Netherlands: Innovations in school by creating a consortium between business, state and educational institutions.

17:15 - 17:30 Closing

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Video presentations of successful schools and educational practices during coffee breaks and lunch


Supporting Program

Workshop 1
9:30 - 10:30

Teach for All
Developing 21st Century Skills in Classrooms - A Teacher's Guide

Workshop 2
10:40 - 11:20
Tools for attractive education
Blagovest Papagalski, technology expert, Center for Creative Learning

Workshop 3
11:30 - 13:00
Cutting-edge tech tools for the classroom
Bryan L. Miller, Director Educational Technology, Pine Crest School

Workshop 4

14:00 - 15:30
How to Apply the Montessori Practice in Our Daily Work in the Kindergarten or School
Barbara Isaacs, Chief Education Officer, Montessori St. Nicholas Charity

Workshop 5
16:00 - 17:30
How Technology Can Be Used Better in Schools
Maurice de Hond, Founder, Steve Jobs Schools, Amsterdam