Portfolio
Projects
I am involved in multiple projects in Chile. Click on the small green points in the map to learn more about the interesting work that’s taking place in a society under reconstruction.
1 of 13Change Leadership in Catholic School Network
Courses on Change Leadership and School Transformation with Tu Clase Tu País. Alongside Michael Fullan and Asha daCosta, I am offering an online course on Change Leadership for school and system leaders aimed at cultivating their capacity to effectively mobilize hearts, heads, and hands. I also support a course on school transformation for deep
learning, an introductory course for teachers and school leaders interested in learning about pedagogies that deepen and enhance student learning)
Leadership for Learning Program – Concepción
This one-of-a-kind program led by a group of dear friends and comrades from the School of Education at the Catholic University of Temuco is deliberately designed to prepare leaders to liberate learning in classrooms, schools, school networks and communities in Chile. Since 2018 I make time every year to work as with the leading team of this program, its professors, and
students, as a mentor and critical friend.
Follow the phenomenal work of this program on Twitter at @LiderApre_UCT
3 of 13+Comunidad Leadership Centre.
This is one of two centres leading the national efforts in Chile to develop leadership capacity in schools and in the intermediate leadership structures of the evolving education system in Chile. The partnership leading this centre includes the Universities of Concepción, Atacama, and Austral, as well as Fundación Chile and Fundación Educacional Seminarium, and covers Atacama, Biobío, Los Ríos, and the Metropolitan Region. Together with my mentor and friend Michael Fullan, we are supporting the design and development of this leadership centre as advisors, critical friends, and instructors.
Find out more about +Comunidad here
4 of 13Redes de Tutoría developed and continues to spread a powerful pedagogy of tutorial relationships in Mexico and abroad. Also known at the Learning Community Project, this work represents one of the
most vibrant and resilient movements to liberate learning I’ve had the privilege to work with and support. Over the past two decades, the work of leaders in this movement has taken on multiple forms and been hosted by different organizations. I continue to support their work to liberate learning as a mentor, critical friend, and advisor. Currently, I am a member of the board of Redes de Tutoría.
Find out more about Redes de Tutoría here.
CONAFE (National Council for the Promotion of Education).
CONAFE is an autonomous branch of the Mexican Ministry of Education tasked with providing education services to the most remote communities across the country, through about 30 thousand education centers. This institution is where I started by career in education, alongside my lifelong mentor Gabriel Cámara. With Gabriel now back as the director of CONAFE, I have coordinated and hosted international seminars that bring
leaders and practitioners of the tutorial networks movement with national and international experts. I have also been supporting the design and monitoring of CONAFE’s ambitious strategy to liberate learning in thousands of Mexico’s the most remote communities.
Find out more about CONAFE here.
5 of 13Escuela Nueva represent one of the most powerful and longest lasting movements of pedagogical renewal in Colombia and abroad. Over the past few years, I’ve come to learn a lot about liberating
learning from this important initiative. This year I’ve had the tremendous privilege to be in close communication with Escuela Nueva’s co-founder and inaugural recipient of the Yidan Prize Vicky Colbert, to support the development of the narrative and story of Escuela Nueva with the double intention of amplifying its international visibility and link it to the most up to date knowledge on educational change, learning, and leadership.
Find out more about Escuela Nueva here.
6 of 13Centre for Educational Transformation. (Centro para la Transformación Educativa, CETE)
This center, hosted by Universidad Marcelino Champagnat, is a incubator and innovation lab created to reimagine and recreate education in Perú. I support this centre as an advisor and critical friend.
Find out more about CETE here.
7 of 13Professional Learning Program for District and School Leaders in Ohio.
In partnership for the Systems Development and Improvement Center at the University of Cincinnati, and alongside my dear mentor and colleague Steve Anderson, I am working on the design and a delivery of an ambitious program to hone in the knowledge and skills of teams of district and school leaders in Ohio as lead learners, systems-change leaders, and coherence builders.
Find out more about SDI and its projects and programs here.
As part of Michael Fullan’s consulting and advisory team, I’ve taken part in an ongoing effort to track down and provide feedback to the State of California as it endeavours to advance an ambitious reform agenda across its over 1000 school districts.
You can find more about our work in California here.
Teacher Expert Networks, New South Wales, Australia.
The State of New South Wales is adopting a new curriculum, and teacher leaders from all over the State are organized in networks to user-test and develop feedback to the Ministry of Education for its implementation. The networks are growing into a powerful force for renewing the culture of schooling and policy development in New South Wales. I am supporting this work in an advisory and capacity
building role, alongside esteemed and admired colleagues Andy Hargreaves, Amanda Datnow, Pasi Sahlberg, Cindy Poortman and Chris Brown.
You can find out more about the Teacher Expert Networks here.
10 of 13Active Deep Learner Experience, by Sega Group.
Sega Group is a social enterprise that has designed a powerful model to develop human developers, grounded on a deep and solid understanding of why and how people learn. The Active Deep Learner Experience has spread to 10 countries across the Global South. I met Mohamed Baghat, founder of the Sega Group in 2020 in Marrakesh, at the International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement. I was impressed by his organization’s approach to learning and professional development. Mohamed has become a dear and esteemed friend, and I have the privilege to support his work as an advisor and critical friend.
Find out more about the Active Deep Learner Experience here.
11 of 13College of Alberta School Superintendents. The province of Alberta in Canada is leading the world in developing a cadre of district leaders who are seen, treated and supported as lead learners. Alberta has established high professional standards of practice for its system leaders. The College of Alberta School Superintendents has designed and delivered a robust learning program to support its members to learn about and master the standards. CASS is also in the midst of an important transition to become a full-fledged professional organization. Since 2017, I have been supporting CASS efforts to fully support the development of Alberta´s district leaders as lead learners. Find out more about CASS here.
12 of 13I first visited Scotland in October 2023 to participate in the Scottish Learning Festival conversations. It was like meeting long lost friends! I am
currently in conversations with multiple agencies in the country to support this beautiful country’s quest to realize its powerful vision for student learning and wellbeing. Watch my keynote here.
Courses
Talks
PANEL
Education Disrupted, Education Reimagined, Part III
Education Disrupted, Education Reimagined, Part III
In this conversation, Santiago Rincón-Gallardo joins Wendy Kopp, Founder and CEO of Teacher for All (USA) and Vicky Colbert (Co-Founder of Escuela Nueva) in a panel discussing educational leadership and equity during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. Key ideas shared by Santiago in this panel include:
- Learning is a practice of freedom
- Equity should be a practice of solidarity, not one of condescendence
- Effective leaders create the conditions for all to learn while learning alongside them about what is working and what isn’t.
- Resourcefulness – how you turn what you have into what you need to get what you want - will matter more than resources.
- Social movements offer a good metaphor to guide how we think about and pursue educational change.
CONVERSATION
Liberating Learning. Curious Convos, Australia
Liberating Learning. Curious Convos, Australia
In this conversation with Andrea Stringer, Santiago tells the personal story behind his book Liberating Learning. He invites listeners to play with a simple idea: Learning is a practice of freedom. And he discusses the implications of this simple proposition for the work of those leading classrooms, schools, and educational systems.
WEBINAR
Educación en Pandemia: Nuevos Paradigmas y Educación Rural
Educación en Pandemia: Nuevos Paradigmas y Educación Rural
In this webinar, Santiago Rincón-Gallardo joins Jorge Poblete, Deputy Minister of Education in Chile, Alejandra Arratia, Director of Educación 2020, and Gonzalo Plaza, Founder and Director of Fundación 99 to discuss new paradigms and rural education. Key ideas shared by Santiago in this panel:
- Rural education at a cross roads: ¿Replicate or Reinvent? ¿Catching up with the game of schooling or taking the lead in the game of learning?
- Turn disadvantage into possibility
- Liberating learning is at the core of rebuilding the human project
WEBINAR
WEBINAR
KEYNOTE
KEYNOTE
WEBINAR
Cambio Educativo como Movimiento Social: Reimaginar la Escuela y los Sistemas Educativas
KEYNOTE
Liderazgo para Cultivar Capital Profesional
WEBINAR
INTERVIEW
WEBINAR
¿Cómo logar el aprendizaje profundo en los estudiantes?
KEYNOTE
INTERVIEW
KEYNOTE
Essential Features of Effective Networks in Education
GROUP PRESENTATIONS
Highlighted Publications
For a more complete list (including free copies) of my publications, visit my academic sites at Academia.edu and Researchgate
New Publication
Liberating Learning: Educational Change as Social Movement
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Selected publication
Opinion piece
Opinion piece
Opinion piece
Dewey and Freire Need Each Other to Fight a Common Enemy: Conventional Schooling
Featured Courses
Services
Liberating Learning. Santiago at The Learning Future
Learning is a Practice of Freedom. Such a simple idea, but it changes everything. Check out this episode of the Learning Future to find out more.
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Santiago at the GameChangers podcast
The old game is schooling. The new game is learning. Check out my three part conversation with Phil Cummings at Series Six of Gamechangers.
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Remembering Richard Elmore.
My dear mentor and friend Richard Elmore died peacefully and unexpectedly in February this year. This short piece is my humble tribute to his immense legacy.
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