Hello, I am the coordinator of the Integrated Global Studies School at New Trier High School in Winnetk, Illinois, USA. I have 60 students who will be studying Science, Social Studies, and English next year under the shared theme of "Justice on this Planet". We would love to collaborate with students from all over the world at any point next year (August 2010- May 2011). For starters, our students are reading Three Cups of Tea, the story of Greg Mortenson and his push to create schools in Pakistan, for their summer reading.
Thanks!
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Hi Colby. I am a teacher in Sydney, Australia. I have been planning a project on modern slavery for a Year 10 class and would love to connect with one of your classes on this. It is not a big project. It would only take about six lessons. However, I am keen to do it at the start of September. If you email me I could send you some more information. I have been working on a site and it should go live next week. My email is rford@sacs.nsw.edu.au Hope we can get something happening!
Hi Colby,
I'm sure Afghan students in Jalalabad would be happy to discuss issues with your students. They also love Skype connections to link up face-to-face. Please take a look at their website here: http://gceafghanistan.ning.com/
If this interests you, feel free to contact the Project Director in Jalalabad, Abdul Qaum Almas, at: abdulqaum_almas@yahoo.com
You can also contact Steve Brown of the La Jolla Golden Triange Rotary Club Foundation in San Diego. Steve's e-mail address is: StephenRBrown@att.net
Hi Colby,
Absolutely love your theme of "Justice on this Planet". My classes and I would love to collaborate with you on this project. At my high school, we are on a semester block schedule so I shall be teaching a new elective, International Relations, beginning in January 2011, which will be for 10-12th grades. I would be thrilled to work with your class in any way. I have read Three Cups of Tea and have had the great honor of meeting Greg Mortenson when he was in my home town giving a lecture to a very packed house. I can assign this book as a class assignment for our first quarter to read. We could share technology ideas in how to integrate our classes. I am looking forward to carrying on this discussion and with others who would like to collaborate our classes together.
This sounds interesting. What types of projects do you plan on doing? What grade levels do you teach? I might be interested in doing something on child labor (both historically and today). I teach 9th grade Modern World History and 11th grade US History II. This would tie in with my freshmen with the Industrial revolution and my juniors with the progressive movement.
Three cups of Tea is a great choice for you to start the year with. Unfortunately I really don't get to cover that region until closer to the end of the year. Let me know what you think and keep me posted on how you will be sharing their work and I'll keep my eye out for some ways we might collaborate.
Colby Vargas > Kirsten KellyJuly 24, 2010 at 5:01pm
Kristen,
I have us history juniors as well, and will be trying to make all of the us history curriculum connect with justice themes, and with their science and english curriculums. I'll keep you posted as our year shapes up over the next few weeks.
I LOVE the theme for your upcoming school year - it's great to see entire schools dedicated to global studies. I have a program that I think would be perfect for your "Justice on this Planet" theme, particularly since you are having the students read Greg Mortenson. "Sit for Good" is a K-12 service-learning campaign that highlights educational inequalities throughout the world; during the program, students learn about these inequalities, specifically in sub-Saharan Africa, through a variety of lesson plans, activities, and discussion topics. During the event, students are instructed to limit their resources (such as desks) in order to demonstrate what school may be like for students in underserved communities. Furthermore, classrooms are encouraged to organize a fundraiser for the construction and support of schools in Uganda (which are coordinated by Building Tomorrow, the nonprofit which sponsors Sit for Good.)
After reading Three Cups of Tea, your students will no doubt be ready to take action in terms of universal primary education, and this program would be perfect for them.... The website is www.sitforgood.org and www.buildingtomorrow.org. Let me know if you need more info (allison@buildingtomorrow.org), and good luck with your school year - it sounds fantastic!!
We'd be interested in connecting- (and say hi to Randy O for me- he was our AD before you guys took him:) ) WE had Mortenson on campus a couple of years ago- We also have an interesting Sudan elective and a global issues class- I can think of a number of places we could connect-
Hello from Korea International School. I'm teaching 9th grade World Literature and Speech & Debate (9th through 12th grade students). I'd love the opportunity to collaborate with you. The theme of Justice on this Planet could easily be worked into my Speech & Debate course. We aren't slated to read Three Cups of Tea in World Literature, but again, the theme could probably work for us. Let's begin the idea bouncing! Thanks,
Tim
Hi Tim. I am a teacher in Sydney, Australia. I have been planning a project on modern slavery for a Year 10 class and would love to connect with one of your classes on this. It is not a big project. It would only take about six lessons. However, I am keen to do it at the start of September. If you email me I could send you some more information. I have been working on a site and it should go live next week. My email is rford@sacs.nsw.edu.au Hope we can get something happening!
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I'm sure Afghan students in Jalalabad would be happy to discuss issues with your students. They also love Skype connections to link up face-to-face. Please take a look at their website here: http://gceafghanistan.ning.com/
If this interests you, feel free to contact the Project Director in Jalalabad, Abdul Qaum Almas, at: abdulqaum_almas@yahoo.com
You can also contact Steve Brown of the La Jolla Golden Triange Rotary Club Foundation in San Diego. Steve's e-mail address is: StephenRBrown@att.net
Thanks,
Anna
Absolutely love your theme of "Justice on this Planet". My classes and I would love to collaborate with you on this project. At my high school, we are on a semester block schedule so I shall be teaching a new elective, International Relations, beginning in January 2011, which will be for 10-12th grades. I would be thrilled to work with your class in any way. I have read Three Cups of Tea and have had the great honor of meeting Greg Mortenson when he was in my home town giving a lecture to a very packed house. I can assign this book as a class assignment for our first quarter to read. We could share technology ideas in how to integrate our classes. I am looking forward to carrying on this discussion and with others who would like to collaborate our classes together.
Three cups of Tea is a great choice for you to start the year with. Unfortunately I really don't get to cover that region until closer to the end of the year. Let me know what you think and keep me posted on how you will be sharing their work and I'll keep my eye out for some ways we might collaborate.
I have us history juniors as well, and will be trying to make all of the us history curriculum connect with justice themes, and with their science and english curriculums. I'll keep you posted as our year shapes up over the next few weeks.
colby Vargas
I LOVE the theme for your upcoming school year - it's great to see entire schools dedicated to global studies. I have a program that I think would be perfect for your "Justice on this Planet" theme, particularly since you are having the students read Greg Mortenson. "Sit for Good" is a K-12 service-learning campaign that highlights educational inequalities throughout the world; during the program, students learn about these inequalities, specifically in sub-Saharan Africa, through a variety of lesson plans, activities, and discussion topics. During the event, students are instructed to limit their resources (such as desks) in order to demonstrate what school may be like for students in underserved communities. Furthermore, classrooms are encouraged to organize a fundraiser for the construction and support of schools in Uganda (which are coordinated by Building Tomorrow, the nonprofit which sponsors Sit for Good.)
After reading Three Cups of Tea, your students will no doubt be ready to take action in terms of universal primary education, and this program would be perfect for them.... The website is www.sitforgood.org and www.buildingtomorrow.org. Let me know if you need more info (allison@buildingtomorrow.org), and good luck with your school year - it sounds fantastic!!
If you can drive down this summer we have Julie Lindsay in town to talk about global projects-
http://micdssummerpd2010.wikispaces.com/Concept%2C+Power+and+Magic and http://micdssummerpd2010.wikispaces.com/Flat+Classroom+Workshop
Kim Cofino is also here-http://micdssummerpd2010.wikispaces.com/The+21st+Century+Classroom
Tim