Start From Simple, Personal Communication
Talk About Project Ideas With an Open Mind
Communicate Consistently and Then Step Aside
Choose the Right Communication Platforms
Platforms for Synchronous Communication
Platforms for Asynchronous Communication
A Few Concluding Thoughts
Avoid Exoticizing Partners
Avoid Misperceiving Academic Capacity
Avoid Focusing Solely on Helping
Avoid Solving for More Than With
Avoid Assuming Partners Can—or Should—Have the Same Technologies
Avoid Conflicting Priorities
A Few Concluding Thoughts
8 Exploring Social Justice Challenges Through Partnerships
Know Your Community
Get Administrative Buy-In
Gather Multiple Perspectives
Lean Into Discomfort
Use Human Rights Frameworks
Choose Social Justice Partnerships Thoughtfully
A Few Concluding Thoughts
9 Assessing Global Competencies, Partnerships, and Programs
Assess Students’ Global Competencies in a Partnership
Adapt and Retain Global Partnerships
Assess and Improve Broader Global Programming
Future Friendly Schools
The Global Education Benchmark Group
Center for Global Education at Asia Society’s International Studies Schools Network
World Savvy’s School Partnership Program
A Few Concluding Thoughts
10 Building a Culture of Global Engagement Across the Community
Build a Global Education Revolution
Your Community’s Culture
Schoolwide Events and Strategies for Engaging the Community
Professional Development and Growth Strategies for Teachers and Curricular Leaders
District and Policy Changes
Inspire Global Fluency Through Student Travel
Understand the Impact of Global Partnerships on Partners and Their Communities
Foster a Constructive Worldview
A Few Concluding Thoughts
About the Author
Jennifer D. Klein, a product of experiential project-based education herself, taught college and high school English and Spanish for nineteen years, including five years in Central America and eleven years in all-girls education. In 2010, Jennifer left teaching to begin PRINCIPLED Learning Strategies, which provides professional development to support authentic student-driven global learning experiences in schools. She has a broad background in global educational program planning and evaluation, student-driven curricular strategies, single-sex education, student service travel, cultural inclusivity, and experiential, inquiry-driven learning.
From 2010–2017, Jennifer worked as a consultant and teacher coach for a variety of educational organizations, including World Leadership School (Colorado), TakingITGlobal (Toronto), the Centre for Global Education (Edmonton), the Buck Institute for Education (California), the Institute of International Education (Washington, DC), and the International Studies Schools Network of the Center for Global Education at Asia Society (New York). In 2017, Jennifer was hired as head of school at Gimnasio Los Caobos, a preK–12 project-based school outside of Bogotá, Colombia. As a school leader, writer, speaker, and bilingual workshop facilitator, Jennifer strives to inspire educators to shift their practices in schools worldwide.
Jennifer’s articles have been published in Independent School, The NSSSA Leader, and The Educational Forum. She has blogged for a variety of forums, including EdWeek, The Partnership for 21st Century Learning, World Leadership School, the Buck Institute for Education, and her own Shared World blog. She has facilitated workshops in English and Spanish in Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Honduras, Mexico, Palestine, Sierra Leone, and the United States. Jennifer holds a bachelor of arts from Bard College and a master of arts from the University of Colorado at Boulder, both in literature and creative writing.
To learn more about Jennifer’s work, visit PRINCIPLED Learning Strategies (http://principledlearning.org) and follow her at @jdeborahklein on Twitter.
To book Jennifer D. Klein for professional development, contact [email protected].
INTRODUCTION
FOSTERING GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP BY MEETING IN THE MIDDLE
There could be no 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.
—Paulo Freire
I like to use the phrase meeting in the middle when talking about building equitable, reciprocal global partnerships. What does it look like to meet in the middle? The middle
