The IES Altavista has been awarded the Vicente Ferrer National Award 2022, a recognition granted by the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation, which recognizes those centers that have carried out educational actions or pedagogical proposals in order to incite, promote and raise awareness of the active participation of students with the 2030 Agenda.
The educational center from Lanzarote has been one of the 15 Spanish educational centers recognized by the institution after presenting the project "Level programming to improve educational success". This is a coordination strategy of the teaching staff to strengthen the center as a safe, healthy, welcoming and inclusive environment, where to teach, learn and live with oneself, in society and with the planet.
This organization pursues the design of joint quarterly projects of the various subjects of the level, as well as the detection of the main barriers that prevent student learning, to find solutions together with families.
The initiative uses learning linked to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as training tools to improve school success and fight against the greatest cause of poverty and social exclusion: school dropout. This educational practice began during the 2020-21 academic year at the 1st year of ESO level and has been extended from 1st to 3rd year of ESO in the current academic period.
Another Canary Islands center has also received the award
The CEIP Camino Largo, a center on the island of Tenerife, has obtained this award thanks to its project "Solidarity and Sustainability", in which they have gathered all the actions linked to these two values, in which the center was already involved. Among the set of actions, the close relationship that its students maintain with the local home for the elderly stands out, through weekly reading and accompaniment visits, delivery of Christmas gifts or shared excursions, among other intergenerational activities.
Likewise, the school maintains its qualification as a "0 waste center" thanks to the collaboration of families, who have replaced single-use containers, tetrabriks and plastics from breakfasts with canteens and lunch boxes, with the consequent saving of these materials
