This document summarizes a presentation by Richard Kassissieh, director of information technology, and Paul Monheimer, a World Cultures Teacher at Catlin Gabel School in Portland, Oregon about their approach to global education. They discuss establishing partnerships with schools and organizations at home and abroad, integrating global topics and experiences into the core curriculum, involving the entire school community through trip journalism, assemblies and guest speakers, and celebrating diversity through international student exchanges and independent student travel. The goal is to develop students' cultural competence and provide varied international experiences.

1. Global Education
More Than Just Trips
Richard Kassissieh
director of information technology
Paul Monheimer
World Cultures Teacher
Catlin Gabel School
Portland, Oregon, USA
http://www.catlin.edu/global-education

2. Catlin Gabel School

3. Catlin Gabel School

4. Presenters
Paul Monheimer Richard Kassissieh
World Cultures Teacher director of information
technology

5. Presentation Outline
! Our premise: cultural competence
! Partners: collaborators at home and abroad
! Curriculum: where is global education in your school?
! Community: how to involve the entire school
! Presence: celebrating diversity – much more than inclusion

6. Our Premise
! Provide varied experiences for all students
! Start in the earliest grades
! Connect students to communities abroad
! Create a sense of global citizenship and activism
! Develop students' cultural competence

7. “Cultural competence is the will and the
ability to form authentic relationships
across difference.”
--Gary Howard

8. Partners
Collaborations at home and abroad

9. Wheel of Partnerships
Professional
Development
Exchange
Students Other Schools
Tertiary
Global Trips Institutions
Catlin Gabel
Global Education
Service Division
Organizations Partners
Teachers From
NGOs All Disciplines

10. Mercy Corps
! Action Center visits
! CG teacher blogs for Haiti
! “Why Not?” Skype chat
! Trip group workshops on
cultural competence or
specific issues

11. Guatemala Partners

12. Sénégal Partners
! Guest speakers
! In-country presence

13. Botswana Partners
! Botswana-Baylor Clinic
! Maru-a-Pula School
! Princess Marina Hospital
! Cascade AIDS Project

14. Israeli Partners
! Beit Sefer Huberman
! Petach Tikva
! Huberman blog
! Animoto project

15. Bienestar Homework Club
! Local service
! Students visit every week
! Within local Latino
community

16. Curriculum
Where is global education in your school?

17. If global education is not in the core curriculum
of your school, it may as well not exist.

18. A Window Into Gaza
! Partner: Mercy Corps
! In-country youth clubs
! “Why Not?” handbook
! Sufficient contact time
! Bilateral motivation
! Cultural sensitivity
! Technical support

19. HIV/AIDS in Botswana
! Pathogens and Pathology class
! Advanced Biology class
! Statistics classes
! Media Arts class
! Eighth grade history class
! Model United Nations club
! Global Citizens club
! Diversity Day

20. Service Programs
Strong service programs at
home make for strong
service programs abroad.
Costa Rica: reforestation
Guatemala: health and development
Botswana: HIV/AIDS and orphans
Senegal: education and entrepreneurship

21. Trip Planning
! Partnership practice
! Relate to present-day U.S.
! Helping school collect contacts
! Use of tech tools

22. Trip Planning Details
! Plan a month-long trip
! Trip planning is collaborative
! Facts and budgets
! Use on mobile device

23. Teacher International
Experience
Teachers with international experience lead the way in
integrating global education within the curriculum.

24. Community
How to involve the entire school

25. Trip Journalism
! Includes the school
community in the trip
experience
! Blog
! Podcast
! Video
! Forum
! iReport (CNN Int’l)

26. Tech Toolkit
! Audio recorders
! iPod/iPad
! Flip Video
! Web tools

27. Telling Our Stories
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! Making visible the
diversity of
international
experiences
! Structured
interviews
! Narrative articles
! With or without
students
http://www.catlin.edu/global-education/telling-our-stories

28. Viewfinder Global Film Series
! Community events
! Teacher and student led
! Relevant themes
! Celebrate diversity

29. Assemblies and Guest Speakers
! Hispanic Heritage Month
! Jensine Larsen & World Pulse
! Tracy Kidder
! Anne Keiser
! Sandy Northrup and David
Lamb
! Maru-a-Pula Marimba Band

30. Student Organizations
! Model United Nations
Club
! Global Citizens Club
! Ujima
! Diversity Conference

31. Presence
Celebrating diversity – much more than inclusion

32. International Students
! “Now you’re one of us.”
! “We are one with you.”
! Annual exchanges with
two schools
! Additional students
inquire

33. Visiting Groups
! Gifu Kita High School
! Martinique
! Maru-a-Pula Marimba
Band

34. Fulbright Program

35. Independent Student Travel
! Students apply to leave
! Invited to tell their stories
! Many existing vehicles
for sharing experiences

36. Teacher Experience
! Consideration in the
hiring process
! Invitation to all teachers
to participate
! Global trips as
professional development

37. Your Stories
Please add links to your stories to the chat

38. Q&A

39. Credits
! Mercy Corps Exterior: Maribel Lucatero
http://www.flickr.com/photos/131734/4730191415/
! Mercy Corps Interior: Mercy Corps
http://www.actioncenter.org/portland
! Botswana-Baylor Clinic: Botswana Teen Club
http://botswanateenclub.wordpress.com/
! Beit Sefer Huberman Blog
http://huberman10.blogspot.com/