Pyotr Polozhevets: currently in Russia there are 177 Personality Potential Development Centers across 33 regions

The opening ceremony of the Convention and the plenary session took place on October 7. The plenary session was attended by Alexander Anashchenko, Chairman of the Volga-Vyatka Bank of Sberbank,

Rano Kutanova, Head of the Center for Advanced Teacher Training and Inclusive Education at the Kyrgyz National University named after J. Balasagyn (KNU), Almagul Mukhamedkhanova, Chief Researcher of the Institute for Continuous Education (ICE), Mark Sartan, Director of the AENPO School 800, and Dmitry Sizarev, Head of the Personality Potential Development Program at the Investment in the Future Charitable Foundation.

Pyotr Polozhevets, Executive Director of the Investment in the Future Charitable Foundation, moderated the Session. In his opening speech, Pyotr Polozhevets highlighted the impressive growth in the number of the PPD Centers as well as active dissemination and promotion of practices and methodologies introduced by the Personality Potential Development Program. He emphasized that the Foundation’s methodologies aimed at personality potential development are included in the list of top recommendations by international organizations, such as UNESCO and UNICEF. This indicates that Russian initiatives in personality potential development are internationally supported and recognized.

Dmitry Sizarev, Head of the Personality Potential Development Program, introduced the research brochures prepared by MCU and the Investment in the Future Charitable Foundation as a part of the “Priority 2030” strategic academic leadership project. The brochure “How can teachers advance to help students feel happy and successful?” includes the research results involving over 2500 teachers from 30 regions of Russia.

Another brochure “What contributes to personal development and well-being of students?” explores the results of the Social-Emotional Development of Children and Personality Potential Development programs across 30 Russian regions for the period from 2017 to 2023.

The All-Russian Convention of the PPD Centers is the key annual event of the Developing Environment Program. The PPD Center Network is a community of like-minded individuals who share the vision of creating a personality-developmental educational environment and implementing it into their work. This year the Convention was attended by more than 400 teachers and directors from 177 schools and kindergartens from 33 Russian regions, representatives from institutes of education development, pedagogical colleges and universities, and international guests from Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan.

Participants of the Convention focused on creating cross-regional pedagogical communities and supporting their educational initiatives throughout the current academic year. During the planned activities the participants had an opportunity to share views and achievements in the implementation of the personality potential development concept within educational institutions across different Russian regions. Another focal point of the Convention was the opportunity to pass on the initiative to regions that will have the opportunity to launch new joint projects implementing the methodologies on personality potential development.

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Pyotr Polozhevets Executive Director of the Investment in the Future Charitable Foundation

“We have opened the III All-Russian Convention of the PPD Centers. In nine months since the II Convention in Kaluga, 55 more PPD Centers have joined us. Currently, there are 177 Centers across 33 Russian regions, and all of them are represented at our Convention. We continue to grow internationally and that is why today we are welcoming colleagues from Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan. They will participate in all the sessions and share the results of the joint implementation of the Program which was launched 8 years ago in Russia.

Alexander Anashchenko Chairman of the Volga-Vyatka Bank of Sberbank

“Sberbank is interested in educational projects not because schoolchildren and students are our potential clients, but because they are the future of Russia. It is crucial for every kid to have maximum opportunities for their development, development of their potential, and, subsequently, personality development letting children evolve into proactive members of society. With that in mind teachers in the PPD Centers help children to master techniques of dealing with unconventional tasks, make independent decisions, apply creative and critical thinking, and acquire flexible systematic imagination.