In Numbers
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 finished.
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Who we are
The Long Tail Effect
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
participate in creating professional learning networks and mutual support systems
Research in Ukraine
In Ukraine, 95 % 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
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
81 %of participants
noted their participation in EdCamp events added new tools to their hands-on toolkits
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.
Yana Petlovana
Chortkiv, Ternopil region
Yana Petlovana does not place responsibility for her future on anyone, because she understands that only her actions lead to the future she aspires to. She teaches at the college, volunteers, chairs the station stratum foreman, and also shares her professional experience with educators at numerous educational events.
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Olena Trybko
Pomichna city, Kirovohrad region
Colleagues say about her: "Borysivna has gone somewhere again, she will bring something again. Even if you hide!". And she explains to them that teachers cannot stand still, because they teach children, and it is necessary to do it as best as possible, and for this it is necessary to feel the students' requests and to be on the same wavelength with the children.
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Iryna Tomych
Khmelnytskyi
It’s emotions that make us human. We need to study them, learn to manage them, because they can both lift us to heaven and lower us into the abyss. Iryna Tomych begins her story with these words. After February 24, she has stayed in her native Khmelnytskyi and continued to work as a school principal.
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Olesia Chaikivska
Yuzhne, Odesa region
“Considerable changes must begin with your surroundings.” This is the concept Olesia Chaikivska, deputy director for educational work at the Viacheslav Chornovil General Secondary School, a teacher of Ukrainian language and literature, is trying to introduce at her school.
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Yana Petlovana
Chortkiv, Ternopil region
Yana Petlovana does not place responsibility for her future on anyone, because she understands that only her actions lead to the future she aspires to. She teaches at the college, volunteers, chairs the station stratum foreman, and also shares her professional experience with educators at numerous educational events.
Olena Trybko
Pomichna city, Kirovohrad region
Colleagues say about her: "Borysivna has gone somewhere again, she will bring something again. Even if you hide!". And she explains to them that teachers cannot stand still, because they teach children, and it is necessary to do it as best as possible, and for this it is necessary to feel the students' requests and to be on the same wavelength with the children.
Iryna Tomych
Khmelnytskyi
It’s emotions that make us human. We need to study them, learn to manage them, because they can both lift us to heaven and lower us into the abyss. Iryna Tomych begins her story with these words. After February 24, she has stayed in her native Khmelnytskyi and continued to work as a school principal.
Olesia Chaikivska
Yuzhne, Odesa region
“Considerable changes must begin with your surroundings.” This is the concept Olesia Chaikivska, deputy director for educational work at the Viacheslav Chornovil General Secondary School, a teacher of Ukrainian language and literature, is trying to introduce at her school.
Ihor Andriyenkov
(1994—2023)
(1994—2023)
Shevchenkove village, Kharkiv region
Ihor Andriyenkov(1994—2023)
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. Although the war took Ihor from us, he will forever remain in our hearts.
Vladyslav Akymenko
Paniutyne village, Kharkiv region
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.” This phrase becomes the closing statement at the end of each class.
Oleksandr Dumyshynets
Kyiv
As a schoolboy, this computer science teacher could not envision that all his life will be related to education. And yet it turned exactly this way. After several years as a teacher, Oleksandr held a regional EdCamp event in his school and made it to the Top-50 list of Global Teacher Prize Ukraine.
Svitlana Stelmakh
(1971—2022)
(1971—2022)
Kherson
Svitlana Stelmakh(1971—2022)
Teacher of history, law, and civil education of Oleh Mishukov Academic Lyceum in Kherson was with EdCamp for a while. The educator held a demonstration lesson using the “aquarium’ method at our national event and organized and coordinated two mini-EdCamps in her school. Although the war took Svitlana from us, she will forever remain in our hearts.
Larysa Hrytsiuk
Mykolaiv
After she became the principal of secondary school No. 29 in Mykolaiv, she was forced to fight for its survival. The school with 200 students was facing a threat of shutdown. The only solution available to Larysa was to profoundly change the school. She engaged it into several innovative projects, including the anticorruption project, and became an integrity ambassador herself.
Liudmyla Khorkova
Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk region
School principal and history teacher in Kryvyi Rih secondary school No.114 is not just an active participant of the EdCamp Ukraine movement but also an education leader in many senses. Having learned about anti-corruption tools for youth, she grew sincerely fond of them and has been promoting their use in teachers’ communities ever since.
Alla Riabukha
Hlukhiv, Sumy region
First a teacher, then the principal of Hlukhiv secondary school No. 2 in the Sumy region, and now the head of the territorial administration of the State Service for Education Quality in the Sumy region faced academic unfairness and corruption in education just like many of her colleagues.
Maryna Liutynska
Haivoron, Sumy region
Trying to offer the best opportunities to her students, the teacher of computer science kept learning. Eventually, she was awarded a special prize from Microsoft Ukraine at the national Global Teacher Prize Ukraine competition. Maryna believes she has no right to stop developing, since the knowledge of five years ago is obsolete now.
Taiisiia Mukii
Kyiv
At one of EdCamp Ukraine (un)conferences, a computer science teacher from a Kharkiv high school was introduced to development director of Vynakhidnyk network of technical schools (now INVENTOR STEM school) and was offered a new job — to take charge of their Kharkiv school.
Oleksandr Datsenko
Oleksandriia, Kirovohrad Region
Curriculum content developer from education, youth, and sports department of Oleksandriia City Council, geography teacher, father of a schoolgirl, and husband of a teacher succeeded in changing the system of teachers’ professional development across the entire Kirovohrad region.
Valentyna Fedoriaka
Trudoliub village, 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.
Leonid Myronenko, Olha Hurska
Poltava
To better understand his students, deputy Educational director of Poltava specialized boarding school for athletes, Ph.D. in Pedagogy, dared to launch an experiment: he asked his former student Artur Shyika to switch roles with him for a while.
Maia Tutaieva
Khmeliove, Kirovohrad region
The director of educational institution in Khmeliove was the first edcamper in Ukraine’s EdCamp community. Maia was the first educator to support the idea of holding educational (un)conference in EdCamp format by an inspired exclamation: “I will be the first one to arrive!”.
