Models in Jamaican schools

MANDEVILLE, JAMAICA Congress WBN (C-WBN) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Jamaica Independent Schools Association (JISA), to address eroding values in its schools by implementing C-WBN’s models for values-based education. JISA covers over 100,000 students in private primary and secondary schools across Jamaica.

Sitting (from left): Doreen Morrison, President of JISA, Dr. Noel Woodroffe, President of C-WBN
Standing (from left): Pastor Clifford Senior, Vice President of JISA, Dr. Marlon Jameson, Executive Director of Congress WBN

The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), signed on Tuesday, February 5 at the Belair School in Mandeville, Jamaica, follows C-WBN’s recent MOU with the Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) to support values-based education and indigenous content for the Caribbean.

Congress WBN is an international non-profit organization which has successfully implemented values-based curricula and innovative education delivery models.

Dr. Noel Woodroffe, founder and President of C-WBN, speaking at the signing ceremony said, “Education is the bedrock of any nation’s future. Our global experience in building values-based education models and approaches allows us to come alongside an organization like JISA and contribute to national development”,

Dr. Woodroffe assured the JISA school principals and administrators gathered to witness the historic MOU signing that Congress WBN would utilize its global network of expertise and resources to support JISA in the development of values-based education initiatives.

Doreen Morrison, the President of JISA described the collaboration as “an urgent initiative.”  Ms. Morrison stated, “The fall in morals and decency in our schools requires urgent action. We want to trigger a transformation in our schools that will impact the entire educational system in Jamaica”, says Morrison, who is the principal of Portland High in eastern Jamaica.

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ess WBN MOU lays the pla

tform for the commencement of pilot programmes on values-based education in a number of JISA schools.  The new collaborative partnership will govern the development and delivery of content for values-based education development training, specifically tailored for JISA’s member principals, teachers and administrators.

Background

JISA made its decision to collaborate with C-WBN after a fact-finding mission to the C-WBN-operated NorthGate College in Trinidad and Tobago last October. “We wanted to get a first-hand view of the structures and patterns which were in place at NorthGate College, and to discover how it operated as a values-based educational institution”, noted Ms. Morrison, who led a 7-member JISA delegation comprising Wesley Boynes, President Elect of JISA, Sylvester O’Gilvie, Immediate, Past President, Pastor Clifford Senior, Vice-President, Maureen Marshall, Secretary, Donna Lowe, Treasurer and Wayne Robinson, Executive Member.

The team was impressed with what they observed at NorthGate College along with other independent school representatives from Nigeria and Kenya who were visiting the school for the same objectives. “It was a unique time of international connections”, said Wayne Robinson, the Director of

Quality Academics on Ardenne Road. “We were amazed at how the NorthGate College culture was strategically shaped upon the principles and values, resulting in an atmosphere of high discipline and the absence of deviant behavior among the student body”, said Robinson.

Rev. Sylvester O’Gilvie of the Undergrad School in Montego Bay, who first learnt of NorthGate College after attending the launch of Northgate High School in Ocho Rios, described the impact of what he had heard to the JISA Board. This led JISA visiting NorthGate College in Trinidad. “We gained valuable insight into how NorthGate College approached the development of the male students. In spite of the fact that most of the teachers were female, one could see that there was a deliberately designed male empowerment process embodied in a Manhood Charter, which was in fact changing and developing the lives of the boys who attended the College”, remarked Rev. O’Gilvie.

“This was one of the more interesting and compelling features, which was discovered at NorthGate College in light of the challenges with the male students here in Jamaica”, he added.

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The BrightPath team is being led by C-WBN’s Chief Knowledge Officer, Bevil Wooding, GCT Sector co-leader and executive director of BrightPath. He will be working with PasifikaNEXUS, a local advocacy group compromising members from KCN communities in Fiji and New Zealand.

The teams will deliver training in digital content creation, Internet Governance and mobile application development.  Attendees will learn how to make innovative use of Internet and mobile technologies to contribute to development of local content. The forum will also be used to promote collaboration between youth and other emerging leaders across the Pacific region.  Emphasis will be placed on using technology to make a positive impact on society.

The event will engage Pacific youth, students, young professionals, and emerging leaders. The program employs GCT technology training models that have been successfully used in the Caribbean and United States. The event also includes a special track on Women in ICT to encourage greater participation by girls in the technology sector.

The BrightPath team will also be meeting with policy makers to look at practical ways to strengthen critical Internet infrastructure and improve broadband access in the region.

Other collaborators supporting this event include the Pacific Internet Society Chapter (PACiNET) and the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs (EAP), State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) and U.S. Embassy Suva.

The event will be held at the University of South Pacific in Suva, Fiji from November 26-30, 2012 and can be followed online on Facebook and on Twitter using hashtag #TechCamp.

For more information about the Youth TechCamp Fiji, visit www.brightpathfoundation.org.

About BrightPath

BrightPath Foundation is an international non-profit organization dedicated to building local capacity through values-based technology training, educational programs and policy support initiatives. BrightPath has offices in the US, Caribbean and UK. It draws upon a global pool of resources

and expertise from Congress WBN, a global non-profit focused on values-based nations development initiatives.

Web:   www.brightpathfoundation.org

Twitter: @brightpathorg

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PORT-OF-SPAIN, 27-Mar 2012 – The Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) on Tuesday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Congress WBN (C-WBN) to provide values-based leadership and promote indigenous ICT development in education in the Caribbean.

Dr. Didacus Jules, Registrar of CXC, signed on behalf of Council while Dr. Noel Woodroffe, Founder and President of Congress WBN, signed for his organisation at a brief ceremony at the Marriott Hotel in Port of Spain. Mr. Bevil Wooding, Chief Knowledge Officer of C-WBN and Mr. Anderson Marshall, Director of Corporate Services at CXC also participated in the ceremony.

Dr. Jules said the partnership will create new opportunities to develop a strong indigenous capacity for ICT development infused with ethical principles throughout the Caribbean.

“CXC’s vision is to raise the quality of education

in the Caribbean by strengthening leadership capacity and equipping educators to contribute more meaningfully to regional development,” Dr. Jules explained.

Dr. Woodroffe said the issue of leadership in the Caribbean had been a challenge which needed to be addressed to improve on institutional leadership.

He said his organisation had been responding to the contemporary needs for leadership and human capital development in the educational sector by bringing proven values-based principles and development models from successful intervention in organisations and institutions around the world.

“The partnership seeks to closely collaborate to engage and equip education stakeholders across the Caribbean to enhance and create the enabling climates to improve on leadership on the individual and corporate level,” Dr. Woodroffe stated.

Both organizations expressed that the MOU reflects their belief that cooperative efforts and exchanges in education between the two organizations will redound positively to the development of the region.

Information and communications technology will be a priority area under the MOU.

According to Dr. Jules, “To provide our children with a good education, we need teachers and programme developers and leaders working together to deliver a holistic and future-oriented curriculum. We are excited about the prospects this MOU affords us to leverage the innovative work C-WBN has been doing using ICT to create indigenous content, mobile apps and special training programs.”

C-WBN’s Chief Knowledge Officer, Mr. Bevil Wooding, who also signed the MOU, added “`Under this agreement we will be collaborating closely with CXC to incorporate Information and Communication technology into every dimension of the education delivery process.”

Dr. Jules reiterated CXC’s commitment to forging new strategic partnerships regionally and internationally to better position the organization to respond to the rapidly changing educational landscape.

“Together we are aiming to provide leaders tools and knowledge needed to embark on initiatives that encourage greater innovation and more collaborative approaches to learning and knowledge development. CXC’s collaboration with C-WBN is part of our continuing effort to provide the best possible secondary education for our region’s children.”

About CXC:

The Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) is the leading provider of examinations for secondary schools in the Caribbean; providing a suite of examinations to 16 English-speaking territories and some of the Dutch-speaking islands. Established in 1972, CXC offered its first examinations for the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) in 1979. Nineteen years later, in 1998 CXC introduced the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE). Over the last three years, CXC introduced the Caribbean Certificate of Secondary Level Competence (CCSLC) and the Caribbean Vocational Qualification (CVQ) to cater to students with a wider range of abilities. CXC has two operational centres, the Headquarters located in Barbados, which is headed by the Registrar and Western Zone Office located in Jamaica, headed by the Pro Registrar.

For further information, please contact Sam Cleveland, CXC Public Information Officer, (246) 227 1892 or via e-mail at CSam@cxc.org

About Congress WBN:

Congress WBN (C-WBN) is a faith-based, non-profit organization focused on effecting human, social and national transformation through values-based development initiatives. It was founded in Trinidad and Tobago in 1993 in now has operations in over 85 nations through networks of educational institutions, businesses, national leaders, students and professionals. Its main administrative offices are located in St Joseph, Trinidad and Tobago; and London, UK.

For further information, please contact Denise Benjamin, Director Administration, (868) 663 5673 or via e-mail at cwbn@congresswbn.org

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app. The achievement is even more remarkable considering that most of them had no p

rior programming experience.

The youngsters ranging in age from 12 to 21, many fresh out of their end of term school exams, took part in the special training hosted conducted by BrightPath Foundation (an initiative of Congress WBN’s Global Communications & Technology (GCT). Bevil Wooding, Chief Knowledge Officer of Congress WBN and Stephen Lee, a senior GCT Team Lead facilitated the training. The training was hosted by the Antigua-based non-profit, Precise Development Foundation.

Wooding shared “The sessions were highly interactive with lots of questions and feedback on how technology is impacting at the personal, corporate and global level. The workshop left everyone with new perspectives on mobile, technology, Congress WBN.”

Wingrove Spencer, Founder of Precise Development Foundation agreed, saying “The experience with the youth of our community has validated our conviction that our young people are filled with the talent, creativity and discipline to define a new future for our country. They can embrace their correct position as producers and not mere consumers in the digital age.”

Spencer added, “We were quite pleased to be able to partner with the BrightPath Foundation for this historic event. Their team did a splendid job in presenting the material to the youth in a way that was engaging and fun.”

The youth were able to identify wrong self-concept, low self-esteem and inaccurate valuing of their own ideas, interests and perspectives as factors that impeded their ability to contribute. They uncovered wrong ways of thinking that had to be discarded before they could take their rightful place as content producers in their local community, in Antigua and Barbuda and for the wider Congress.

At the end of the workshop some of the comments from participants were:

“This was fantastic! At first I thought it was going to be hard, but the facilitators really made it easy. I can’t wait to get together with my friends to start making our own apps.” Tara

“It was about collaboration and agreement, about how we become one.” Mark

“The sessions really helped us to understand that even though we are youths we have something of value to share with others.” Onecia

BrightPath Foundation is an initiative of Congress WBN, with a mandate to deliver values-based technology and digital content training to youth, communities and governments around the world.

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This seminar followed from ATS1 which was held in June 2011. EMPOWER ATS2 took place at the Anapausis Conference Centre in St. Augustine, Trinidad from 8:30 to noon local time.

The title of the seminar indicated the overarching strategic objective which is to both activate and to train Congress members for effective function within the EMPOWER sector.

The specific objectives of ATS2 are:

• To bring members into a clear understanding of Congress WBN as our macro-context for building projects
• To describe the activation and training roadmap ahead
• To expound and further develop EMPOWER’s building philosophy and principles.

The meeting will not be streamed to other locations. However, 2012 will see the preparation and dissemination of material around our world, as well as scheduled seminars in specific locations.

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C-WBN is a faith-based non-profit birthed in Trinidad and Tobago in 2004, with operations in over 90 countries. C-WBN initiatives span networks of professional groups, educational institutions, businesses, churches,

individual national leaders, university students, and global technology initiatives.

The St Augustine Campus of The University of the West Indies is the venue for the five-day meeting of leaders from all eight Sectors of C-WBN operations. The event brings together participants from Trinidad & Tobago, Antigua & Barbuda, Australia, Barbados, Belgium, Belize, Canada, Côte d’Ivoire, DR Congo, England, Ethiopia, France, Ghana, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Kenya, Martinique, Mauritius, Mexico, New Zealand, Nigeria, Singapore, South Africa, St. Kitts & Nevis, St. Lucia, Switzerland, United States, Wales, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

Dr. Noel Woodroffe, Founder and President of Congress WBN, has described this year’s IAE as “an historic milestone” for his organisation.

For more information about C-WBN Intensive Apostolic Encounter 2011, join Congress WBN on facebook, follow @CongressWBN on twitter or tune in to www.CanopyRadio.com.

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KINGSTON, Jamaica – “If you are planning for a year, plant rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; but if you are planning for eternity, plant people.”

In quoting this Chinese proverb, Senator Arthur Williams, Jamaican Minister in the Office of the Cabinet, set the context for the

formal launch of the Jamaican Chapter of the Global Leadership Interlink (GLI). GLI is an international non-profit organization promoting values-based leadership and ethical nations-development. Jamaica is the now latest country to join GLI’s network thousands of professionals and university students spread across the globe.

Coming at a time when the nation is about to institute nationwide reforms to its

public service, the launch of GLI’s Jamaica Chapter is expected to establish a new standard for professionalism in the largest English-speaking island in the Caribbean. Senator Williams quoted Jamaican Prime Minister Bruce Golding’s rationale for the ongoing effort to transform the public service: “Much of our Public Sector is governed by a structure and a culture that we inherited from the Colonial era. Efficient operations require a flatter structure and the joining of authority to accountability. It requires both a structural and a cultural change.”

“We will need leadership in every sector of society,” Senator Williams added.

His words would not have fallen on deaf ears. The composition of the gathering at the GLI launch—some 400 people, including Government officials, businessmen and professionals—signaled the strong potential for broad-based partnerships in future national development initiatives. In fact, Minister Williams, who has responsibility for the Jamaican Public Service, explicitly welcomed the arrival of GLI in the context of his Government’s commitment to build a dynamic social compact with the private sector, organised labour and civil society.

The keynote address at the high-profile launch was delivered by Dr. Noel Woodroffe, President and Founder of Congress WBN, the parent organization of GLI. Congress WBN is a Caribbean-birthed non-profit with operations in over 90 countries focused on values-based leadership development and community empowerment. Dr. Woodroffe profiled GLI as a timely response to PM Golding’s cry for a radical shift in national leadership standards and practices.

“Over the last two decades, we have discovered that powerful and effective leadership is the master key to national and regional transformation. GLI is the Sector of Congress WBN in which we build leaders of all ages and network them into a vast body for global collaboration, with the intent to bring beneficial impact upon their lives, their families, their communities, the institutions that they run and, ultimately, the countries in which they reside. This is the attitudinal and the philosophical context of the Global Leadership Interlink,” Dr. Woodroffe said.

Since its inception in Trinidad and Tobago in 2001, GLI has grown to over 40 chapters in over 30 nations. Developmental work on the GLI Jamaica Chapter has been in progress over the past five years and the Chapter already boasts some 117 members. Speaking on behalf of the newly launched Chapter, Mark Thomas, Director of GLI Jamaica, extended a hand of partnership to Senator Williams, saying, “GLI is about advancing Jamaica.”

Thomas, a media and corporate communications specialist, heads the GLI Jamaica leadership team, which includes Christopher Smith, a civil engineer and Construction Project Manager; Saani Fong, an Attorney-at-Law working in the Ministry of Health’s National HIV/AIDS Programme; and Tracey-Ann Thomas, a Human Resource professional.

GLI Global Director, Dr. Farid Youssef, a Lecturer in the Faculty of Medical Sciences at The University of the West Indies (UWI), described why GLI was different from other professional associations.

“While professional organisations gather around their area of core competency, GLI is unique because we gather professionals and students around a core set of values,” explained Dr. Youssef, who heads the GLI Global Leadership Team with Dr. Graham King and Mr. Omo Igiehon.

Youssef highlighted equity, justice, integrity, accountability, collaboration, service and excellence as core values of GLI: “In our experience, we have seen these values find agreement in every corner of the earth regardless of ethnicity, socioeconomic class or religious expression.”

The launch was truly a global event, with GLI members from around the world following the launch via a real time internet broadcast of proceedings at the Courtleigh Hotel and live-blog on Twitter and Facebook. Leaders of GLI Chapters from Fiji, New Zealand, USA, South Africa, Antigua and the UK also delivered greetings to their new Jamaican counterparts via video.

Dr. Woodroffe, in describing his vision for the new Chapter, declared, “We seek to partner with the Jamaican people to move the nation forward as we are doing elsewhere across the earth. The time is ripe and the nations are looking for new values-based leadership models to chart a new course into the future.”

For more information, visit www.glinetwork.org, join Global Leadership Interlink on Facebook, follow GLI on Twitter, e-mail info@glijamaica.org, or contact Mark Thomas at +876 815 8025 or Fara Ebanks at +876 631 7534.

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Global Leadership Interlink (GLI), an international network of professionals and university students committed to promoting values-based leadership and ethical nation development initiatives, is launching its operations in Jamaica this week.

Several Jamaican government officials and over 300 professionals, businessmen and university students will converge on the Courtleigh Auditorium in the capital city of Kingston on the evening of Thursday July 7 for the GLI Jamaica Chapter launch ceremony.

The event is expected to make a resounding statement for a new standard of professionalism in the largest English-speaking island in the Caribbean. It will be streamed live from Jamaica to an international audience.

The birth of GLI in Jamaica comes at a time when the nation is about to institute nationwide reforms to transform its public service to achieve greater productivity and cost efficiencies.

Senator Arthur Williams, newly appointed Minister without Portfolio in the Office of the Cabinet, who has responsibility for the Public Service, will speak on the Government’s commitment to a Partnership for Transformation Initiative that seeks to build a dynamic social compact with the private sector, organised labour and civil society.

The GLI Jamaica Launch will feature a keynote address by Dr. Noel Woodroffe, the President and Founder of Congress WBN, the parent organization of GLI.

Dr Woodroffe is a globally recognized leadership development specialist, who has facilitated numerous leadership training, organizational transformation and education-based initiatives with governments and organisations across the globe.

Developmental work on the Jamaica Chapter has been in progress in earnest over the past

five years and the Jamaica Chapter currently boasts some 117 core members.

The GLI Jamaica leadership team comprises Mark Thomas, a media and corporate communications specialist currently serving in the public sector; Christopher Smith, a civil engineer and Construction Project Manager; Saani Fong, an attorney-at-law working in the Ministry of Health’s National HIV/AIDS Programme; and Tracey-Ann Thomas, the Group HR Manager of a leading Jamaican manufacturing entity.

GLI is a professional network that spans some 21 countries around the world.

The GLI Global Director, Dr Farid Youssef, is an Executive Director of Congress WBN and a Lecturer in the Faculty of Medical Sciences at the University of the West Indies (UWI), St. Augustine. He heads the GLI Strategic Leadership Team, which includes Dr Graham King and Omo Igiehon.

“In Congress WBN, we believe that righteousness exalts a nation. This means that national transformation can only happen when individuals undergo a process of change at the personal level,” said Dr. Youssef.

“Therefore true change starts on the inside and works its way outwards – this is true both on the individual and corporate level. Congress WBN is

focused on effecting individual as well as national transformation. And we are directed by a God-ordained mandate and a genuine commitment to unbreachable ethical principles rooted in the values of the Kingdom of God,” he added.

Dr King underscored the long-term significance of the GLI Jamaica launch: “This launch is an outworking of the GLI tagline, which is ‘Determining the destiny of nations’. Our tagline represents the commitment of Congress WBN to impact human development at every stage of life,” King said.

King is an Executive Director of Congress WBN and a Chartered Engineer from the UK. He has worked extensively in the automotive industry and currently lectures in Mechanical Engineering at the UWI St. Augustine Campus.

For his part, Omo Igiehon believes the launch represents a significant moment in the formation of a broad-based partnership with every sector of Jamaican national leadership. “This Jamaican initiative could become a pattern for the formation of similar partnerships with other countries across the globe”, Igiehon says.

Igiehon is a business consultant and engineer born in West Africa, of Nigerian and Jamaican parentage residing in the Washington DC metro area.

For more information, join GLI on Facebook, follow GLI on Twitter or visit the official website at www.glinetwork.org. Or call Mark Thomas at +876 815 8025 or Fara Ebanks, +876 631 7534, or e-mail info@glijamaica.org.

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Members of Congress WBN from across the globe will gather at in Trinidad, West Indies in July as Congress WBN will be hosting the Intensive Apostolic Encounter (IAE 2011) from July 23-29.

The 5-day seminar will prove to be an i

ntense time. About 250 members of primary and secondary leadership of Congress WBN will gather for this important meeting, which will aim to establish a correct understanding and environment out of which all functions and operations must flow.

The sense of care, urgency and effort outlined at the Global Congress Leadership Gathering earlier this year sets the context for IAE 2011 which will once again see a representative body of our wider Congress leadership gather in one location. Also at this year’s IAE, the video taping of the Representation series will be done live. This will be the second block of teachings to be delivered to the entire Congress later this year as part of our movement in 2011 into 2012.

Dr. Noel Woodroffe

About Congress WBN

Congress WBN (C-WBN) is a unique, global, faith-based organisation headquartered in Trinidad & Tobago. The Congress is focused on effecting human, social and national transformation

through the propagation of clearly defined moral, ethical, and values-based principles, patterns, and approaches. It is composed of eight sectors of strategic global initiatives involving networks of professional groups, educational institutions, businesses, churches, individual national leaders, university students, and global technology initiatives.

About C-WBN Intensive Apostolic Encounter 2011

The Congress WBN IAE 2011 is by invitation only and will run from July 23-29, 2011 and will be held at The University of the West Indies (UWI), St Augustine in Trinidad and Tobago.

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The 5-day seminar will prove to be an intense time. The seminar is weighted towards Philosophy & Architecture within the first two days, before moving towards an emphasis on Operations & Functionality; this in order to first establish a correct understanding and environment out of which all function and operations must flow.

“We have planned a curriculum that is concentrated although we will be flexible. In addition to the teaching, there will

be various types of practicums, including case studies, analysis of prophetic ministry, small group discussions, and activations which will provide times for participation and application of principles among all delegates.”

Dr. Noel Woodroffe

Among the objectives of the seminar are:-

• To discover together a new understanding of the prophetic
• To create a forum for the identification of Apprentice Prophets and Prophetic Functionaries.
• To activate a process that will lead towards the building of a cadre of competent prophets within Congress WBN.
• To make clear the architecture of the new prophetic dimension within the re-defined parameters of Kingdom Community and the heightened maturity of

  all believers

• Envision participants on the scope of prophetic operations for effective building within C-WBN.
• Develop genuine personal connections and foster relational strength.

About Global Insight Services

The Global Insight Services (GIS) sector of Congress WBN delivers Insight Services to Governments, Businesses, Institutions, Churches and Individual national leaders in the areas of trend-analysis, future-casting and insightful counseling.

Second Definitive Training Module Event Information

The Second Definitive Training Module is by invitation only and will run from June 13-17, 2011 and will be held at the Wyndham Garden Hotel near the Altanta airport.

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