Dear Community Members,
Here's our weekly update with the latest events and resources related to global education and innovation! Please pass along this information to potentially interested friends and colleagues.
We’d love to see you online at some of our upcoming live Actionable Innovations Conversations. Take a look at our terrific lineup of guest speakers below!
Thanks for reading,
Lucy Gray
Co-Founder
lucy@globaledevents.com
NOTEWORTHY
- World Savvy is celebrating its 20th anniversary by hosting a slew of events in Minneapolis and San Francisco. There is a Bay Area open house on May 23rd if you are based in California!
- The World Council on Intercultural and Global Competence hosts a Global Meet Up twice a year. The next Global Meet Up is on Tuesday, May 24 at 8 am Eastern. Register here.
- Check out these upcoming events from Explorer Classroom at the National Geographic Society! A featured speaker is Out of Eden Walk’s Paul Salopek. Paul served as a GlobalEdCon keynote speaker several years ago.
- Additional events for your students are available from Exploring By the Seat of Your Pants. World Ocean Week programming is detailed here.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
We had two fantastic conversations last week, so make sure to watch the recordings! Also, follow all the innovative educators and organizations who have appeared (or will appear on Actionable Innovations Global) on Twitter via this list.
- Learn about the artful, student-centered teaching approach of English teacher extraordinaire Linda Vasu. Click here for the recording.
- Find out about Global Nomads Group’s brilliant youth-centered Content Creation Lab from GNG’s CEO, Courtney Welsh. Learn about their process for engaging students across the globe in the design of engaging and relevant courses. Click here for the recording.
EVENTS
FRIDAY, MAY 20
Actionable Innovations Conversations with OER and PBL Expert Rich Dixon of Hapara
1 PM CDT (GMT-5) - REGISTER HERE (free)
Rich Dixon will join us for an engaging discussion on Open Educational Resources. How might we, as educators, leverage Open Educational Resources to differentiate learning and promote educational equity? We will review this question as we examine the current OER landscape and explore a framework to help differentiate instruction to promote educational equity. This interview will highlight the role that OER plays in helping diversify teaching and learning resources to meet the needs and context of all learners by creating a responsive learning environment in person, remotely, or in a hybrid setting.
Rich Dixon is the Senior Director of Innovation at Hāpara where he focuses on championing the use of OER to help differentiate learning for all students. He is passionate about applying his 25+ years as a teacher, administrator, staff developer, IT director, and curriculum coordinator to promote differentiated learning that addresses educational equity issues. He is a national speaker who has presented on a range of emerging edtech topics, including OER, digital badges, and technology-enhanced pedagogy. Previously, he served as the Director of Professional Learning Services at Lesson Planet, a legacy OER aggregation provider. Most recently, he was the Director of Online Learning at PBLWorks/Buck Institute for Education, where he studied under the National Equity Project to help create professional development that leveraged culturally responsive practices. He has also been a faculty member of the Education Innovation Alliance and a Lecturer in the Graduate School of Education at UC Santa Barbara.
FRIDAY, JUNE 3
Actionable Innovations Conversations with Ivan Cestero of Portal Schools
1 PM CDT (GMT-5) - REGISTER HERE (free)
Ivan Cestero, Director of Strategic Partnerships at Portal Schools, will join us on Friday, June 3, at 1 PM CDT (GMT-5). Actionable Innovations Co-Founder don buckley will interview Ivan about Portal Schools and the challenge of unlocking sustainable education and industry collaboration.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15
Actionable Innovations Conversations with Leigh Cassell of the Digital Human Library
7 PM CDT (GMT-5) - REGISTER HERE (free)
Lucy Gray will interview Canadian Leigh Cassell about her work as a teacher and as an entrepreneur. We will learn more about the Digital Human Library and Leigh’s other projects that support globally connected teaching and learning.
FRIDAY, JUNE 24
Actionable Innovations Conversations with Asia Society’s Heather Singmaster
1 PM CDT (GMT-5) - REGISTER HERE (free)
On June 24th, we will welcome Heather Singmaster as our featured guest. Heather Singmaster is Director for CTE and GCEN, Center for Global Education at the Asia Society where her work focuses on international best practices and integrating global competence into Career Technical Education (CTE) programs as well as state and national policy. Heather leads the Global Cities Education Network (GCEN), a network of international cities focused on best practice sharing in education. She speaks and writes regularly on global education, including as the former host of Education Week’s Global Learning blog.
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