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March 31th, 2023
Directors and directors, school teachers and families from all over Latin America will be able to attend the days 26 y 27 de abril the first International Congress of Inclusive Education, a virtual event organized by Santillana, in collaboration with UNIR, Fundación Santillana, UNICEF, the Organization of Iberoamerican States (OEI) and the Interamerican Confederation of Catholic Education (CIEC).
The event will analyze the challenges posed by the inclusive school of the future and will provide tools to move towards an education in which everyone has the same opportunities.
"We want to encourage collective and individual reflection by all the actors involved in the training process to implement the principles of inclusiveness in schools, through joint collaboration between teachers, families and students", he pointed out. Francis Square, executive president of Santillana.
To this end, the congress will count on the participation of outstanding international speakers: Cynthia E. Brizuela Speratti, education specialist and regional reference for disability inclusion and cultural diversity for Latin America and the Caribbean at UNICEF (Panama); José Ramón Gamo, neurodiversity expert and founding partner of CADE centers (Spain); Marcelo Rocha, writer, psychologist, psychoanalyst and lecturer at the University of Rosario (Argentina); Esther Moreno, psychopedagogue, teacher and founder of ActivAeduca (Spain); Francisco Garate, doctor in innovation and educational planning and coordinator of Education at OEI (Chile); Araceli Salas, early childhood educator, therapeutic psychomotor practitioner and founder of Disfam (Spain); Carlos García Junco, expert in attention to diversity and educational inclusion and professor at UNIR; The House of Carlota, pioneering design studio of creative activism; and Luis Guillermo Bernal, global director of Santillana Content.
To attend the event it will be necessary to register in advance on the website, where you can also consult the agenda for each day: https://educacioninclusiva.santillana.com/
Santillana Inclusiva will be presented at the congress, Santillana's new proposal to help schools effectively implement the principles of inclusiveness in education.
The Global Content Director of Santillana, Luis Guillermo Bernal, has explained that this project "arises from the need that schools and families have to provide a solution to a reality that they experience daily inside and outside the classroom."
Santillana Inclusiva offers curricular materials adapted to the needs of seven priority care groups, as well as technical pedagogical guidance and advice to the centers. In this way, it seeks to improve the results and emotional well-being of students with different abilities or functional diversity.
Both this new project and the celebration of the International Congress on Inclusive Education are part of Santillana's commitment to diversity and equality in education, in line with Sustainable Development Goal number 4 and the company's Sustainability Master Plan.