Global Schools: Connecting Classrooms and Students around the World-PLC

PLC Description: In an effort to reduce all disparities, including: health, racial and ethnic, income-based, and education-based, the Global Education PLC will meet monthly to discuss how to engage students in thinking about global issues around health, education and environment. Wareham Public Schools presently has nine partner schools across the world. Together, PLC members will research curriculum and benchmark assessments that allow students to work with international partners to discuss ways that youth can get involved with solving world issues. Some of the projects reached by the group in the past are: universal access to clean water, mosquito-borne illnesses, lack of technology in rural schools, the concept of privilege, and global warming has begun the process of developing a sister school there. The PLC members would like to make the new sister school in Sydney one of the focuses for next year as well. Another focus for 2018/19 will be to concentrate on the issue of access in Global Education. Another major focus of this PLC will be to continue the annual International Night, an event that draws 200-300 people and is a celebration of cultures. There will be food, music, and dance performances that celebrate the many cultures in the community. It will be held May, 2019.

Members of this 2017/18 PLC were all offered to apply for an all-expenses paid teaching/sight-seeing experience in China this July. Two members applied and will be attending. It is our hope that we will again be able to offer this opportunity to PLC members this year as well, as a result of the work we have been doing the past two years.

PLC Objectives:  A major objective of the Global Education PLC is to promote cultural competence in students, educators, and community. Some of the research that the PLC will be considering is the body of work from Harvard School of Education professor, Paola Uccelli. She is developing a tool that measures the impact of global education programming on youth development, particularly in the areas of openness, empathy, adaptability, and flexibility. 

Each participant will receive a copy of William Kist's book, The Global School: Connecting Classrooms and Students Around the World.

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EEC Training Hours: 20 Hours