Team

Researcher, Professor and Weaver of Learning Ecosystems for a better world. Jordi is an edupreneur with an ecosystemic and research background. He is interested in weaving learning ecosystems to co-design and co-implement solutions for a better world. He teaches in the Education Degree in FPCEE Blaquerna, and coordinates the NetEduProject

Özge is the Communications Coordinator of Education Reform Initiative in Turkey. She completed her undergraduate degree in Business Administration at Middle East Technical University and master’s degree in European Economic Integration and Business at College of Europe in Belgium. She specializes in marketing and communication strategies for for-profit and not-for-profit organizations by applying behavior changing methodologies.

Martin Scanlan is an associate professor in Educational Leadership at the Lynch School of Education at Boston College. Before becoming a faculty member in higher education, Scanlan spent a decade working in teaching and administration in urban elementary and middle schools in Washington, D.C., Berkeley, CA, and Madison, WI. He continues to work closely with building and district level administrators to bridge research and practice. Scanlan’s research explores how to strengthen the communities of practice in schools to promote inclusion of students across multiple dimensions of diversity. His scholarship has focused primarily on reform in special education service delivery, bilingual education, and school-community collaboration. His work can help leaders conceptualize how to structure service delivery, promote professional learning, and attain resources. He is committed to design-based research in which practitioners play a lead role in articulating the problems of practice that they seek to address, and creating collaborative research projects tackling these problems.

Although perceived by many as an educational commentator Kim is currently working as an education futurist drawing on vast experience as a seasoned educator who has worked at all levels and sectors of education K-12, higher education, state, CEO and independent, locally, nationally and internationally. Kim’s current roles in higher education draw upon his diverse experience in performing arts, applied science, technical and creative management, educational leadership, arts and education research to position him slightly to the left of thought leaders shaping the future direction of education and learning engagement within Curtin University and across their partners and collaborators in schools, libraries, museums, galleries, sustainable development agencies, global education, etc. His doctoral research is an investigation of the impacts of network membership upon innovation and transformation of practice in schools.

Sotiria Kanavidou is a PhD candidate at the University of Southampton, School of Education. After receiving her BA in Early Childhood Education from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, she worked as a pre-school teacher in different contexts. In 2019, Sotiria received an Msc from the University of Southampton and later she was awarded a scholarship from the University of Southampton that allowed her to extend her studies focusing on inter-school collaboration and the potentials on school networks in promoting improvement, with a particular emphasis on system leadership and Social Network Analysis.