I am posting this for a third group of Juniors, who are working on a third project. If anyone is interested, either comment or email me. The Juniors at the North Shore Country Day School have been actively researching many different project as a result a research project which has arisen from a service learning initiative. After hearing a presentation by Jeffrey Sachs, a noted macroeconomist who created the U.N.’s Millennium Goals towards global development and improvement, the students became very interested in Millennium Promise. This is an organization Sachs created that works to make the U.N.’s Millennium Goals actual […]
Day: March 6, 2007
Multiple Projects – 11th Grade Service Learning Project Updates
It has been awhile since I have updated you with what has gone on with our Junior English classes. When we last left them, they were in the midst of planning and executing their Read-a-thon for the Kilimanjaro English Nursery School. Their goal was to raise$15,000 so that the school could provide a salary to “Teacher”, help purchase the land, and provide support to refurbish the buildings currently on-site. The juniors far exceeded their goal and have raised over $25,000 to support this project. In February, they had an opportunity to hear and meet Greg Mortenson himself, who was on […]
If you could pick a speaker, who would it be?
One of the members of our school’s Parent’s Association asked me if I could recommend a speaker that could speak to the group sometime next year. The group is looking for someone to speak on the concepts of globalization and parenting. I have a few thoughts, but I wanted to throw this out to the Internet at large. With the new tools, this person wouldn’t necessarily need to be on campus. We could set up a skype or elluminate session, which may actually be a neat way to go, since it would show parents the power of the new tools. […]
How would you define what a World Citizen is in the next 3 – 5 years?
One of the questions that emerged in the strategic planning meeting that I participated in yesterday was how do you define what a Global Citizen is? I have added the time frame in the title, as this committee’s report is to help guide our school for the next three to five years. The head of our language department began to define, on our discussion board, that a world citizen is someone who: applies the same ethical standards to all human beings regardless of race, gender, religion, ethnicity, socioeconomics, and nationality. understands human differences as functions of genetics, history, culture, opportunity, […]
An Off-Campus Outing
Last Friday, I had the distinct privilege to be asked by our French 5 teacher to participate in a brainstorming session about a project that the class was beginning. Since it was a Friday, I got to go off campus to a local coffee house where the class meets to participate and help create an environment that will support their project. Lucky for me, that on this particular Friday, that the class rule, “en francias, si vous plate” was suspended, or else I would have been at an extreme disadvantage. For this project, the students are participating in a service […]