Presenters
Third Grade Dual Language Teacher
Maria Phillips is a Participate Learning Ambassador teacher from Costa Rica. Maria has taught at South Elementary in Person County, North Carolina, for the last 3 years. Maria is a Global Leaders teacher at a partner school, and participated in the Global Leaders Curriculum Fellowship in 2021, followed by the Global Leaders Mentor Fellowship in 2022. Both of these fellowship experiences revolved around designing PBL experiences for students with the SDGs. She is also a regular speaker at the Global Leaders Live Chat Events held within the Participate Learning Community of Practice.
Associate Director, Partnership Development
Ashley Solesbee is a veteran Global Educator, authenticity champion, and lifelong learner. Through years spent as a classroom teacher, and her current role as Manager of Global Leader Programs with Participate Learning, Ashley has developed a unique skill set that allows her to build meaningful curriculum products which utilize timely Global Education Frameworks, such as the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Her resources aim to provide teachers and students authentic opportunities to change and unite the world through Global Learning. She is passionate about sharing these resources with teachers everywhere, and supporting them as they empower their students to make the world a better place.
Session description
Utilizing our PBL planning template, teachers will create Global Action Projects, aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals and Participate Learning's Global Competencies. The projects empower students to become #GlobalLeaders who pay attention, feel connected and take action to make the world better for everyone.
Purpose & objective
Our participant outcomes are as follows:
Participants will implement technology-based design thinking tools, such as rapid ideation, and a PBL planning template, to build a Global Action Project for their school.
Participants will utilize the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals as a PBL Global Education teaching tool in their classroom.
Participants will learn to use Global Competencies as a social emotional learning tool to inspire students to be #GlobalLeaders who can change the world.
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Outline
Content and activities: Our content centers around two key pieces of our Global Leaders framework: The Global Competencies, and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. In addition, we utilize a research-based PBL template that guides teachers through their design sprint.
Time: Content is chunked into 10-15 minute blocks.
Process: Our process is a design sprint, meaning that teachers will be introduced to the foundational framework of the SDGs quickly, but thoroughly. From there, we will lead them through rapid ideation, as they identify one local issue facing their community that is reflected in an SDG. From there, we will support them as they design the first two phases of their Global Action Project. Our process relies heavily on peer-to-peer interaction.
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Supporting research
Participate Learning's Global Leaders Framework: https://www.participatelearning.com/global-leaders/
Battelle for Kids: Portrait of a Graduate: https://www.battelleforkids.org/how-we-help/portrait-of-a-graduate
The importance of the SDGS - "World's Largest Lesson": https://worldslargestlesson.globalgoals.org/
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