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The Long Tail Effect

In Figures

The “long tail effect” refers to deferred outcomes of our activities, when new ideas, projects, and partnerships are born among participants of EdCamp events long after they had finished.

Research in the USA

In 2018–2019, the EdCamp Community that leads the EdCamp movement in the United States and unites all national EdCamp organizations across the world conducted a survey of members of the American movement.

40% of participants

develop the contacts they made during the events, cooperate with them in various projects, and share tools and resources with each other

33% of participants

continue communicating on social media

18% of participants

in creating professional learning networks and mutual support systems

Research in Ukraine

In Ukraine, 95 percent of EdCamp events participants (including online, offline, national, and regional) are women, their average age being 42.5 years, and with average 18.3 years of professional experience.

73% of participants

feel they had critical thinking shaped during EdCamp events

64% of participants

noticed the skills of social, emotional, and ethical learning appeared

63% of participants

gained tools for online teaching and other practical skills

57% of participants

believe they have opened new perspectives for themselves

74% of participants

speak of newly found motivation

88% of participants

believe that participation in EdCamp events has positively impacted their students’ learning

79% of participants

say their participation in EdCamp events has positively impacted their relations with colleagues

69% of participants

believe their participation in EdCamp events has positively impacted their relations with parents

81% of participants

noted their participation in EdCamp events added new tools to their hands-on toolkits

80% of participants

of teachers have been able to practice in classrooms what they learnt during the events

66% of participants

speak of becoming more confident in using their skills or discussing certain matters

In Video Stories

Behind statistics hide the stories of real people, actual teachers. To bring them to light, we’ve been inviting film director Pavlo Susliakov and KVIDEO production studio for several years in a row to create documentaries that help us tell the stories of “ordinary” extraordinary educators whose life changed after they started attending EdCamp Ukraine events.

Olesia Chaikivska

city of Yuzhne

“Considerable changes must begin with your surroundings” — such a concept Olesia Chaikivska, deputy director for educational work at the Viacheslav Chornovil General Secondary Educational Institution, a teacher of Ukrainian language and literature, tries to introduce at her school.

Vladyslav Akymenko

Paniutyne village

Vladyslav Akymenko, teacher of history at the Paniutyne Lyceum, working in various areas and attending various events, feels alive only in the classroom. Each and every person for him is a unique world. “The applause is for you” — the phrase becomes final at the end of each class.

Ihor Andriyenkov

Shevchenkove village

Ihor Andriyenkov, deputy director of Novomykolayiv Lyceum, teacher of foreign literature, conducted his first lessons at school with his hands trembling after he came there immediately after the university. But later he discovered a secret — being friends with students and filling the lessons with interactive tasks.

Valentyna Fedoriaka

The village of Trudoliub, Poltava Region

Math & physics teacher from Trudoliub school learned about EdCamp in the hardest moments of her life, after her husband, a prominent blacksmith, was killed in the Donbas war, when she didn’t want to live and thought of quitting her teacher’s job.

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My War. Lessons

Together with journalist Halyna Kovalchuk we prepared 25 unique, emotional, truthful and very sincere interviews with teachers. All of them are from different parts of Ukraine and have had different experiences, but they were united by one great misfortune that came to us on February 24. Some were forced to leave home because of the war, while others were helping their colleagues who were affected by it but all are united by an understanding of Ukraine value and love for it.