The document announces a two-day event organized by the dia program to celebrate its 15th anniversary and reflect on education. The dia program uses art in the classroom to develop students' intelligence, creativity, and critical thinking. Over 15 years it has impacted classrooms by creating a space for listening, reflection, and human growth. The anniversary event will bring together educators and experts to discuss challenges in education today and how to foster well-being through developing social, emotional and cognitive skills from the classroom to the community.

1. 15th anniversary
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Thinking Education
Dr. Peter M. Senge
Director
Center for Organizational Learning
Dear Mr. Senge:
I am pleased to address you with this special invitation,
The dia program celebrates its 15 year anniversary. In this context we
are organizing a 2-day event to think about education together, on March
2nd and 3rd of 2011.
We are witnesses to historic social transformations. We live in a world very
different from the one in which we grew up. Technology has come to transform
our reality, cultures and society. Continuing industrial expansion worldwide is
creating unsustainable social and ecological imbalances. Cultures tradition-
ally separated by gulfs of history and distance must now co-exist in an ever-
shrinking world. This is the ‘alien” world our children will live in and shape.
The dia program, Development of Intelligence through Art, emerged from the
inspiration to foster quality and innovation in education in our country, the com-
mitment to bring art to schools, and the desire to help develop individual and
collective intelligence, self-knowledge and creativity in students and educa-
tors, so they can contribute to the development and well-being of their com-
munities.
With time, a simple idea - to bring art to the class room and to generate a
group discussion around it - grew with the enthusiasm of teachers and stu-
dents. Talking about what we see and feel, listening to others and constructing
ideas together allowed us to discover the potential that exists in education as
dialogue and group construction.

2. Today, 15 years later, we see with excitement the impact that this thought and
expression space has had in the classroom and other educational settings. A
space for listening and reflection, where education becomes truly about hu-
man growth, for students and teachers alike.
In this historic moment, full of contradictions and enormous social and ecologi-
cal challenges, educators, teachers, parents and grandparents face unprec-
edented demands.
That makes us wonder and reflect:
What does it mean, in this context to educate for human development?
How can we stir the development of sensitivity, creativity and intelligence
to build knowledge and to contribute to a harmonious and optimistic fu-
ture?
It is from this perspective that we educators need to bring to the classroom
and to life an education that fosters physical, mental, emotional, and social
well-being, and that holds personal development as the foundation for social
transformation.
The objective of this encounter, “Thinking education” Dialogues, is to incite a
collective dialogue between experts, educative authorities, principals, teach-
ers, parents and students, so that together we find answers to these questions
and concerns.
It is an honor to invite you to participate in the conference The relevance of
cognitive and social skills as the basis for collective well-being: from the
classroom, to school, to the larger community, and to contribute with this
group to the transformation of education in Mexico.
Attentively,
Mtra. Claudia Madrazo
Creator of dia program
Director of La Vaca Independiente
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3. La Vaca Independiente and SEP
Are honor to invite you to
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Thinking Education
San Ildefonso Museum
March 2nd. and 3th. 2011
Intention
To nurture and create a learning community among all our teacher trainers
and educators, and to foster commitment to this relevant work.
Objective
To promote a collective dialogue between experts, educative authorities,
teacher trainers, principals, teachers, parents and students, in order to
broaden our perspectives, comprehension and knowledge of our roles and
functions in education, with the challenges and opportunities that are pres-
ent today in national and global contexts.
To reflect on relevant questions such as: What does it mean to educate for
human development? How can we stir the development of sensitivity,
creativity and intelligence to build knowledge and to contribute to a
harmonious and optimistic future? What roll do pedagogical media-
tion and art play on the development process? Also to explore how the
dia program contributes to these educational processes.
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4. Event Structure and Design
The event is designed as a space for dialogue to generate collective re-
flection and ideas.
Experts will provide generative ideas and questions that will serve as in-
spiration and foundation for discussion and reflection.
The knowledge and experience that each participant brings, including
those that have had experience with the dia program through these years,
will be fundamental to enrich conversation, construct collectively and iden-
tify learning needs.
A facilitation process will be designed to organize the tables and to cap-
ture the wealth that will come up during the different dialogues.
Contents
• The importance of education in the country´s development and social
well-being.
• The relevance of human development on today’s education.
• The importance of affective and social skills in today’s education.
• Art in my life
• Art as a tool for intelligence development inside the classroom.
• Pedagogical Mediation
• The relevance of cognitive and social skills as the basis for collective well
being: from the classroom, to school, to the larger community.
Participants
• 400 Teacher Trainers.
• 100 group composed by: Educative authorities, principals, teachers, par-
ents, children, business and community leaders.
• Experts and mediators
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5. Program
March 2
Schedule Contents Participants
9:00 to 10:00 Inauguration. dia student
The transformation of education on a national and global Joel Cohen
context. Alonso Lujambio, Minister of
Education
10:00 to 11:00 The importance of education in the country´s development Dialogue:
and social well-being. Federico Reyes Heroles
Gilberto Guevara Niebla
Silvia Schmelkes
11:00 to 12:00 1st. Dialogue. Facilitator:
Conversation tables Elena Díez Pinto
12:00 to 13:00 The relevance of human development on today’s education. Humberto Maturana
Ximena Dávila
13:00 to 14:00 2nd. Dialogue Facilitator:
Conversation tables Elena Díez Pinto
14:00 to 15:30 Lunch
15:30 to 16:30 The importance of affective and social skills in today’s edu- Kimberly Schonert-Reichl
cation. Janet Patti
16:30 to 17:30 Exchange experiences dia teachers, trainers and
educators
March 3
Schedule Contents Participants
9:00 to 9:30 Art in my life James Turrell
9:30 to 10:30 Art as a tool for intelligence development inside the class- David Perkins
room. (To be confirmed)
10:30 to 11:30 3rd. Dialogue. Facilitator:
Conversation tables Elena Díéz Pinto
11:30 to 13:00 Pedagogical mediation David Sasson
Claudia Madrazo
13:00 to 14:00 4th. Dialogue. Conversation tables Facilitators
14:00 to 15:30 Lunch
15:30 to 16:30 The relevance of cognitive and social skills as the basis for Peter Senge
collective well-being: from the classroom, to school, to the
larger community.
16:30 to 17:30 5th. Dialogue. Conversation tables Facilitators
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