Teaching and Learning about
America's Role in the World

(Updated May 2005)

What are the challenging, complex, and controversial curricular topics that we have always wanted to take on in the classroom, but never felt quite well enough equipped or assured to do?

This series of educational forums offered the opportunity for elementary and secondary educators to explore the intricacies of teaching and learning about America's role in the world. We unpacked and examined our own professional experiences in light of a disciplined approach that considers what we teach along side how we teach. This process is designed to arrive at a curriculum that is educationally authentic and understood as such by all stakeholders of the school. It can hold up even in the current times of conflict and crisis. In each forum, there was lively, engaging professional discourse in which we, as educators and citizens, informed and inspired one another. Many thanks to the over 75 educators from all over WA state who participated in these forums!

Our first forum was March 11, 2005, hosted at the Annual WSCSS Social Studies Leadership Retreat, Lake Chelan, WA

Our second forum was March 26, 2005, with special guest, Sarah Ruth Van Gelder, Editor of YES magazine, hosted at the Common House of Winslow Cohousing, Bainbridge Island, WA

Our third forum was April 30, 2005 hosted at the Center for Urban Horticulture, Seattle, WA

Global Source relies on public support to make these Institutes accessible and affordable to schools and individual educators. If you would like to support this project with a tax-deductible contribution, please contact us at info@GlobalSourceNetwork.org. Global Source is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.

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