At the second meeting of Council for Transformation Measures at Organization for Educational Research and Planning (OERP), Deputy Minister of Education, Dr. Hassan Maleki, stressed that transformation begins with the change of attitudes.

According to Public Relations and International Affairs Office at OERP, the meeting chaired by Dr. Maleki, was attended by a group of managers and consultants.

Here, a report on the textbooks encryption (QR code) as well as the curriculum groups measures in compiling curriculum guidelines was presented.

Coincided with the beginning of Research Week, an electronic curriculum operational model was unveiled by Organization for Educational Research and Planning (OERP) on December 16.

According to Public Relations and International Affairs Office at the organization, the model has been provided as a joint venture by Bureau of Educational Technology and Publications at OERP and Allameh Tabatabaei university. 

Stressing the significance of research, Dr. Hassan Maleki, Deputy Minister and Head of Organization for Educational Research and Planning (OERP), stated, "The Relationship between research and curriculum is similar to the liaison between land and seeds."

According to Public Relation and International Affairs Office at OERP, the commemoration ceremony of Research Week was held in the Shahid Salimi Jahromi hall on Wednesday, December 16. It was reported to be attended by Dr. Maleki, as well as the OERP deputies and managers.

COVID-related school closures risk pushing an additional 72 million primary school aged children into learning poverty—meaning that they are unable to read and understand a simple text by age 10—according to two new World Bank reports released today. The reports outline a new vision for learning and the investments and policies, including on education technology, that countries can implement today to realize this vision. 

A book-reader application dubbed Buffet has been produced and provided by School Publishing House so that its audience can have access to electronic and audio-books, reported Public Relations and International Affairs Office at OERP.

Nowadays, anything, even reading a book without carrying it or flipping through it, can be done by a cellphone.

The Legend of Four Brothers has been published by School Publishing House, a unit of Office of Bureau of Educational Technology and Publications.

The book narrates an Iranian legend about four brothers whose father addresses them at the last moments of his life, reported Public Relations and International Affairs Office at Organization for Educational Research and Planning (OERP).

The 4th issue of Electronic Medium has been published by Organization for Educational Research and Planning (OERP).

The future of Roshd Network is promising; however, this educational platform is sometimes less welcome by students, teachers and families.

Roshd, launched nearly three decades ago, is known as an educational, training and electronic platform that enjoys the maximum capacities of information technology, Public Relations and International Affairs Office at Organization for Educational Research and Planning reported.

The National Network of Iranian Schools (Roshd Network) is regarded as one of the most crucial transformational tools for educating which has taken many years to reach the present level, Public Relations and International Affairs Office at Organization for Educational Research and Planning (OERP) reported.

Using new technologies such as the Internet and cyberspace, Roshd Network is like an educational package that aids the Iranian educational system to strengthen, complete and deepen all educational programs and school-related activities.

"The Executive Instruction of Transformation Package: Improving BOOM’s Implementation Quality" was communicated to the provincial departments of Ministry of Education. The instruction has been signed by Deputy of Minister of Education and Head of Organization for Educational Research and Planning (OERP), Dr. Hassan Maleki.

Being developed by The Boom Governing Council in 8 paragraphs, the circular’s full text is as follows:

Introduction:

Dr. Azim Mohebbi, Secretary of the Special School Program known as BOOM, claims that this project gives full authority to schools in curriculum planning, hence, reducing the focus on the country's education planning system.

Roshd Network is a diamond method for education as well as interaction between students, teachers and families.

According to Public Relations and International Affairs Office at Organization for Educational Research and Planning (OERP), the National Network of Iranian Schools (Roshd Network) is regarded as one of the most crucial transformational tools for educating which has taken many years to reach the present level.

Call for the 50th international festival of scientific, educational and training movies has been announced.

According to Public Relations and International Affairs Office at Organization for Educational Research and Planning (OERP), the festival will be set up by the slogan, “To increase the educational process quality by diversifying learning environments.”

If there was ever a year to appreciate teachers, it is 2020 and World Teacher's Day, held annually on October 5, is a great opportunity to do that.

Amid a global pandemic, teachers make sure no one is left behind as they help students adjust to distance learning and adapt to Covid-19 in classrooms.

They have, in fact, indicated the required leadership and innovation to ensure that learning never stops.

On the educational conditions of students with specific needs, specifically hearing-impaired ones during the COVID-19 era, Head of Department of Exceptional Education in Tehran, Shahnaz Karimi, said, “There is no problem in this regard as education has commenced in the cyberspace.”

“Due to particular circumstances, these students were already active in the cyberspace; hence, we are experienced in this domain. However, COVID-19 caused our colleagues to work more in these times.”

A Training workshop on “Rumi’s Favorable Medium Index” was held by Organization of Educational Research and Planning (OERP) on September 29.

According to a report by Public Relations and International Affairs Office at OERP, the workshop was attended by Dr. Mohammad Ibrahim Mohammadi, Director General at Bureau for Educational Technology and Publications, Dr. Maleki, Head of OERP, as well as chief editors and internal managers of Roshd Magazines.

Henceforth, provincial liaisons, as the chief assistants of Artist Teachers Club, will be in charge of running and coordinating filmmaking teachers’ activities.

According to Public Relations and International Affairs Office at Educational Research and Planning Organization (OERP), citing Bureau of Educational Technology and Publications, provincial liaisons of Artist Teachers Club in the filmmaking domain have been identified and approved.

Basij Farhangian Center’s Statement on Insulting Prophet Muhammad by Charlie Hebdo

Basij Farhangian Center issued a statement condemning a French magazine, Charlie Hebdo, for its late insult on Prophet Muhammad.

Head of OERP: School Textbooks Are Media

Deputy Minister and Head of Organization for Educational Research and Planning (OERP) stressed that a school textbook is not solely a means for education and merely containing a set of data, but is also a medium featuring pedagogical aspects.

The Organization for Educational Research and Planning has produced educational videos for four different fields of Technical and Vocational training for the Corona outbreak situation.  

Referring to the Supreme Leader's statement regarding the content of preschools and kindergartens, the Head of the Organization for Educational Research and Planning said: "The responsibility for producing content for this preschools lies with the OERP.”

In line with its revolutionary commitment and mission, the Organization for Educational Research and Planning has prepared and compiled a book entitled "The Collection of Knowledge of the Islamic Revolution and Textbooks", which is a unique collection of its kind.

Ayatollah Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution, delivered a sppech via videoconference with the Minister of Education and other managers in the educational system. The meeting was held on the occasion of the 34th Congress of the Educational System.

Dr. Hassan Maleki told that the organization has developed a ‘mixed strategy’ which aims to prevent and decrease the shortcomings of the educational system in the COVID-19 outbreak.

The secretary of the Special School Program known as BOOM Project said that the implementation of this plan would reduce the focus on the country's education planning system.

Explaining about the BOOM project Dr. Azim Mohebbi said: “Based on this project, schools are allowed to design and implement appropriate programs for students based on their own needs for up to 60 hours of school official time. It means that the design and implementation of these 60-hour programs is entrusted to schools.”

Director of Renewable Energy Department of Niroo Research Institute (NRI) said the institute has defined a new program for the promotion and expansion of the use of renewable energy sources in schools, IRNA reported.

The program titled "Development of Renewable Energy in Schools" has been already started in the NRI’s Renewable Energy Department, Shahriar Bozorgmehri said.

The head of the Organization for Educational Research and Planning announced that more than 60,000 school principals across the country will receive online education in order to better implement the Special School Program known as BOOM.

 “60,000 school principals are to be trained online in their schools to implement Special School Program known as BOOM. In addition, 8 schools from each province that have performed best in the last two years will be introduced.”

The head of the Exceptional Education Organization announced the launch of a special educational channel for exceptional students with 824 sub-channels on the Shad network.

Seyed Javad Hosseini described the features of this channel and its sub-categories as full coverage of the courses of five pre-school, elementary, first secondary, first pre-vocational and second secondary vocational courses.

Mohammad Yaghini, the managing director of the Iranian-Islamic Stationery Association, known as Iran Nevesht noted: Nine years ago, more than 90% of the stationery market was filled with foreign products.

“Now, more than 100 producers are manufacturing Iranian-Islamic stationery items and today we are celebrating the eighth anniversary of forming this association.”

Iran’s stationery market’s annual turnover now is about 60 trillion rials ( $257 million).

Students will go to school on an odd-even plan in the new educational year as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread in the country, Iran’s education minister announced.

All schools in Iran will reopen on September 5, Mohsen Haji Mirzaee said on Wednesday.

He added that students of both urban and rural schools with high population density will be divided into two groups in the new school year, some attending on even days and some on odd days.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said reopening schools in September was a social, economic, and moral imperative.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said reopening schools in September was a social, economic, and moral imperative and insisted they would be able to operate safely despite the ongoing threat from the pandemic.

His comments follow a study earlier this month which warned that Britain risks a second wave of COVID-19 this winter twice as large as the initial outbreak if schools reopening happens without an improved test-and-trace system.

Classes begin online next week for students in Gwinnett County, the biggest school district in Georgia, but officials plan to bring at least some students back to in-person classes by the end of the month.

The plan is raising concerns for some teachers, who are sounding the alarm with protest.

“It seems like standardized test scores matter a whole lot to this county,” protester Brian Westlake said. “But Covid test scores don’t seem to matter enough.”

Dr. Hassan Maleki praised the efforts of the reporters of the Student News Agency, while paying a visit to its office to mark National Journalists' Day.

Dr. Hassan Maleki had a friendly meeting with the managing editor, editor-in chief and the editorial board of Student News Agency, stressing the role that journalists play in order to raise awareness in the soity.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned on Tuesday that the world faces a “generational catastrophe” because of school closures amid the coronavirus pandemic.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned on Tuesday that the world faces a “generational catastrophe” because of school closures amid the coronavirus pandemic and said that getting students safely back to the classroom must be “a top priority.”

 Some 3,700 exceptional Afghan students are studying in Iranian schools, an official with the Ministry of Education has said.

These students are treated the same as Iranian students and are provided with educational, rehabilitation, and physical training services, ISNA quoted Javad Hosseini as saying on Tuesday.

There are around 1,600 schools in Iran special for exceptional students, offering services to more than 82,000 students, he explained.

Iran’s Minister of Education said that in order to solve the problem of dropouts, a Memorandum of Cooperation should be signed between the Ministry of Education and other government agencies.

In a meeting to identify, recruit, educate and maintain children who have dropped out of elementary schools, Mohsen Haji Mirzaei said that one of the brilliant achievements of the Islamic Republic is developing educational opportunities and reducing the educational gap between urban and rural areas, calling it an “important step to promote social justice.”

Millions more children in the U.S. learned Friday that they're unlikely to return to classrooms full time in the fall because of the coronavirus pandemic as death tolls reached new highs.

It came as many states — particularly in the Sunbelt — struggled to cope with the surge and governments worldwide tried to control fresh outbreaks. In a sign of how the virus is galloping around the globe, the World Health Organization reported nearly a quarter-million new infections in a single day.

The Organization of Non-Governmental Schools and Centers and the Development of Public Participation has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Abrar Charitable Society to implement a curriculum for students who have dropped out of school through e-learning distance learning.

Mojtaba Zeyni-Vand, the head of the organization said that the plan called “the Reconciliation with Education” or ABA is a good platform for creating equal educational opportunities.

The online exhibition, which is organized and planned by the Cultural Association of Educational Publishers, will be held in two phases and for two groups.

The first phase is that publishers sell their books in one website at certain time and in the second phase, the publishers are presenting and selling their books in a certain website under different circumstances.

In the first phase, book sales happen on publishers' own sites at the same time; they will determine the circumstances. According to the news, it will start on July 5^th.

The head of the Center for International Affairs and Schools Abroad, said that from the end of July, students from all schools abroad will join the Shad Network. adding that the infrastructure for this purpose has been set.

Gholamreza Karimi told reporters that the schools for next school year will begin in some countries in September, including the UAE and other Arab countries others will open in mid-September. “Currently we don’t know what will happen to the education in future, maybe it will be held online or partly-online;” he added.

A member of the faculty of the Research Institute for Special Needs Children emphasized that the programs of the organization should be reviewed.

“After the Islamic Revolution, good achievements have been made in the field of education of special needs children, but we have not progressed as much as we should, which goes back to two factors: the lack of experts and neglecting these children.”

The scientific secretary of the fifth National Scholastic Festival of Ibn Sina said that the festival will be held online and will start on August 1st.

Stating that the festival will be held for a week from 11 to 17 August this year, Mehdi Rashidi Jahan added: “students from all over the country will present their achievements online; they can take the virtual exams of this festival themselves.”

Adviser to the Minister of Education and the manager of Shaad network pointed out that in order to address the concerns of students’ access to the Shaad network, “a combination of educational options” is on the agenda from October.

“Face-to-face training, educational packages, Shaad network and the TV schools are all presented together; and each of them have a certain share of our new plan” he added.

Speaking at a meeting of the National Task Force for Fighting Coronavirus on Saturday, Dr Hassan Rouhani said that the end of coronavirus is not yet clear and that we must prepare ourselves for a long-term fight against the virus.

Dr. Hassan Maleki, the head of organization for Educational Planning and Research, told journalist in his first press conference that the OERP is focused on providing learning packages rather than textbooks.

“Learning package refers to a set of educational materials and multimedia tools in a particular course that is designed and developed based on specific learning objectives. Usually the learning package contains textbooks, the student workbook, the teacher's guide, the educational videos and other related materials.

In separate letters, President Hassan Rouhani appointed six members of the Council for Organization for Educational Research and Planning.

According to these letters, Hojatoleslam Dr. Seyyed Saeid Ameli, Dr. Gholamali Haddad Adel, Dr. Fakhreddin Danesh Ashtiani, Dr. Mahmoud Mehr Mohammadi, Dr. Ali Zarafshan and Dr. Rezvan Hakimzadeh were appointed as new members of the Council for Organization for Educational Research and Planning.

Hassan Rouhani's letters of appointment read:

The first workshop of managers and experts of the organization for Educational Research and Planning was held after the new head of the organization was introduced; the workshop was called “the model of monotheistic Innatism in the curriculum in the curriculum of education and learning”.

Saying that Corona Virus is not over yet and we have to be ready to tackle this disease in the future, President Hassan Rouhani told the Minister of Education in a telephone conversation that the Education Ministry should be prepared to continue educational programs in the case of another outbreak nest year.

President Rouhani appreciated teachers and Education Ministry’s staff, who managed to continue educations through Corona outbreak and helping that the slogan of “schools are closed but education goes on” come true.

The new head of the Organization for Educational Research and Planning emphasized that employing that national documents is his main motivation to accept this responsibility.

At the meeting of the Board of Directors of the Organization for Educational Research and Planning, Dr. Hassan Maleki, who is recently appointed as the deputy of the Education Minister, appreciated former head of the organization for his efforts.

“I am here to serve the country; anyone who takes responsibility should try to achieve the goals for the education and training.”