Bridging Classrooms & Communities Selected Bibliography

About the Bridging Classroom & Communities Initiative
 

 

 

BRIDGING
CLASSROOMS & COMMUNITIES
DIALOGUES

Global issues from Local Perspectives
Local issues from Global Perspectives

Unique Professional Education Experiences
for Elementary & Secondary Educators

Global Source hosted a series of professional dialogues for elementary and secondary educators across the Puget Sound region focused on local and global issues facing humanity and the planet. These gatherings offered educators the chance to have a meaningful professional exchange around shared topics of interest. These events featured experts, practitioners, educators and organization engaged in these topics and issues locally and globally.

Educators Were Encouraged to:

  • Discuss issues for classroom study & topics for school projects
  • Integrate these topics into existing teaching assignments, course curricula and student learning goals
  • Share stories from and for classrooms & communities
  • Deepen your ability to help students to think and act around the interdependence of global and local concerns, and their place in our lives
  • Learn about curricular ideas and teaching resources
  • Expand professional and community networks
  • Build professional learning communities

 
 

 

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About Upcoming Dialogues

What are people saying about our Bridging Classrooms and Communities Dialogues?

"It was a pleasure to share with a group of intelligent and informed educators."

"Thanks for the inspiration!"

"Excellent opportunity to learn and network around these issues"

"I enjoyed learning what others are doing and connecting with people sharing a similar passion."

Past Programs

October 14, 2006, Edmonds, WA
Contemporary World Issues & Citizenship: Bridging the Global & Local (see highlights) in conjunction with WSCSS Fall In-service

October 26, 2006, Bainbridge Island, WA
Food, Farming, Culture & Education (see highlights)

December 2, 2006, Chico Creek, WA (Postponed)
Salmon, Conservation & Education

December 5, 2006, Bainbridge Island, WA
Food, Farming, Culture & Education (see highlights)

December 10, 2006, Bainbridge Island, WA
In Honor of Human Rights Day

February 6 and 13, 2007, Bainbridge Island, WA
Food, Farming, Culture & Education

March 9, 2007, Chelan, WA at WSCSS Leadership Retreat
Food, Farming, Culture & Education

March 15, 2007, Seattle, WA
Global Education

April 19, 2007, Bainbridge Island, WA
Global Education

What is global education? How is it defined and what does it look like in our teaching and learning? Is international education the same as global education? What are the forces that are influencing the global education movement?

Join us for an evening of professional dialogue as we explore these questions and more. We will examine pedagogical considerations and curricular approaches to global education, and deepen our understanding of its place in our teaching practice and in the larger landscape of K-12 education.

  • Share stories and discuss issues of teaching and learning
  • Learn about resources, class projects, and school-community relationship
  • Expand professional connections and network

We are happy to have Walter Parker, from the UW College of Education, helping to facilitate this dialogue.  He will also share some of his latest research on the global education movement. To learn more about Walter and read some of his work, visit: http://depts.washington.edu/coe/programs/ci/profiles/parker.html

Thanks to Woodward Middle School for hosting this dialogue, and to Bainbridge Island School District Walter Parker for helping us to present this program!

Hosted at Woodward Middle School Library, 9125 NE Sportsman Club Road, Bainbridge Island

Food and refreshments will be served.
 
Clock hours will be available.

Space will be limited to 25 participants, so register early.
(As space becomes limited, preference will be given to K-12 educators.) 

$12 Suggested Donation

May 8, 2007, Bainbridge Island, WA
Reclaiming the "Human" in Human Rights
A Dialogue about Bearing Witness

When we are concerned with fairness, justice, diversity, safety, caring, respect, and responsibility in our teaching and learning, we are bearing witness to the human side of human rights education. As Maxine Greene once noted in describing the responsibility and challenge of American education in addressing discrimination and struggles for freedom, "We 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."

Join us for an evening of professional reflection, exploration, and engagement. Participants will have the opportunity to share stories of bearing witness in their personal and professional lives, and we have invited a few special guests to share their experiences and work in bearing witness, locally and globally. This program is for school and community based educators, regardless of their practice and experience.

We are grateful to The Suquamish Tribe for their generous support of this program.

Hosted at Seabold Hall, 14451 Komedal Road NE, Bainbridge Island  

Food and refreshments will be served.
 
Clock hours will be available.

Space will be limited to 25 participants, so register early.

$12 Suggested Donation

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