Vision
“To support the education world to keep learning central through high quality professional learning inputs, debates, tools, videos. When embraced and applied this will lead to high expectations, better teaching, learner agency and improved outcomes.”
Stephen Cox and Anne-Marie Duguid – Founder and Co-creators.
The World Education Summit* (WES) is now in its fourth year – bringing equitable access to the best speakers and practitioners in the world. It has built its reputation around quality and impact – all with learning at the centre. It is a little bit different – we embrace challenge and controversy whilst making sure we are providing what you as schools say you need and would like. We search for emerging horizons and we support leaders to raise their head above the parapet and see a different view.
Launched in 2020, Anne-Marie Duguid and Stephen Cox, alongside Professor John Hattie recognised that more needed to be done at the start of the pandemic, to give something back to our amazing profession. The Summit was born. Little did we know at that point how big this would become. Now in 2024 we will have reached over 100,000 registrants globally. Accessed by teachers, leaders, educators, schools, districts and countries – all seeing this as something special and different.
We seek brave leaders, passionate practitioners and cool schools from around the world. We already have a waiting list for 2025.
The World Education Summit is working with incredible partners and ambassadors who share our vision.
The speakers and hosts make WES special, as do our incredible participants who share stories of the impact.
Most importantly it is all about impact – allowing access all year enables flexible use for schools and practitioners. We want these sessions debated and unpacked for your schools. Try the new learning, adapt it and discuss with our teams.
The ripple effects of WES 2021, 2022 and 2023 were felt in classrooms around the world, heralding the start of a new era of professional learning and a worldwide stage to showcase incredible approaches.
2024 marks the world’s largest celebration of learning, our 10 Pledges are starting to become a reality but we must do more.
WES 2024 promises to revolutionise the world of education once again.
We hope you can be part of the WES family .
*brought to the world by Osiris Educational*, a pioneering educational organisation.
Stephen Cox
Founder of Osiris Educational, Co-creator of the World Education Summit
Stephen Cox is the founder and CEO of Osiris Educational, the UK’s leading independent teacher training provider, and the co-creator of the World Education Summit. For the last quarter of a century, he has worked with the world’s top educationalists to bring pioneering and innovative training to teachers and leaders across the U.K and throughout schools around the world. During this time, he has developed and supported award-winning educational programmes including: the Osiris Teaching Intervention, Collective Leadership and Visible Learning. His latest cutting-edge mission is centred on creating worldwide online systems for teacher and learning development.
Anne-Marie Duguid
Co-creator of the World Education Summit
Anne-Marie Duguid is one of the most experienced senior leaders in education globally and Co-Founder of the World Education Summit. As a founding Director of the Chartered College of Teaching, Co-CEO and founder of Enabling Leaders, Anne-Marie holds key expertise in developing, designing, and implementing whole-school strategy. Backed by a glowing record of success of leading education, she works passionately alongside some of the world’s foremost educationalists to instil the powerful ethos of evaluation, impact and evidence informed practice in schools, leaders, and teachers across the globe.
*Osiris Educational was established in 1996, Osiris Educational is the leading professional learning provider for schools and colleges, initially in the UK and now global through The World Education Summit. At the cutting edge of educational change, we leverage the research and turn it into classroom practice – working in partnership with teachers, school leaders, district leaders and educational thought leaders.