KED Talk

Provide students with access to a quality education through high-dosage tutoring, envisioning an America where every child has the support of a tutor to enable them to realize their full human potential. Meet the GO Tutor Corps, where lives are changed, and communities are served. Hear in this KED Talk episode how Michael Duffy, President of the GO Foundation, and Elie Bilmes, Chief Program Office...

Social Emotional Learning, or SEL, is not only a cornerstone of human capital but also a driver of inclusive wealth and societal well-being. And thus stands for enormous transformative potential. Join us in this KED Talk as we delve into the profound link between SEL and the concept of inclusive wealth. And hear how personal education can stimulate essential skills to create peaceful and sustainab...

You could say they are two sides of the same coin. Complementary visions that overlap in the way they look at the education of young people. ‘See the Good’, developed by Dr. Kaisa Vuorinen from the University of Helsinki. And Kunskapsskolan Education, the personalized education approach developed in Sweden. Both focus on personal strengths and socio-emotional skills, with the ambition to create a...

Kunskapsskolan education can be found all over the world. With ties across borders and contact between educators and students alike. KED Talk wants to build on that network, by creating a number of country portraits. In earlier episodes we travelled to India, Saudi Arabia, The Netherlands, the UK and the US. But in this KED Talk we return to where is has all started: Sweden.  Not solely to revisit...

What if schools wanted to support students to develop a sense of purpose, grow holistically, make a positive change in their community, explore their identity, curiosities, and passions and set goals and make choices about their learning? Well, you create a new school offering students personalized education based on the Kunskapsskolan model. And that is exactly what Katie Hahn and DJ Hartigan hav...

Kunskapsskolan education can be found all over the world. With ties across borders and contact between educators and students alike. KED Talk wants to build on that network, by creating a number of country portraits. In earlier episodes we travelled to India, Saudi Arabia, and The Netherlands. In this KED Talk we visit the UK. Or more specific: we visit Shevington High School in Wigan. Where Headt...

In an earlier KED Talk episode, we zoomed in on 10 years of remarkable Kunskapsskolan development in India. After that, our KED Talk journey across the world brought us to Saudi Arabia. For the third episode in this series, we travel to The Netherlands. A small country on the map near the North Sea, where over the last eight years a very enthusiastic Kunskapsskolan community has emerged. Listen to...

Kunskapsskolan education can be found all over the world. With ties across borders and contact between educators and students alike. KED Talk wants to build on that network, by creating a number of country portraits.  Before the summer break we had a close look into Kunskapsskolan India. In this episode, we shift our focus to Kunskapsskolan Saudi Arabia. To Nün Academy in Jeddah, to be exact. A sc...

‘How do we make sure that every human being gets access to good education’? ‘How do we give all humans a better start in life’? Fundamental questions that have driven Peje Emilsson - the educational visionary behind and founding father of Kunskapsskolan education – throughout his life. Being a successful serial entrepreneur at the same time seeking answers to the things that really matter.  In thi...

Kunskapsskolan India celebrates its tenth birthday. Having empowered many thousands of students with the knowledge and skills to meet the complex demands of a modern society in four schools in Gurgaon, Bengaluru, and Lucknow.  With the KED model being vastly different from the traditional educational approach in India.  In this KED Talk two educators who were part and parcel of the last ten years...

Kunskapsskolan not only has an established educational model and elaborate quality management system. It also nurtures educational science, advised by a independent Scientific Board. In this KED Talk we hear from two distinguished members of this board - Anette Olin and Petri Partanen. How does the Board operate? What challenges do they see? We find out in an in-depth conversation, together with K...

Kunskapsskolan education is a global affair. With a vibrant community of professionals exchanging knowledge, experience and development on a daily basis. In this KED Talk we take a deep dive into this international network. How does it work, what does it take to develop, what added values are achieved. We explore this with two Kunskapsskolan specialists from Stockholm - Kenneth Nyman, Director Int...

India is a key partner in the world of Kunskapsskolan education. Since 2013 empowering many thousands of students with the knowledge and skills to meet the complex demands of a modern society as responsible individuals. But the presence of Kunskapsskolan in India is largely due to the vision and initiative of one man: Kunal Bhadoo. More than ten years ago, he saw the necessity and possibilities fo...

This KED Talk is about educational quality. With two very special guests: Kenneth Nyman and Christian Wetell, respectively Director International Operations of Kunskapsskolan and Director of Education of Kunskapsskolan in Stockholm. KED Talk had a frank and profound conversation with them about the essence and further development of the Kunskapsskolan EDucation program, about the quality of educat...

In this KED Talk a conversation with two founders of Kunskapsskolan: Cecilia Carnefeldt and Torbjörn Bindekrans. The first is CEO of Kunskapsskolan worldwide and the second the very founder of KED EDucation program. A candid conversation – recorded during the Kunskapsskolan Community Event on October 7 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands - about their mutual experiences and challenges in developing Kuns...

Self-regulating learners, Personalized education, and Kunskapsskolan Education, seem familiar. Both from the perspective of the student and the teacher. But is this really the case? Not all teachers have a clear definition of personalized learning. Or what tools can be used to support students to take more ownership of their learning, to be more self-regulating.  Recently, in a global UNESCO repor...

According to a recent UNESCO report, on which 300 experts from 45 countries have been working since 2019, most parents, teachers, and students in the world demand things from education that personalized learning can provide. The UNESCO report is a global attempt to identify a way forward for education and learning. Concluding that every student learns differently and thus receiving appropriate per...