Mr Tom Ighalo, Vice President of Human Resources and Admin, Teesas Education; Mrs Modupe Adeyinka-Oni, Executive Director of Standard Bearers School, Mr Osayi Izedonmwen, Chairman and Founder, Teesas Education; Dr Mrs Femi Ogunsanya, Founder of Oxbridge Tutorial College and Mrs Monica Lewis, Head of Schools, Pegasus Schools during the Teesas Leader in Me Program organised for school owners and management staff on Wednesday 26 June in Lagos.
Some stakeholders in education have called for a paradigm shift to socio-emotional learning and leadership development to transform societies.
The stakeholders made the call at a leadership development programme in Lagos on Wednesday.
The programme tagged “Leader in Me (LIM)”, was organised by Teesas, an education technology company, in collaboration with FranklinCovey Education, a provider of educational leadership programmes.
It was organised for school owners and management staff.
The Founder of Oxbridge Tutorial College, Mrs Femi Ogunsanya, said at the event that such a paradigm shift would require restoration of values needed for societal advancement.
“The LIM programme has some of the values that it propagates: discipline, hard work and respect.
“It is important that we catch children young from nursery and primary schools and inculcate these values in them.
“How do we restore all these? It is through programmes like the LIM so that, once the children are able to imbibe all of those values, their emotional quotient shifts; that is paradigm shift we need to see, “ she said.
She urged that schools in public and private sectors should key into such a programme and collaborate to ensure promotion of the values.
“It has taken us decades to get to where we are, but we have to be intentional through this programme, for decades, to gradually re-find ourselves and re-establish the values in our system, “ she said.
The Executive Director of Standard Bearers School, Mrs Modupe Adeyinka-Oni, urged schools and governments to key into the LIM programme to enable a positive change in the society.
“Every school is a sub-sector of the larger community, and every community, a sub-sector of the country.
“If we change as a people, become more conscious of other people and collaborate, we will have this multiplier effect, “ Adeyinka-Oni said.
In his remarks, the Founder of Teesas Education, Mr Osayi Izedonwem, described the programme as a whole-school transformative programme.
According to him, it aims to raise the level of socio-emotional learning across all schools.
“As we know today, a lot of schools focus on academics.
“However, the reality is that in a knowledge economy that the world is moving into, social-emotional learning and leadership development are the core skills that truly transform learners and prepare them for that world.
“Today, a lot of schools are not equipped for that, and that is what LIM aims to do – a whole-school transformation that works with the school administrators and parents in a holistic manner to deliver leadership development and socio-emotional learning across primary and secondary schools, “ he said.
