Committee for Happiness

The Future of Education. Saved the date - 24 September Ralph Brenner

Thank you sir. It’s an honor to serve as a Trustee on the Board of Teachers Empowerment Platform. We are so looking forward to serving our shared mission of motivated, happy and empowered educators in Uganda and efforts to scale our work globally.

TEP partners with Committee for Happiness.

We are thrilled to announce our new partnership with Committee For Happiness, a collaboration of professionals from around the world who have experienced success in their primary fields and have now joined forces to turn their collective experience and unique paths happiness into a better world. To that end, the Committee's founder and CEO, Mr. Ralph Brenner has joined TEP's Board of Trustees, to assist with development and expansion. TEP's mission of empowering teachers to empower Uganda is in sync with the Committee's mission to expand mindfulness, happiness, gratitude social emotional learning and wonderment awareness activities in classrooms world over.
"We are excited to expand our programs and operations into Uganda, East Africa and MENA to impact the lives of over two hundred teachers and more that thirty million school children. We envision a world of happier teachers who are empowered and motivated to educate the next generation of global citizens," Mr. Brenner explained.
Francis Bizoza, the TEP team leader expressed gratitude and welcomed the alliance.
"Our vision as TEP is a society with motivated, passionate and multi skilled teachers. It is great to get into partnership with Committee For Happiness, to tap into their expertise to offer more support to Ugandan teachers. I also wish to warmly welcome Mr Ralph Brenner to our Board of Trustees and look forward to working closely with him to impact the teachers in Uganda."

Committee for Happiness

World Education Summit- Innovation in Education session.

In this session on innovation in education and challenges teachers and administrators face, I talk about how teaching is akin to water. Water has humility. You can say what you need to about it and it will respond as water does. Likewise, teachers need great humility. They face challenges every day and must maintain their humility.

Secondly, teachers are presented with unique challenges from children, admins, parents, and the community. Like water, when a huge rock is dropped in a stream, water will find a path around it and continue on with its mission...to flow forward. Teachers must find ways to deal with rocks dropped in their path. Administration, don’t drop rocks on your teachers! Drop pebbles not rocks. Help teachers flow and children will benefit.

Thirdly, like water that can take many forms, liquid water, solid ice, or steam, water adapts. Teachers must adapt as well. Every child is different and presents unique opportunities.

Lastly, water quenches thirst and helps us live and thrive.

Teaching is like water.