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Global Education: More Than Just Trips
I recently co-facilitated this concurrent session with three teachers at our school, at the PNAIS Fall Educators Conference. The purpose was to describe how we have worked together to integrate global...
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Our Online Conference Presentation
Play the recorded session (60 minutes, Elluminate platform) TITLE: Enlarging the Box: Reframing Global Education Schoolwide PRESENTER: Richard Kassissieh, Catlin Gabel School (United States)...
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Peace Corps Correspondence Match
The Peace Corps runs the Paul D. Coverdell Worldwise Schools program, providing education resources to U.S. schools based on Peace Corps volunteer experiences. One part of this program is a...
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Global Ed Across the Curriculum
As a follow-up to our presentations on global education, I am guest teaching in our Pathogens and Parasites classes this week, part of a broader effort to broadly integrate global education across the...
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Saturday Is for Funerals
In preparation for our service trip to Botswana, I recently read Saturday Is for Funerals. We continue to find resources perfectly matched to our trip objectives, including a guest speaker from the...
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Global Trips: Student Leadership
A number of us are working to make this year’s global trips a whole-community experience. Previously, we made a strong push for teachers to include Botswana and HIV/AIDS in their course curricula. Now,...
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Director, Global Online Academy
Professional Opportunity: Director, Global Online Academy Location: Seattle, WA (Catlin Gabel is a founding member of the Global Online Academy.) The Global Online Academy is a 21st-century educational...
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Miss HIV
On the one hand, Miss HIV provides detailed insight into the personal side of HIV/AIDS in Botswana and Uganda. Interview subjects describe their journeys through testing, illness, treatment, and...
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Botswana Trip Curricular Goals
Source: cordelia_persen on Flickr We leave for Botswana in two weeks. What curricular goals have we realized so far, and what remains to accomplish? Collaborations with discipline-based classes We (the...
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In Botswana
This blog is on hiatus while I lead a school trip to Botswana. The students are blogging the trip. Kassblog will return July 9.
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Botswana Trip Recap
13 students and two teachers visited Botswana from 19 June to 7 July. The trip achieved its goal of providing direct service to HIV/AIDS organizations, introducing students to Botswana culture, and...
View ArticleA Guide to Schools Considering Online Learning
NAIS recently published an Online Learning Guide, designed to help schools gain perspective and consider next steps for their considerations of online learning. Alex, Arvind, and Vinnie from EdTechTalk...
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Global Online Academy 2.0
The new Global Online Academy website includes course offerings for 2012-13. They represent a big step up in variety and sophistication over year 1. Detailed descriptions may be found here. AN...
View ArticleInsurance’s Outsize Influence on Global Travel
It seems that each year, insurance requirements increasingly affect our school global programs in a way that threatens their emphasis on social responsibility and global citizenship. This year, our...
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The Smartest Kids In the World
Each summer, U Prep faculty members read a choice of three books to kick off the professional development theme for the following academic year. This year, our professional development theme is...
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Maru-a-Pula Scholars in the U.S.
Edward “Ned” Hall founded the American Friends of Maru-a-Pula in 1974, just two years after Maru-a-Pula itself opened its doors in Gaborone, Botswana. In the 40 years since, AFMAP has helped...
View ArticleWorldStrides Summit on Global Awareness & Leadership
Last week, our global programs director Brian and I spent two days at a WorldStrides-sponsored event in Philadelphia, at which we studied questions about optimal program design and student experience....
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