More than 73 thousand students will benefit. There are winning projects in Los Ríos, Los Lagos and Aysen.
After a rigorous selection among 119 participating initiatives, the eight winning projects of the Collective Effect Fund were announced. This initiative, promoted by the Reimagina Foundation with the support of the BHP Foundation, aims to promote and scale proven educational innovations to drive a transformation in public education at the national level.
The grand finale took place on TVN, an event in which 13 finalist projects took part that successfully passed through the different stages of the process in which 119 initiatives were preselected, for which more than 250 organizations joined.
Ana María Raad, director of the Reimagina Foundation, along with highlighting the call for the fund, expressed her satisfaction with the participation of initiatives from different areas of the country. “We have had the opportunity to observe transformative initiatives that seek to develop and impact the necessary learning in students in the short and long term. That is the purpose of Collective Effect, to contribute to the development and achievement of relevant and comprehensive learning in children and adolescents.”
For her part, Alejandra Garcés, director of the BHP Foundation’s Chile Country Program, highlighted the quality of the projects that were part of the Collective Effect Fund and commented that “this award is the result of a long process that began more than a year ago. , when together with Fundación Reimagina we began to co-design a project to address the challenges of education in Chile with a systemic and collaborative view. The winners of the Collective Effect Fund will not each work on their own, but rather their impact will be enhanced through collective and network work, generating common indicators that contribute to promoting deep and necessary changes.”
Final Pitch and winners
After the deliberation of the Final Pitch, the evaluation committee announced the names of the eight winning projects that will impact and benefit 7,912 teachers and administrators and 73,121 public education students in the country, facilitating their development of skills to creatively address the present challenges and futures.
1.-UnlimitED: Building schools without limits online, whose basis is to increase the fundamental learning of all students in the territory, mainly generating two things. One, networks and two, continuous improvement processes, from Fundación Enseña Chile together with Pulso Escolar (regions of Antofagasta, Valparaíso, O’Higgins, Maule, Araucanía, Los Lagos, Aysén and Magallanes).
2.-TP Educational Bridgeswhich seeks to ensure that technical-professional high schools in rural areas also tend to be community centers, hence the objective of the project is to strengthen them as that axis of social and educational development, of Fundación Grupo 99 together with NGOs Canales and Co Crecer (regions of La Araucanía and Los Ríos).
3.-Learn Project, an initiative that aims to transform schools into the place where students want to be. To this end, skills were developed in teachers so that through an active pedagogy based on Design Thinking and Project-Based Learning, from Fundación Educacional Proyecto Learn with Fundación Ulmo (Los Ríos and Los Lagos regions).
4.-Pioneer Model. Transforming education in the Aconcagua Valleyan initiative that seeks to help students strengthen their learning, but above all their socio-emotional and 21st century skills, so that they can be agents of change, from the Angloamerican Foundation together with Corporación Tu Clase Tu País (Valparaíso Region).
5.-Theater in Education – TELEa project that inserts the subject of performing arts into the school curriculum, complemented with other components that enrich the experience such as the pedagogical outing to the theater, interdisciplinary projects, investigation of the environment, work in a teaching duo, from Fundación Festival Internacional Teatro a Mil with The Scale (Antofagasta, Metropolitana and BioBío regions).
6.-Social-emotional Learning: implementation and evaluationan initiative that has been working for 5 years promoting socio-emotional development with a playful methodology that strengthens links, which has allowed for high satisfaction and perception of impact in more than 160 schools, from the Trabün Foundation with First Impact (Metropolitan, Coquimbo and Bío Bío regions).
7.-Territorial Wellbeing Ecosystemswhose main focus is to strengthen the socio-emotional well-being of children in contexts of vulnerability and multiculturalism in the regions of Ñuble and La Araucanía, by Fundación Kiri in collaboration with Grupo Educativo NeuroUC, Fundación Mustakis and Fundación Impúlsate (regions of La Araucanía and Ñuble).
8.-Astoreca Character Strengths in Patagoniais a proposal for character training for students from pre-kindergarten to 4th grade, educating character through the development of strengths, from the Astoreca Social Foundation with KommPakt, Communication in Education and Cuenca Viva Foundation (Los Lagos and Aysén regions).
Next steps
During the second semester, the eight winners of the Collective Effect Fund will begin acceleration work that will last four months and will have the following focuses: design the collaborative work of the collective impact that they want to build together, understanding that they are individually very powerful projects ; definition of project escalation routes; and in terms of sustainability, generate evidence-based narratives to ensure that “the needle moves” in public education.
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