This report was co-ordinated by Lawrence Houldsworth who also led the authoring of Chapters 1 to 5. He is grateful to Hannah Kitchen, Elizabeth Fordham, Yasemin Buharali and Catharina Gress-Wright (OECD Secretariat) for their support in realising this report, and to François Staring, Anita Richter and Marta Sydoryak (OECD Secretariat) for their helpful reviews. The report also benefitted from the guidance of Andreas Schleicher (Director for Education and Skills) and Paulo Santiago (Head of Division, Policy Advice and Implementation). Chapter 6 was authored by Liliia Hrynevych (Kharkiv University, Ukraine), Volodymyr Bozhynskyi (Kharkiv University, Ukraine), Oleksandr Elkin (EdCamp Ukraine NGO), Halyna Kovalchuk (Kharkiv University, Ukraine), Yevhen Nikolaiev (Kharkiv University, Ukraine), Hryhorii Rii (Kharkiv University, Ukraine) and EdCamp Ukraine NGO. Christina Mitrakos (OECD Secretariat) oversaw the report’s preparation and production with Rachel Linden and Ameline Besin (OECD Secretariat) providing additional production and communications support.
Additionally, valuable input and feedback were provided by the following stakeholders to help shape this report, as well as the work of organising an international peer-learning seminar on teacher professional learning around this report: the Ministry of Education and Science in Ukraine, EdCamp Ukraine NGO, the Teacher Academy at V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, and Anna Duchenko (Deputy Principal at Vinnytsia Primary School #25, Ukraine). Further thanks go to the contributions of the Civil Peace Service (CPS) of GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit) Ukraine for supporting the aforementioned peer-learning seminar.
The OECD Secretariat is also grateful for the participation of Chile, England (United Kingdom), Finland, Ireland and Singapore, as well as the European School Heads Association and the European Training Foundation, in the international peer-learning seminar. The OECD Secretariat is also grateful for the valuable input of Chile, England (United Kingdom), Estonia, Finland, Ireland, Japan and Singapore during the preparation of the work for this seminar and this publication.