Templeton World Charity Foundation is one of T4 Education's partners in The World's Best School Prizes. The prize seeks to recognize and celebrate exemplary schools that, in the shadow of the pandemic, have demonstrated powerful and inspiring initiatives, transforming the lives of their students and their communities. The $250,000 prize fund will be equally shared among the winning five schools from across the globe in 2022. There are five categories within the prize:
Community Collaboration Schools integratively working with their communities to secure solid grounds for children’s progress.
Environmental Action Schools engaging with solutions for global warming and climate crisis.
Innovation Schools breaking from tradition to accelerate progress and improve education by ‘leapfrogging’ innovative approaches.
Overcoming Adversity Schools strengthening their students while succeeding in powering through challenges.
Supporting Healthy Lives Schools providing the opportunity for their students and community to live healthily in an integrated and sustainable way.
In June 2022, the 50 schools named in the Top 10 shortlists in five categories for the World’s Best School Prizes were announced. Through their outstanding work, these trailblazing schools have achieved a positive, long-lasting impact in the lives of their students and of their wider communities. Read about the schools that made the shortlist in each category here.
In September 2022, T4 will announce the Top 3 finalists in each category of the World’s Best School Prizes. The Top 3 schools in each category will take part in a recorded interview, and a Public Advisory Vote will open to the public. (Sign up to join the Public Advisory Vote here.) Following this, evaluation packages for the top nominees for each category will be sent to T4's independent Judging Academy, composed of leaders from academia, educators, NGOS, social entrepreneurs, government, civil society, and the private sector. The Judging Academy — which includes TWCF President Andrew Serazin and TWCF Advisor for Strategic Relationships and Partnerships Fiona Gatty — will then be responsible for choosing the winning schools.
Winners will be announced during World Education Week, in October 2022. Stay tuned!
HNG News - Westside Elementary competing for World's Best Schools prize Schools noted: Curie Metropolitan High School in Chicago, Illinois, USA, Oak Knoll Elementary School in Meno Park, California, USA and Westside Elementary in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, USA.
MENFN - Two inspirational UAE schools named in Top 10 shortlists for new $250,000 World’s Best School Prize Schools noted: GEMS Legacy School, a private K-12 school in Dubai, UAE and Shining Star International School, an independent institution in Abu Dhabi, UAE.
Rappler - 3 Philippine public schools are finalists for World’s Best School Prize categories Schools noted: Bonuan Buquig National High School in Dagupan City, Pangasinan, Philippines, G.L. David Memorial Integrated School in Balanga City, Bataan, Philippines, and Malitbog National High School in Calinog, Iloilo, Philippines.
That's Shanghai - Shanghai School News Roundup: June 2022 School noted: Dulwich College Shanghai, Pudong, Shanghai, China.
The Guardian Nigeria - Nigerian school emerged Top 10 in $250,000 World’s Best school prizes Schools noted: Best Intellectuals Model School, in Ohanku, Aba, Abia State, Nigeria.
Vulcan Post - Get to know the 2 M’sian public schools named in the Top 10 of World’s Best School Prizes Schools noted: SK Kempadang in Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia and SMK Kampong Jawa in Klang, Malaysia.
