HP certifies Grace School Teachers as IDEA Fellows

Peace Obi

Grace School has been certified as an HP Innovation and Digital Education Academy (IDEA) school.

This came as over 130 Grace School educators are now HP IDEA associates.

The school management, in a statement, disclosed that eight of its educators also attained HP IDEA fellows.
The school’s certification came from the involvement of eight staff that went through a year-long Fellow IDEA Programme, organised by Hewlett-Packard (HP), in collaboration with ITEL.

The eight HP IDEA fellows are Ayodele Adetayo, Taiwo Olubanke, Tunde Ayeni, Kayode Omoleye, Esther Arigidi, Jude Ashiedu, Israel Olukale, and Abayomi Adebanjo.

The IDEA platform marks a school’s commitment to transforming its digital pedagogies to flourish in the 21st century. The school’s involvement in the programme helped promote the development of effective teacher-leaders, embedding and scaling effective teaching skills, supporting teachers’ and students’ innovation and entrepreneurship, etc.

Grace School’s HP IDEA fellows were able to leverage the existing digital tools in the school to develop practices focused on teaching and learning in hybrid learning models while adapting the collaborative domain of High Leverage Teaching Practices (HLTP) as a major area of research.

A school staff, Ayodele Adetayo, was the facilitator and spokesman for Nigerian private schools during the graduation ceremony held recently.

The graduation ceremony witnessed dignitaries from the HP management team, Mirai Partners (an education innovation consultancy), ministry of education personnel, educators, and education leaders from the Middle East and Africa.

Due to the rigorous and intensive projects, conferences, and innovation sessions, only a handful of schools could complete the programme in Nigeria and the United Arab Emirates.