The Transforming Education Summit mobilized political will and solidarity to transform education. It revitalized national and global efforts to achieve SDG 4 and to reimagine education systems, with consideration given to both present and future demands for the education sector.

One year on, this event provides an opportunity to gather stakeholders to discuss, reflect on and unpack promising practices, transformative shifts and actionable strategies for transforming education systems.

GPE, together with the Cambridge Partnership for Education and Brookings Center for Universal Education, co-host this closed-door side event on the margins of the SDG Summit. It brings together key actors from across the education sector to move the global conversation forward on education system transformation.

Participants include representatives from governments implementing education system reform, CSOs, young people, donors, the private sector, foundations and UN agencies.

In reimagining what education systems should look like, attention should be brought to the fact that education systems are highly complex, and this complexity needs to be recognized during reform processes.

A system transformation approach identifies and addresses the root causes that hinder the delivery of quality learning. Prioritizing bold reforms that accelerate education progress, system transformation has the potential to create large-scale and sustainable change that large numbers of children – including the most marginalized – can benefit from.

The event aims to:

• Reconvene key actors one-year post the Transforming Education Summit to renew momentum and move the conversation forward on education system transformation.
• Discuss what systems transformation means in practice and what concrete actions create change.
• Position education as a key driver of systemic transformation and highlight the links between education, development, and climate change ahead of COP28 and the ReWirED Summit.

Moderator:

• Hon. Dr. David Sengeh, Chief Minister, Sierra Leone

With remarks from:

• Rebecca Winthrop, Director and Senior Fellow, Center for Universal Education at The Brookings Institution
• Jo Bourne, Chief Technical Officer, Global Partnership for Education
• Jane Mann, Managing Director, Cambridge Partnership for Education
• H.E. Farah Sheikh Abdulqadi, Federal Minister of Education, Culture and Higher Education, Federal Republic of Somalia
• H.E. Conrad Sackey, Minister of Basic and Senior Secondary Education, Sierra Leone
• Leonardo Garnier, Special Adviser for the Transforming Education Summit
• Temilade Salami, GPE youth leader

Time: 08:00- 09:30 ET / 12:00- 13:30 GMT / 14:00- 15:30 CET