First Edition, March 2025
Commonwealth Teachers Group (CTG)
Get to know Cde Beverley Park, CTG Committee Member Beverley Park is one of the two representatives of the North American Caribbean region of the Commonwealth. She is the Director of International Programs at the Canadian Teachers’ Federation (CTF/FCE). She is in her fourth decade as an education professional having started her teaching career in 1981 in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada’s most easterly province. She moved rom the classroom to the District Office after a short
time and there coordinated programming at the regional level.
The next step was to become a program officer (and later Director) at the provincial union: the Newfoundland and Labrador Teachers’ Association. Her career might have ended there, but her many experiences, including her volunteering with the Canadian Teachers’ Federation (CTF/FCE) international program led her to apply for a position there. In 2017 she joined the CTF/FCE’s international team as program. In 2022 she became Director, the role she is in today. Her work, focused on leadership, union capacity building, teacher professionalism, and gender equality has taken her around the globe many times. At the 10th EI World Congress Beverley was presented with the Education International Distinguished Associates Award recognizing the contribution made to the work and development of EI, and the commitment to helping promote and implement the organization’s policies and programmes. “My aspirations for the Commonwealth Teachers’ Group would be for the group to take inspiration from two key documents – the report of the UN High Level Panel on the Teaching Profession and the EI’s Global Status of Teachers report. These documents are excellent in laying out the status of teachers and of the profession, and the state of education in the world. We could delve into the recommendations to better understand them in the countries we represent in the Commonwealth. While we may not be able to take action as a group, we could perhaps identify ways to bring these reports to life in our own jurisdictions or in our regions. I see this year as a learning experience for all of us- an opportunity to build connections, to learn and grow together.”
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