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The Inspire Schools
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
The Inspire Schools, an independent primary and secondary school in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, is nurturing the comprehensive development of its students by putting emotional resilience at the centre of its ‘High Tech – High Touch’ pedagogical model that blends digital innovation with human connection to prioritise learner and teacher wellbeing and mental health.
Pilar Lacruz
Nord Anglia International School Dubai
Dubai, UAE
Nord Anglia International School Dubai (NAS Dubai), a British curriculum school starting with Early Years through to Sixth Formin Dubai, United Arab Emirates, is pioneering a reimagined model of community inclusion in one of the world’s most internationally diverse and fast-moving cities by embedding participation, belonging, and collective responsibility into every part of school life.
Pilar Lacruz
Slum2School Green Academy
Epe, Lagos, Nigeria
Slum2School Green Academy, a charity-run kindergarten and primary school in Epe, Lagos State, Nigeria, is advancing learning for 250 underserved children from eight riverine communities through a first-of-its-kind, climate-smart school with an experiential, inquiry-based learning model that helps students gain up to three years of learning in one school year.
Pilar Lacruz
Escola Municipal GET IV Centenario
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Escola Municipal GET IV Centenario, a public primary school in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is giving learners the opportunity to embrace education safely and consistently in one of the city’s most violent and socially vulnerable communities through a hands-on learning model built around emotional safety, student leadership, creativity, and hope.
Felicitas Irazusta
Cabog-Cabog Integrated School
Balanga, Bataan, Philippines
Cabog-Cabog Integrated School, a government kindergarten, primary and secondary school in Balanga, Bataan, Philippines, is placing environmental education at the centre of its “curriculum garden mapping’ learning model that has turned the school into a living laboratory where students blend ancestral agricultural knowledge with hydroponics, robotics, organic farming, and entrepreneurship.
Pilar Lacruz
Darüşşafaka Eğitim Kurumları
Istanbul, Türkiye
Darüşşafaka Educational Institutions, a full-scholarship boarding school in Istanbul, Türkiye, is transforming how education systems respond to crisis by combining high-touch pastoral care with an adaptive remote learning model that helps vulnerable children remain connected to learning, stability and future opportunity even during profound disruption.