European Days
EASSE in Europe
Since 2015, an annual conference has been held in different European cities.
17th-18th November, 2022
Rome
VII EASSE European Meeting
CURRENT CHALLENGES OF PERSONALIZED SINGLE-SEX EDUCATION
Keynote Speakers
THURSDAY 17th
2.30 Presentation
2.40 PLENARY SESSION 1:
Christian identity schools in today’s society
Mons. Mariano Fazio, auxiliary vicar of Opus Dei
3.40 Coffee break
4.00 PLENARY SESSION 2:
Women’s role in the transformation of society
Nuria Chinchilla, Professor of Managing People in Organizations at IESE Business School
5.00 Break
5.15 WORKSHOPS (SIMULTANEOUS)
Workshop 1: Personalized single-sex education (a new perspective)
Miquel Dionis, general secretary of Viaró Global School
Workshop 2: Commitment to equality in single-sex personalized education schools
Alfonso Aguiló, President of CECE
5.45 Break
6.00 WORKSHOPS (SIMULTANEOUS)
Workshop 3: Social commitment: a way of Being and being in the world
Conchita Berjano, director of educational centers Institució Familiar de Educació
Workshop 4: Mentoring, an essential aspect in single-sex personalized education schools
Nacho San Román, director of education and personal development at Attendis
6.45 End of day
FRIDAY 18th
10.00 PLENARY SESSION 3: To educate with “imperfect” families
Mariolina Ceriotti, child neuropsychiatrist and adult psychotherapist
11.00 Coffee break -group photo
11.30 PLENARY SESSION 4: Identity communication
Juan Manuel Mora, Vice Rector of the Università della Santa Croce (Rome)
12.30 Break
12.45 WORKSHOPS (SIMULTANEOUS)
Workshop 5: How good are you at dialogue? Educating in dialogue empowers communication
Janet Dean, principal of Rosemont Park School
Workshop 6: E-ducating: the technological environment in children’s education
María José Abad, coordinator of Empantallados
1.30 Break
1.45 WORKSHOPS (SIMULTANEOUS)
Workshop 7: Key aspects of a communication plan for a single-sex personalized school
Rafa Martín Aguado, consultant at Rommel&Montgomery, expert in communication in educational institutions
Workshop 8: Teacher training
Ana Moreno, director of the Impuls Educació Study Center.
Dobrochna Lama, director of education TDJ Foundation
2.45 Closure
PLENARY SESSIONS
Christian identity schools in today’s society
- Mons. Mariano Fazio, auxiliary vicar of Opus Dei.
Women’s role in the transformation of society
- Nuria Chinchilla, Professor of Managing People in Organizations at IESE Business School.
To educate with “imperfect” families
- Mariolina Ceriotti, child neuropsychiatrist and adult psychotherapist.
Identity communication
- Juan Manuel Mora, Vice Rector of the Università della Santa Croce (Rome).
WORKSHOPS
Single-sex personalized education
- Miquel Dionis, general secretary of Viaró Global School.
Commitment to equality in single-sex personalized education schools
- Alfonso Aguiló, President of CECE.
Mentoring, an essential aspect in single-sex personalized education schools
- Nacho San Román, director of education and personal development at Attendis.
How good are you at dialogue? Educating in dialogue empowers communication
- Janet Dean, principal of Rosemont Park School.
E-ducating: the technological environment in children’s education
- María José Abad, coordinator of Empantallados.
Teacher training
- Ana Moreno, director of the Impuls Educació Study Center.
- Dobrochna Lama, director of education TDJ Foundation.
Social commitment: a way of Being and being in the world
- Conchita Berjano, director of educational centers Institució Familiar de Educació.
Key aspects of a communication plan for a single-sex personalized school
- Rafa Martín Aguado, consultant at Rommel&Montgomery, expert in communication in educational institutions.
The VII European EASSE Meeting, the first face-to-face event since 2019, is once again an opportunity to spend two days sharing reflections and experiences on our educational model.
At the previous Conference, we agreed to use the term ‘differentiated personalized education’ to capture the breadth and quality of the educational action of our institutions and schools.
We believe that their academic and attainments are due to the fact that our educational project is based on the dignity of the person, the full development of each student, and personalized attention. And it is because our differentiated model takes into account an essential feature of each person: being a male or female.
This perspective, which assumes differences between men and women, is increasingly prominent in the field of education. Referring to the performance of female and male students, the latest OECD report highlights their ‘different maturity processes’ and their ‘different expectations’.
These are realities that have defined some of the features of our model of differentiated personalized education from the beginning: attention to the different maturity processes and the creation of an educational environment free of social and cultural stereotypes for both girls and boys.
Two indicators that are highly valued by society confirm our model’s contributions: the percentages of female students choosing STEM careers, a sign that the gender gap is being overcome, and students’ academic outcomes, which exceed the negative expectations that the education system has of them.
This is the framework of the Seventh EASSE Conference, ‘Current Challenges of Differentiated Personalized Education,’ to be held on November 17 and 18 in Rome. Its plenary sessions will deal with several factors in which our model is deeply involved: Christian identity, the role of women in today’s society, the participation of families, and communication.
- Christian identity is the foundation of our educational model and of the education offered by our schools, thanks to which throughout the world and in all professions our students can be significant players in a globalized society that needs the gaze of Christian humanism.
- Nowadays, women play a very important role in the transformation of society. On an equal footing, they continue to reach new spaces, where they promote and collaborate in these processes in all social and professional spheres, and in family life.
- Families, promoters of some of the institutions represented in EASSE, are the first educators of their children and an essential part of schools’ educational communities. Just like students and teachers, they require attention that responds to new situations to effectively assist them in their most important responsibility.
- Currently, adequately communicating the identity, goals, values and principles of an educational institution, along with its academic reality, its solidarity actions or its environmental commitment, is a task that involves everyone and is part of the responsibilities of administrative teams.
Alternating with the plenary sessions, the eight workshops that comprise the Seventh EASSE Day will explore some aspects of these topics and other related topics of a more practical nature. Attendees will be able to participate in four of these workshops that will examine: our educational model, equality in differentiated personalized education schools, tutoring, character education, technology in the education of children, teacher training, social commitment as a way of being and being in the world, and some key references of a communication plan for a differentiated personalized school.
As in the previous Conference, this new call is an opportunity to continue deepening and enriching our educational model, which helps thousands of families educate their children and brings so many good things to the 21st-century society.
Pontificia Università della Santa Croce
Piazza di Sant’Apollinare, 49,
00186 Rome RM, Italy.
Conference History
EASSE European Days from previous years.
