Press Release:
Premier learning
solutions provider partners with global non-profit organization to foster new
developments in educational transformation.
Learning constitutes
many things, and an enduring commitment to transforming and innovating on what
it means to learn and teach in the 21st century is something that the country's foremost learning solutions provider is trying to
do.
Late last year, REX Book Store was announced as
the preferred distributor of publications and services by the Association for
Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD), a global non-profit organization
dedicated to improving how learning and teaching approaches are implemented to
help ensure the success of every child through innovative ways of education
that challenge, support, and engage them as whole persons in a safe and
healthy learning environment.
This year, REX is now recognized by ASCD as its official
Philippine partner, providing Filipino educators with a firm and reliable
access to award-winning and research-backed professional learning materials and
programs which would help them shape today's learners into the Whole Child.
REX's campaign for the Whole Child is based on ASCD's research and practices
which have gained traction in other developed countries' educational systems,
with integrations to curriculums and programs merging and transforming the
landscape of education for the 21st century.
In what began as a resource partnership way back in 2010,
ASCD has been providing REX with some of the industry's most trusted resource
speakers for their internal professional development, fusing new insights and
research into REX's publishing practices and holistic education campaigns. From
2015 onward, coinciding with REX's 65th anniversary, the premier learning
solutions provider began gradually adopting ASCD's whole child approach into
its core philosophy, incorporating the approach's vision with its own mission
of providing 21st-century learning tools and solutions that reflects what its
maxim "tayong lahat, kapit bisig,
para sa bata, para sa bayan" means: a village, a community, helping
each other nurture, sustain, and secure the success of children as future
professionals who would, in turn, help transform the country into a globally
competitive nation.
REX's full-fledged adoption, support, and
practice of ASCD's Whole Child initiative and other innovative approaches to
21st century learning has now developed into a deeper, joint commitment to
uphold the concepts of holistic education in light of the Philippine government's own
campaign to bring its educational system to the next level with the K-12
program. These efforts are part of REX's vision to help produce young learners today
who may lead us into the future, equipped with the critical skills they need to
contribute a positive impact to society towards global progress.
With over 115,000 members from 128 countries, REX Bookstore
now joins the ASCD community in helping transform the world of education by
assisting teachers and learning stakeholders, and helping secure the success of
each child through progressive values and holistic development.
