Public schools from 14 communes that are part of the Improvement Network A Good Start met again in person in a learning session.
"We wanted to meet again, celebrate our achievements, share our experiences and begin to set our first challenges for the coming year". With this phrase Perla Chávez, director of implementation of the Un Buen Comienzo (UBC) programme of Fundación Educacional Oportunidad explained the objectives of the learning session that brought together the 160 schools and kindergartens that make up the UBC Improvement Network and belong to the O'Higgins and Metropolitan regions.
This network aims to be a space for exchange and collaboration between kindergarten educators and technicians, management teams and school principals in order to enhance the learning of girls and boys in early education. As a result of the pandemic, the network continued to operate virtually, and after almost two years of this process, it will once again hold a face-to-face meeting to evaluate its functioning during this period.
A very important moment of this meeting was related to the analysis and reflection of the data, specifically those that tell us about the functioning of the local networks: "We reviewed the data on how they did with their dynamics in the community meetings to find out if these meetings had a continuous improvement component and also if they were being effective in terms of decision-making", explained Pablo Muñoz, head of the Continuous Improvement and Evaluation area of Fundación Educacional Oportunidad.
A very important aspect of this learning session was that we began to outline the objectives of the work to be carried out next year. "We hope to generate more and better training and meeting spaces to meet the challenges of 2022 in early education, through training, discussions and visits between schools and municipalities, based on certain issues that need to be looked at and improved collectively," explained Carolina Zúñiga, Coordinator of Networks and Supporters of Fundación Educacional Oportunidad.
"Our session had a very important component, which was to celebrate the work that has been done in each commune, especially by the Improvement Teams, who have been the heart that has sustained and mobilised the local networks. We want to thank them for their dedication and all the love they have shown so that, despite the adversities, the children can continue to learn meaningfully," concluded Perla Chávez.
THE COMMUNES THAT MAKE UP THE NETWORK
The Un Buen Comienzo Improvement Network is composed of the communes of Coltauco, Doñihue, Malloa, Machalí, Mostazal, Olivar, Paredones, Pichidegua, Quinta de Tilcoco, Rengo, San Fernando, Chimbarongo and San Vicente in the O'Higgins Region, and Renca in the Metropolitan Region.
Almost a thousand people, including educators and kindergarten technicians, heads of UTP, directors of public schools and heads of DAEM of the municipalities make up this collaborative work network, the only one focused on early education in our country, which exists with the purpose of promoting the continuous development of teaching and management skills in order to sustain school improvement and effectiveness and thus have an impact on the learning of children at the early education level.
