María Ximena Barrera

María Ximena Barrera is the Project Manager of the Aprendiendo a Aprender | Learning to Learn project, working with teachers and educational leaders in Panama to transform teaching and learning in Panama’s public schools. She is a founding member of FUNDACIES, a non-profit organization dedicated to educational research and professional development for educators and has been working with Project Zero ideas for more than 25 years in different schools in Latin America and Spain, supporting them in the implementation of Project Zero’s Teaching for Understanding and Cultures of Thinking frameworks. She has also worked throughout Colombia with public school teachers on a project called Teaching for Understanding for the Construction of Citizenship for Colombia’s Ministry of Education. In addition, she has been an adjunct lecturer at Florida International University, teaching a course on Early Childhood Curriculum, and she has helped facilitate Project Zero’s online courses and annual conference for many years.