by lwang | May 25, 2011 | CMC, Kravis Prize
We’re excited to announce that Claremont McKenna College has opened the nomination period for the seventh annual Henry R. Kravis Prize in Leadership. You can now submit your candidate suggestions through the Kravis Prize website. All candidates submitted on the site will be considered along with nominations from a select group of individuals who are invited to serve as nominators based on their knowledge and experience in the nonprofit sector. Get your nominations in soon! The deadline for submissions is July 1, 2011. The 2012 winner of the Kravis Prize, which carries a $250,000 award, will be recognized during a celebratory dinner in Los Angeles in March of next year. Could your favorite nonprofit organization be accepting this prestigious honor? Submit the organization’s name and why you think they deserve the Prize and find out! Submit your suggestions for Kravis Prize candidates...
by lwang | May 6, 2011 | AIL, Education, Kravis Prize, Sakena Yacoobi, Vicky Colbert
I would like to congratulate Vicky Colbert of the Escuela Nueva Foundation, this year’s winner of the Kravis Prize in Leadership. Vicky’s work in reforming education for children in Latin America is making a real impact for those let down by traditional education systems. This is incredibly important work and Vicky deserves this great honor. Speaking from my own experience, winning the Kravis Prize will allow Vicky and Escuela Nueva to reach a much larger audience of people interested in education. When I was awarded the Kravis Prize in 2009, I knew that it would help financially as well as help raise the visibility and prominence of my organization, the Afghan Institute of Learning (AIL). What I didn’t anticipate was how the reputation of the Kravis Prize would bring AIL increased credibility on the international stage. The Prize has opened doors to many new opportunities and inspired my staff to work even harder than they had in the past. We greatly appreciate the honor and the feeling that people recognize and appreciate the importance of our work educating women and girls in Afghanistan. To achieve our goal of educating women and girls in one of the world’s most oppressive countries, AIL responds to the needs of local communities. In our work, we have to think creatively in order to blend the culture and needs of Afghan women and children with new innovations in teaching, critical thinking skills, human rights, leadership and peace. Vicky and Escuela Nueva have developed incredibly innovative ways to improve the level of education through changing the roles of teachers and students in ways that really...
by lwang | Apr 19, 2011 | CMC, Education, Escuela Nueva, Kravis Prize, Vicky Colbert
During her recent travels to the U.S. to receive the 2011 Kravis Prize in Leadership, Vicky Colbert visited Claremont McKenna College and spoke with students Cody Chang and Nikki Holzberg. In the video below, Colbert talked about the benefits of the Kravis Prize and its positive effect in allowing the Escuela Nueva to create change in the field of education. Colbert stressed the importance of Escuela Nueva’s cooperative learning approach, saying that students who dialogue with one another and learn to work with and accept each other’s ideas, will start to develop citizenship skills that lead to increased participation in their communities and the development of peaceful democracies. Escuela Nueva, said Colbert, is creating a new generation of leaders through democratic classroom elections that are providing a cultural shift in Latin America to promote cooperation and peaceful dialogue. Click on the video below to see Vicky Colbert’s interview. You can also view more videos on Colbert and Escuela Nueva here. ...
by lwang | Mar 31, 2011 | Education, Escuela Nueva, Kravis Prize, Vicky Colbert
Could Los Angeles benefit from an educational model developed in Colombia? In an article published in La Opinión, 2011 Kravis Prize recipient Vicky Colbert contends that Escuela Nueva’s successful model of child-centered, participatory learning could be adapted to fit Hispanic populations in other countries, including the United States. While cities like Los Angeles are beset by gang violence, the article pointed out that children in Latin America are confronted with similar issues, such as the dangerous influence of drug trafficking. Escuela Nueva’s educational model, which has thrived in developing nations, might prove successful in developed nations as well. As Colbert explained, “Plant your goals in a new envirnoment, and perhaps it can grow in the...
by lwang | Mar 25, 2011 | CMC, Education, Escuela Nueva, Kravis Prize, Vicky Colbert
Can the educational model espoused by the Escuela Nueva Foundation in Colombia work here in the United States? In his Cutting-Edge Leadership blog on PsychologyToday.com, Dr. Ronald Riggio explains that, not only would this model work here, it was created here and it is still used in the best schools in the country. Riggio, the Henry R. Kravis Professor of Leadership and Organizational Psychology at Claremont McKenna College, explores the limitations of the “top down” approach of the current U.S. educational system and how our children’s education could be drastically improved by adopting methods spearheaded by 2011 Kravis Prize winner Vicky Colbert and the Escuela Nueva Foundation. Read more: Leading From the Ground Up: How To Transform U.S. Education [PsychologyToday.com]...
