The Minister of Education, Universities, Culture and Sports of the Canary Islands, Manuela Armas, toured the facilities of the Teacher Training Center (CEP) of Lanzarote on the morning of Friday, March 19, where, thanks to the conversion of classrooms in disuse, the current management team has designed three novel spaces aimed at promoting equality, pedagogical innovation and sustainability.
Accompanied by the General Director of Planning, Innovation and Quality, Gregorio Cabrera, the director of the CEP, Flor Alonso, the Island Director of Education, Celeste Callero, and the director of the General State Administration, Juan Ramón Pérez, the Minister visited the new photovoltaic park located on the roof of the building, with the capacity to generate 10 KW of power for self-consumption, which will be shared with the adjacent Official Language School. In addition, through a screen you can check the consumption and production of the plant in real time, which favors energy saving actions.
The park is complemented by the launch of two electric vehicle charging points in the parking area, where up to four cars can be connected simultaneously.

Next, the delegation accessed the Creative Space, a proposal to adapt traditional classrooms inspired by the classroom model of the future (Future Classroom Lab) of the European SchoolNet. It is a reconfigurable room, organized in areas of interaction, research, development, exchange, creation and presentation -with special attention to pedagogical innovation and the curricular integration of technology- where teachers can go with their students and experience new forms of teaching.
Co-educational Space
The tour of the CEP facilities ended in the Co-educational Space “María Morales Topham”, dedicated to this teacher, who published the first book of poetry signed by a woman in Lanzarote. This meeting area for the Zonal Equality Agents and coordinating persons of the Equality and Affective-Sexual and Gender Education axis, is now expanded with the exhibition of materials, the organization of activities and exchange of good practices to create schools united in the construction of equality. The classroom is divided into three areas: gender violence prevention, affective-sexual education and resources for co-education.
The Minister highlighted this tribute to the teacher and poet María Morales Topham, as “a necessary action of visibility and recognition”. “I remember her well, we were neighbors on Fajardo Street, every afternoon, the melodies of her piano classes could be heard; from now on, María Morales will come out of anonymity and receive the consideration that corresponds to her, on her island and among her guild, becoming an example of overcoming”, she assured. “We must not forget that being a woman and studying away from home, as she did in Tenerife, was not something simple,” added Manuela Armas.
The Lanzarote native was a teacher of Music, English and French, taught classes at the Arrecife Secondary Education Institute, of which she was also secretary, and in 1971 published the first collection of poems published on that island by a woman, entitled “Blanca sencillez”.