Nguyen Thuy Uyen Phuong
Ms. Nguyen Thuy Uyen Phuong is an educator dedicated to promoting new educational methods in Vietnam. She has established and operated many innovative educational models and projects to raise awareness and promote progressive education for Vietnam. She is also recognized as a leading consultant in establishing and operating schools as well as training personnel in the education industry.
Ms. Nguyen Thuy Uyen Phuong is an educator dedicated to promoting new educational methods in Vietnam. She has established and operated many innovative educational models and projects to raise awareness and promote progressive education for Vietnam. She is also recognized as a leading consultant in establishing and operating schools as well as training personnel in the education industry.
Ms. Nguyen Thuy Uyen Phuong is the Founder and Chief Consultant of FAROS Education & Consulting, an organization dedicated to providing operational and professional consulting services to schools and educational institutions. Some notable projects managed by FAROS include The Edu House (HCMC), I Can School System (HCMC), Sao Khue Bilingual School System (Dong Nai) and International School Mekong Green (Kien Giang). FAROS is also the official and sole representative of PET (Parent Effectiveness Training), TET (Teacher Effectiveness Training), and YET (Youth Effectiveness Training) in Vietnam, which are the world's leading educational effectiveness training programs. Founded by Dr. Thomas Gordon, a three-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee. She also currently serves as the School Board Chair of I Can School, a school that uses Design Thinking as its teaching method.
She also has many contributions to the education of Vietnamese children and young people. She is the founder of TOMATO Children's Home, a pioneering educational organization in Vietnam on non-academic skills such as emotional education, social skills, children's creative skills. In 2018, she brought the "Design for Change" movement to Vietnam. This is one of the largest children and youth movements in the world, helping them learn how to use Design Thinking to solve community problems, while promoting self-confidence and problem-solving skills. problems in children.
She is currently a Research Student at TPhD at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, one of the top public universities in the United States in the "Research 1" group (with the best research quality). Her major is Learning Design and Leadership, with a research focus on New Learning. In this century).
She is also involved in various educational programs and initiatives at an international level. She co-chaired the project "New Education and Pioneers in Vietnam" with Dr. Nguyen Thuy Phuong in collaboration with the University of Geneva (Switzerland) in 2017-2018. She was awarded a scholarship by the US Department of State, the German government's international cooperation agency (GIZ), and was selected to participate in the Young World Founders program of the Westerwelle Foundation (Germany). She has also been a speaker at several international conferences, including the 3rd Eurasian Principals Conference in Groningen, Netherlands (2012).
Phuong also leads a number of non-profit educational projects. In 2020 and 2021, she chairs and runs the Help A Teacher (HAT) initiative, which has raised more than VND 6 billion to provide financial support for private preschool teachers facing difficulties due to school closures during the university. Covid-19 pandemic.
Before joining the field of children's education, she was the Executive Vice President of PACE Institute of Management and the Executive Director of PACE's non-profit educational projects such as the IPL Leadership Seed project and the PACE Leadership Project. Good Book project (and promoting a reading culture).
