2025 Bright Start International Conference
Annual Conference on Early Childhood
Together, let’s inspire a world that listens to and learns from its youngest citizens.
Bright Start Foundation and Montessori Global Education: A Strategic Partnership
The Bright Start Foundation is proud to partner with Montessori Global Education in a shared vision for the future—one that is child-led, where empowering educational opportunities are accessible to all.
Child-led pedagogy: Our valued strategic collaboration champions learner-centred innovations and initiatives, guiding us as we navigate diverse learning and knowledge-sharing opportunities for our communities and colleagues, fostering an environment where children's voices are at the heart of their educational journey.
Honouring Children's Rights-Celebrating Children's Projects
The 2025 Voices of Children Pedagogy™ Gallery, the annual highlight of the evolving Voices of Children Pedagogy™ project, will be held alongside the Bright Start International Conference in London from November 13–15. This inspiring gallery brings together a global audience to celebrate the creativity and imagination of children aged 4–6 from across the world. Far beyond an exhibition, it is a transformative platform that elevates young children's voices, celebrates their creativity, and ignites a call to action for meaningful change toward a more inclusive and equitable world.
Voices of Children Pedagogy™ Creativity Centres Across the World
As of December 2024, Voices of Children Pedagogy™ Creativity Centres have been established in partnership with early years settings and preschools in Brazil, Germany, India, Mexico, Nigeria, Peru, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and Zimbabwe, with more countries joining along the way.These centres serve as champions of the evolving New Voices of Children Pedagogy™ and as hubs of creativity and child-centred learning, both nationally and internationally.
In 2025, our work will focus on:
- Providing ongoing, creative, and reflective mentoring for educators working directly with children and families.
- Ensuring the benefits of the Montessori approach are fully realised within this vital project.
- Providing ongoing, creative, and reflective mentoring for educators working directly with children and families.
- Supporting a holistic and insightful approach to observation and evaluation.
- Showcasing children’s work in virtual exhibitions, museum galleries and school exhibitions, while establishing Voices of Children Labs within schools—where children take the lead in defining their own learning environments.
- Developing Voices of Children Blueprints and facilitating Voices of Children Conferences in classrooms, complemented by cross-border virtual meetings to foster global collaboration and exchange, empowering children as active global citizens in the present.
- Distributing the Voices of Children Manifesto for Change, signed by children and highlighting their messages to national leaders, requesting a formal response to their call for action.
- Expanding access to learning and case studies, making them available to the entire global early childhood education community.
If you're interested in getting involved, please contact us at: voicesofchildren@brightstartfoundation.org or connect@montessori.org.uk
Documenting its first year of implementation (January–June 2024) across diverse early childhood settings worldwide, this edition features compelling case studies that highlight the innovative practices, challenges, and accomplishments of educators and researchers as mentors integrating the evolving Voices of Children Pedagogy™ approaches into daily routines.
This publication introduces the first chapter of the evolving Voices of Children Pedagogy™ framework—a 17-stage, step-by-step guide designed to transform this vision into everyday practice.
In today’s rapidly changing world, integrating children’s voices into educational frameworks is more urgent than ever. Creativity serves as both a tool and a goal—empowering children to express ideas, solve problems, collaborate meaningfully, and shape their futures. This pedagogy connects their natural curiosity, critical thinking, and resilience with a holistic, rights-based approach to learning.
Created in response to a global call from educators for actionable strategies to amplify children’s voices, the early implementations of this pedagogy have already delivered extraordinary results, demonstrating its ability to transcend cultural and national boundaries.
Discover inspiring narratives, unlock actionable insights, and become a key player in a global movement transforming early childhood education.
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