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iEARN 2018: The Poetry of Peacemaking: Empowering Students as Change Makers for an Era of Sustainability
The document discusses the importance of storytelling and education as tools for peace and social change, emphasizing the role of empathy, collaboration, and action in fostering a sustainable future. It includes various quotes from influential thinkers and educators that advocate for student empowerment and the constructive creation of a better world. The author, Jennifer D. Klein, highlights the shift from traditional teaching methods to more inquiry-based approaches that encourage active participation and critical thinking among students.
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- 1. The Poetry ofConstructing Peace: Empowering Students as Change Makers for an Era of Sustainability Jennifer D. Klein — @jdeborahklein Principled Learning Strategies Head of School, Gimnasio Los Caobos (Bogotá, Colombia)
- 2. “¿Para qué tractoressin violines?” José Figueres Ferrer
- 3. i was raisedto know every open wound on this earth is a wound of mine and every time i’m on my knees refusing to stand and be a healer i may as well be the disease Andrea Gibson
- 4. “True progress requiresnot just the absence of destruction, but the presence of construction.” Oscar Arias
- 5. “I would hurlwords into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of the hunger for life that gnaws in us all, to keep alive in our hearts a sense of the inexpressibly human.” Richard Wright, from Black Boy (American Hunger)
- 6. Time comes intoit. Say it. Say it. The universe is made of stories, not of atoms. Muriel Rukeyser
- 7. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie “Stories matter.Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign, but stories can also be used to empower and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity.”
- 8. No foreign sky protectedme, no stranger's wing shielded my face. I stand as witness to the common lot, survivor of that time, that place. Anna Akhmatova Mohammed Farraj, 2008 https://www.facebook.com/MohammedFarrajP hotographs/
- 9. It is difficult toget the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there. William CarlosWilliams
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- 11. TonyWagner “There’s no competitiveadvantage today in knowing more than the person next to you. The world doesn’t care what you know. What the world cares about is what you can do with what you know.”
- 12. Odia Ofeimun I havecome down to tell my story by the same fireside around which my people are gathered I have come home to feel for ears and hearts and hands to rise with me when I say the words of my mouth And I must tell my story to nudge and awaken them that sleep among my people.
- 13. The Difference betweenAwareness and Citizenship is ACTION “Education without action is like food without exercise.” –Terry Godwaldt The Centre for Global Education (Edmonton)
- 15. “There could beno creativity without the curiosity that moves us and sets us patiently impatient before a world that we did not make, to add to it something of our own making.” From Pedagogy of Freedom
- 16. The “Sage onthe Stage” 1.Teacher Frontloads Content 2. Students Listen, Read, and Study 3.Teacher Frontloads More Content 4. Students Listen, Read and Study 5. Students Complete Summative Task
- 17. The “Sage onthe Side” 1. Entry Event Provokes Student Questions 2.Teacher Guides Research 3. Students Ask More Questions 4.Teacher Backfills Content as Needed 5. Students Create Summative Product
- 18. In-Depth Inquiry Voice & Choice Driving Question Need to Know Revision & Reflection Public Audience SIGNIFICANT CONTENT 21STCENTURY SKILLS Find this and other Project-Based Learning materials at bie.org
- 20. Starting from Passionand Purpose
- 21. “…increased resilience springsfrom the steady dedication to something larger than ourselves.” William Damon, from The Path to Purpose
- 23. “If you wantto build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.” Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- 24. I am awaiting perpetuallyand forever a renaissance of wonder Lawrence Ferlinghetti
- 25. Good Ideas ChangetheWorld: Boyan Slat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IqsD-HAYwk
- 26. History is basicallya list of things that couldn’t be done, and then were done. --Boyan Slat
- 27. “Commonsense has trampleddown many a gentle genius whose eyes had delighted in a too early moonbeam of some too early truth…” --Vladimir Nabokov
- 28. Federico Cartín Arteaga Co-Founderand President Rutas Naturbanas, Costa Rica
- 31. Rueda de Negocios (8th grade) Construyendo SigloXXI (9th grade)
- 32. “One looks backwith appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.” Carl Jung
- 33. “Great social forcesare the accumulation of individual actions. Let the future say of our generation that we sent forth mighty currents of hope, and that we worked together to heal the world.” Jeffrey D. Sachs
- 34. Asset Lens Leadsto Equitable Collaboration Deficit Lens Leads to Inequitable Relationships
- 35. “If you havecome here to help me, you are wasting your time. If you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.” LillaWatson, Aboriginal Rights Leader
- 36. The Global EducationContinuum Savior Mentality (Deficit Mindset) Global Collaboration & Partnerships Equity Orientation (Asset Mindset) Constructive Glocal Engagement
- 37. “We share asacred endowment, a common history written in our bones. It follows… that the myriad of cultures of the world are not failed attempts at modernity, let alone failed attempts to be us.They are unique expressions of the human imagination and heart, unique answers to a fundamental question:What does it mean to be human and alive?” Wade Davis
- 38. “Friends and partnersdo not just fall from a tree in one’s backyard. They become friends and partners only through interactions in various occasions when mutual interests, respect, and understanding are uncovered and developed.” Yong Zhao, from World Class Learners
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- 41. “Revolutionary change doesnot come as one cataclysmic moment…. We don’t have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.” Howard Zinn
- 42. No one livesin this room without confronting the whiteness of the wall behind the poems, planks of books, photographs of dead heroines. Without contemplating last and late the true nature of poetry. The drive to connect. The dream of a common language. Adrienne Rich
- 43. Denise Levertov We arehumans, men who can make, whose language imagines mercy, lovingkindness; we have believed one another mirrored forms of a God we felt as good… nothing we say has the quickness, the sureness, the deep intelligence living at peace would have.
- 44. Andrea Gibson We haveto create; it is the only thing louder than destruction; it is the only chance the bars are gonna break Our hands full of color reaching towards the sky— a brush stroke in the dark It is not too late That starry night—it is not yet dry
- 45. “It Was” a creationmyth by Megan Cronin http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ojZWFn8-2w
- 46. Naomi Shihab Nye Thisis the world I want to live in. The shared world…. This can still happen anywhere. Not everything is lost. http://www.helpothers.org/story.php?sid=6607
- 47. Jennifer D. Klein— @jdeborahklein Principled Learning Strategies Head of School, Gimnasio Los Caobos jennifer@principledlearning.org