Fall Workshop Series: Global Solidarity, Local Actions Toolkit!
10 a.m. - 12 p.m. EST on Tuesday, 10/03/23, Thursday, 10/05/23, and Wednesday, 10/11/23
The Interdependence: Global Solidarity and Local Actions Toolkit is a collective on-line learning initiative to bring together educators, organizers, and learners who all share a commitment to building more just, inclusive, and sustainable communities.
The Toolkit is adapted in myriad ways; including for setting expectations in civic engagement projects or education abroad, pre-travel considerations of applied ethical research, preparing for place-based learning, cross-cultural/ international team building, in lieu of a textbook for a social/global issues course, as ‘flipped classroom’ group work, and beyond. The theme-based template allows users to scale their approach, picking and choosing from the multi-dimensional offerings to engage in many facets of one theme through different formats (visual, audio, text, discussion prompts, etc.). The pages are also designed so that learners can engage with them at their own pace, or along a set timeline; both synchronously and asynchronously. View the toolkit and half a dozen syllabi application examples at the links.
Over 3 days and 8 hours in October (6 synchronous and 2 asynchronous), this professional development opportunity will take participants through concrete examples of how the Toolkit is being implemented and create space for participants to develop applications for their own institutional and organizational contexts. Register here.
Outcomes:
Become familiar with the content of the Toolkit and have several concrete examples of how it can be applied.
Work on an individualized application of Toolkit content for participant contexts (workshop, course syllabus, pre-departure orientation, etc.).
Connect with others who are committed to building more just, inclusive, and sustainable communities.
Gain preliminary understanding of how to facilitate Toolkit content.
Schedule:
3 - 2 hour sessions in October 2023
Participants need to attend all sessions
8 hours of engagement total (6 synchronous and 2 asynchronous)
Tuesday, October 5th 10 am -12 pm EST, Thursday, October 5th 10am -12 pm EST and Wednesday, October 11th 10 am - 12 pm EST
Facilitators and Bios:
Samantha Brandauer is currently Associate Provost and ED of the Center for Global Study and Engagement at Dickinson College, co-director of the Community-based Global Learning Collaborative and co-editor of the Interdependence: Global Solidarity and Local Actions Toolkit. As a career-long international educator she is working toward an international education model that is a force for positive and equitable change across all the people and communities it impacts. She has been an invited facilitator, panelist and presenter for organizations and institutions such as NAFSA, the Forum on Education Abroad, the Institute of International Education, the Community-based Global Learning Collaborative and Global Engagement in the Liberal Arts. She has worked at the Institute of International Education; the University of Maryland; Brown University; Study Abroad in Scandinavia in Denmark and Gettysburg College. She holds an M.A. in International Communication from American University.
Erin Sabato is currently the Director of Global Learning at Quinnipiac University. In her role, she directs and oversees all faculty-led and community-based global learning programs for the university. She also teaches courses for the Quinnipiac School of Engineering, School of Health Sciences, School of Education and College of Arts and Sciences, in addition to teaching part-time at Gateway Community College in New Haven, CT. She has presented and been a panelist for organizations including but not limited to, the Association of American Colleges and Universities, NAFSA, International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement, and the Association of Academic Programs in Latin America and the Caribbean. She holds a Master of Arts in Media, Peace, and Conflict Studies from the United Nations mandated University for Peace, Costa Rica.
Nedra Sandiford is currently the Administrative Director for Dickinson College’s Spanish Immersion Program in Málaga, Spain. In this role, among other duties, she has been working to advance the intersection of diversity, equity, inclusion and intercultural competence through on-site orientations with students, workshops and training. Nedra has created content for the Toolkit, facilitated workshops and given talks for organizations including but not limited to Diversity Abroad, The Forum on Education Abroad, the American Council on Education and the Institute for International Education. She holds an M.A. in International Affairs from The New School.