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CMMEdu Director Salomé Martínez participated in a thematic meeting at a UNESCO event held in Santiago.
Between Thursday, August 28, and Friday, August 29, the UNESCO World Summit on Teachers 2025 was held, a high-level global meeting that aimed to address the global challenge of teacher shortages and sustained support for teachers, as well as the valorization of this profession in a challenging economic and sociopolitical context.
Co-organized by the Government of Chile and UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization), this summit promoted dialogue on the challenges faced by teachers around the world, analyzing potential solutions that can be promoted through public policies, major trends in training and professional development, as well as current strategies to improve social dialogue and teacher participation in decision-making on education issues.
During the two days, the meeting held six thematic sessions, one of which included the participation of Salomé Martínez Salazar, principal investigator at the Center for Mathematical Modeling (CMM) at the Universidad de Chile, where she directs the Education Laboratory (CMMEdu).
Under the title “Building a Culture of Recognition and Valorization of the Teaching Profession”, in this thematic meeting moderated by Claudia Lagos, Undersecretary of Early Childhood Education at the Ministry of Education, participants (from the United Arab Emirates, Singapore, and Portugal, among others) discussed the transformative power of recognizing the teaching profession, exploring ways to highlight, celebrate, and enhance this work.
“At this event, I was able to share how the UNESCO-Hamdan Prize (for Teacher Development) that our Suma y Sigue program won in 2018 was key to the development of CMMEdu and, of course, how it has impacted teachers nationwide,” said Salomé Martínez, explaining that the award “helped to ensure the continuity of our program, generate partnerships and visibility, and open up opportunities to innovate and work in other areas of education.”
“In 2018, we had worked with around 1,500 teachers; today there are more than 5,000,” she emphasized, adding that, in addition to the direct impact, there is all the territorial work with leading teachers from different territories, which has generated a very valuable capacity for the system.”
Regarding her experience at this global summit, the expert said that “it was very enriching and exciting. I met many interesting people, and I was able to listen to and be part of discussions about the role of teachers in this era of AI, immediacy, and teacher shortages.”
By Iván R. Tobar Bocaz, CMM Communications.
Posted on Sep 3, 2025 in News
