Building on her commitment to student empowerment, Constance collaborated with Aaron Moniz from Inspire Citizens to develop a new capstone unit for her eighth-grade students.
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The transformation towards a service learning curriculum at the SFS British School began with the establishment of six core values: courage, communication, collaboration, responsibility, respect, and reflection. These values form the bedrock of the school's culture and curriculum.
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Jenny recalls that the parent response to the shift in Chinese language instruction was a little uncertain at first. In a context that has long respected parent expectations for a rigorous curriculum, the updates were viewed a little skeptically. “Now, I almost never receive any questions,” explains Jenny. “Parents see their kids differently - they observe their children not only learning language skills but also thinking about their responsibilities in the world.”
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If you happen to walk through a certain busy intersection in the American Embassy School in New Delhi, India, you might be treated to a sight that illustrates the profound value of empathy in the educational experience of young adolescents.
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Educator Dom Verwey is a committed proponent of the positive outcomes that emerge from deep professional learning opportunities like the Inspire Citizens’ Global Citizenship Certificate. The leadership competencies acquired through this type of professional learning can shift one’s self-image “from expert to along-sider,” he says.
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Two passionate educators from Frankfurt International School (FIS), Mariko Jungnitsch and Mette Sarstedt, have been on a collaborative journey to reshape their 8th-grade English Language Acquisition (ELA) curriculum. Their inspiration has been sparked by the Global Citizenship Certificate (GCC) course with Inspire Citizens.
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At the end of March, grade 7 students at the Colegio Jorge Washington School (COJOWA) in Cartagena, Colombia, embarked on a powerful learning investigation. Their goal was to learn more about SDG #5 (gender equality) in the local context; in their social studies and Spanish classes, they began reflecting, questioning and thinking about the local community. What followed was a rich learning journey involving journalism and sustainable solutions to needs related to clothing and textiles.
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When visual art teacher Zoe Coughlan learned about Empathy to Impact, she found herself on a journey of transformation. She now designs her courses so that the first unit in each grade level focuses on skills, and then the second unit offers a way to apply those skills in relation to global issues and global citizenship topics.
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When three passionate educators gather around a water cooler, all kinds of things can happen. At the International School of Bangkok (ISB), a water cooler conversation has culminated in a powerful and multi-layered approach to develop student leadership, and the results are inspiring.
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A grade 6 student at Frankfurt International School takes action to “twin” toilets at her school with a community in Malawi. She is passionate about helping girls and women gain access to safe & secure sanitation facilities.
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The American Embassy School of New Delhi (AES) in India had a goal: they wanted to embed a meaningful service learning experience in every grade level of the school from pre-kindergarten to grade 12.
They knew they needed help to make this happen and leaders reached out to Inspire Citizens. What has transpired? An incredible partnership, a lot of enthusiastic teachers and quite a bit of professional learning magic.
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When middle school teacher Liz Zadoo first talked to Inspire Citizens founder Aaron Moniz about how to embed advocacy into one of her grade 8 social studies units, she got so excited that she went home and spent her evening revising and upgrading her unit plan.
“I thought redesigning the unit would be a lot of work and there would be a lot of planning. When Aaron explained what advocacy could look like in the unit, I was so excited; I was able to use my existing unit plan but tweak it in meaningful ways,” says Liz.
The Inspire Citizens team is working with AES-Delhi to develop a whole-school approach to embedding service learning into curricular experiences, and this eighth grade example is one of several success stories..
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