[WSCSS] This Summer with Global Source Education

Fri Jun 15 20:57:56 EDT 2007

Hello Friends and Colleagues:

As the school year winds down, Global Source Education wants to remind you
about some special opportunities this summer to immerse yourself in learning
communities addressing crucial issues in education and critical issues
facing humanity and the planet. Join us this summer to:
* Refresh your professional self
* Recharge your batteries
* Enhance your professional repertoire
* Help you get inspired and connected for the upcoming school year
* Expand your professional resources and community networks

Below you will find information and links about summer programs and projects
on:

1. Global Education
2. Food, Farming, Culture and Education
3. Reclaiming the Human in Human Rights
4. Social Studies, Teacher Leadership and the CBA¹s
5. Teacher as Writer
6. Teaching Tibet

Wishing you a wonderful close of the school year! Hope to see you this
summer.

Regards,

Jonathan Garfunkel
Managing Director
Global Source Education
206-780-5797
http://www.globalsourcenetwork.org/

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1. Approaching Global Education
Summer Seminar, July 11-12, Seattle, WA

What is global education?
Where is it in the larger landscape of K-12 education?
Where is global education is your teaching practice?

This spring we began a dialogue on global education that included over fifty
educators serving K-12 education in the Puget Sound region. To continue and
carry forward what emerged from these dialogues, Global Source has organized
a two-day experience of critical inquiry, engaging discourse, and
professional learning community around this crucial area of K-12 education.

* Explore the place of global education as it is being defined and practiced
in K-12 education, and it your teaching practice.
* Examine how scholars, policy makers, and educators are researching and
defining global education across the wider landscape of K-12 and teacher
education. 
* Discuss how to find balance with teacher beliefs and professional
responsibility, professional discretion and structural constraints, and
pedagogy and practice.
* Strengthen your own definition and rationale for global education

For more information, visit:
http://www.globalsourcenetwork.org/ge_July_2007.htm

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2. Food, Farming, Culture and Education Summer Institute
- Educator's Retreat, July 16-18
- Curriculum Workshop , July 19-20
Day Road Farms, Bainbridge Island, WA

What are the possibilities for teaching and learning about food and farming
in our local schools and communities?
How do we work towards an ecology of sustainable schools and communities?

John Dewey said ³the school itself shall be made a genuine form of active
community life, instead of place set apart in which to learn lessons.²
Schools and educators want to find authentic and meaningful ways to
strengthen what we already feel responsible for fostering with our teaching
and learning: scholarship, citizenship and stewardship.  Working towards the
ecology of sustainable schools and communities means finding more authentic
and meaningful ways to bridge classroom and communities around issues of
food, farming, forestry, health, nutrition, habitat, conservation, history,
heritage, and civics.

³To change ideas about what land is for is to change ideas about what
anything is for.²  These words of Aldo Leopold

Join us for three days of presentations, hands-on activities, workshops, and
dialogue, situated in a working landscape designed to assist K-12 and
community-based educators in building their professional repertoire around
food, farming, culture and education.  This will be followed by a two day
curriculum making workshop to support retreat participants in turning their
lived experiences into a more lived curriculum.   We will address topics and
issues including:

* Agriculture & Agrarian Ideals
* Forestry and Wood Working
* Natural Habitat and Conservation
* Food, Health & Nutrition
* Reclaiming the Commons
* History and Heritage (Marshall Strawberry Project)
* Food & Culinary Arts (with lunch & food talk)
* Civics Education 
* Literature and the Arts

For more information, visit:
http://www.globalsourcenetwork.org/ffce_july_2007.htm

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3. Reclaiming the ŒHuman¹ in Human Rights: Towards an Experience of Bearing
Witness

- Evening Dialogue, July 10, Kitsap Location to be announced
- Day Long Workshop, July 24, Bainbridge Island, WA

Educating young people in the 21st century involves helping them bear
witness to local and global realities and fostering responsible citizenship
in a world of unprecedented interdependence, challenge, and possibility. As
we become aware of circumstances where there are questions of fairness,
justice, diversity, safety, caring, respect, and responsibility in our
teaching and learning, we begin to bear witness to the humanity in human
rights education.

As Maxine Greene once noted in describing the responsibility and challenge
of American education in addressing discrimination and struggles for
freedom: ³We who are in education cannot know, cannot truly know how it was,
how it is.  But we can attend to the some of the voices, some of the
stories.  And, as we do so, our perspectives on the meanings of freedom and
the possibility of freedom in this country [and around the world] may
particularize and expand.²

What characterizes the ³human² in human rights?
What constitutes an experience of bearing witness?
What skills would be included in a ³tool kit/ knapsack² to support a
meaningful experience of bearing witness?

Join us for a summer dialogue and workshop on reclaiming the human in human
rights as we work as learning community towards a deeper understanding and
experience of bearing witness. These programs are for school and
community-based educators, regardless of their practice and experience.

For more information, visit:
http://www.globalsourcenetwork.org/bw_july_07.htm

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4. Teacher Leadership and the Future of Social Studies Education: Building
Professional Learning Communities Around the Classroom-Based Assessments
(CBA¹s)

Special one-day programs at the 2007 OSPI Summer Institutes:
* June 20, Spokane, WA
* August 1, Vancouver, WA
* August 8, Auburn, WA

We invite you to be part of an initiative to develop teacher leadership in
connection with the WA State Social Studies Classroom-Based Assessments
(CBA¹s). We are looking to create a leadership network to support the
statewide implementation of the CBA¹s and we are actively seeking out
teachers who have already taken leadership roles in their schools and
districts in implementing the CBAs. These programs at this summer¹s OSPI
Institutes are a first step in this effort to address the statewide
implementation of the CBA¹s slated to take place in 2008-2009 and to
highlight the importance of developing professional learning communities
when trying to ensure that educational reforms have the opportunity to
succeed.  

Following the belief that teachers must be the primary driving force behind
school change and educational reform, these day-long sessions at the three
OSPI Summer Institutes create the professional time, space and setting for
participants to explore, discuss and engage in:

* How to develop ³strong external normative structures for practice²
informed by the design and purpose of the Social Studies CBA¹s.
* How the Social Studies CBA¹s can help build professional learning
communities in their district and a teacher leadership network across the
state. 
* How teachers are already using these common assessments to promote
powerful conversations with their colleagues and positive change in their
schools. 
* How to create opportunities for those who would like to become a part of a
CBA Teacher Network.

For more information on these programs, visit:
http://www.globalsourcenetwork.org/ss_july_07.htm

For more information on attending the OSPI Summer Institutes, visit
<http://www.k12.wa.us/conferences/summerinstitute2007>

(Global Source is working on a fourth, stand-alone program in Kitsap County
sometime in July.  If you would be interested in participating, please
contact Global Source Education.)

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5.  Teacher as Writer
Six Sessions, June-August
Global Source, Bainbridge Island, WA

Do you have a classroom story to share? Or a human rights issue to trumpet?
Join the Global Source Human Write Project, starting Summer 2007.  Cultivate
your sense of personal mission as a teacher.  Develop your OWN writing.
Help your students by recharging and renewing yourself through artistic
self-expression.  A group of (10-20) will meet throughout the summer to
launch this project.  The first meeting will be on June 25, 4-7pm.  The
dates for the additional 4-5 sessions will be worked out as a group, but
special ³summer schedule² allows (and in fact encourages) you to miss a
session while you are vacationing  and write about your travels. At the
first session we will negotiate/plan a variety of meeting places  one out
amongst nature, one in a tavern and oneŠ.who knows where?  Designed for
teachers, but open to all, from weak to professional writers.  Some will be
better teachers (or naturalists) and others better writers.  Teach, learn
and share.  Clock hours may be available.

For more information, contact us at info at globalsourcenetwork.org or call
206-780-5797. 

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6. Teaching Tibet
Dates to be determined, Global Source, Bainbridge Island
Interested in guided and independent study opportunities to grow and deepen
your professional repertoire around the study of Tibet this summer.  Tap
into the comprehensive professional and curricular resources of Tibet
Education Network, and have access the largest library on the study of Tibet
in K-12 education, right here on Bainbridge Island.  The ideal custom
setting to take your curriculum to the next stage of development. Clock
hours may be available.

For more information, contact Jon Garfunkel at
garfunkel at globalsourcenetwork.org or call 206-780-5797.

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206-780-5797
http://www.globalsourcenetwork.org/

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