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Ideas@Work: Curriculum, Programs and Practices in Independent Schools

Category: Global Education - Global Education Programs, Initiatives & Projects - Global Sustainability (choose another category)
Records: 41

BEADS
BEADS is a service mission to Africa comprised of faculty and students that assists a different Benedictine school each summer.

Chicken Art
Chicken Art, as simple as it sounds, remains a project that has allowed our students to live our school’s mission and in that process to meet the needs of students and their teachers in a small village school in South Africa.

Collaborating across Borders
Marymount School of New York is part of an international network of schools of the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary (RSHM), with sister schools in Paris, London, Rome, Los Angeles, and other European and South American cities. They share a common mission and goals and collaborate on ways to inf ...

Community Service Odysseys Leading Edge Program Honoree
These trips are one to two weeks long and include host family stays, cultural immersion, and community service projects coordinated by the hosting organizations of Club de Leone’s International Santo Domingo, Pro-Peru and Compas de Nicaragua.

Creating Safe Havens
In 2008-2009, we are creating "safe havens" through conducting bird house designing workshops for families. All the money raised will go to a school in Rwanda.

Crossroads Teen AIDS Ambassadors Leading Edge Program Honoree
The Crossroads Teen AIDS Ambassadors are educator-activists, grades 8-12, trained at the UCLA AIDS Institute, working towards the eradication of HIV/AIDS.

Dignity Center
The Dignity Center (TDC) is a curricular program, a place within The Orchard School, and a community lighthouse for global readiness. As a transformative program designed to prepare students for a complex, global society, TDC provides experiences to cultivate the skills and attitudes necessary for c ...

Dolphins Communications Project at Pine Point
Cross Cultural Links with Pine Point and Mikura Island School.

Early Childhood Bilingual Immersion Program
The Awty International School’s Early Childhood Department is a completely dual language, English/French or English/Spanish, immersion learning program containing the following sections: age three, age four, and Kindergarten. Students alternate full days in English and their chosen second language. ...

George School's Global Service Program
The Global Service Program is designed to enhance the scope and quality of international service trips for secondary school students by providing training programs for adult leaders and by sponsoring transformative international experiences for students.

Global Citizenship and Social Change Curriculum
Wilbraham and Monson Academy is offering a series of regional studies courses entitled "Global Citizenship and Social Change" (GCSC curriculum). The courses are each one-trimester long, and focus on Africa, Latin America, and Asia, with one region per trimester.

Global Education Curriculum at Head-Royce School
Information about the Head-Royce School Curriculum

Global Perspectives
Global Perspectives is an eighth grade elective. It focuses on a variety of areas related to current global issues: politics, social issues, science, health, the environment, etc. Members of the class learn about the selected issues and their impact on different peoples of the world.

Global Sustainability at Brimmer and May

Grace Exchange Program
The Grace Exchange Program is an expanding program of international home-stays, school visits, and touring exchanges, integrated into the Grace curriculum and bringing benefits to the entire Grace community and the communities with which Grace exchanges.

Hawk's Eye View
The Hawk’s Eye View of Katrina evolved in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. As we returned to school in October of 2005, the impact she had on New Orleans was painfully evident. The development of the Hawk’s Eye View involved the collaboration of teachers across departments and divisions to explor ...

Head-Royce School's Global Partnerships and Speakers
Head-Royce School's Global Partnerships

Head-Royce School's Professional Development Programs
Head-Royce School's Professional Development Programs

Head-Royce School's Travel, Study, and Service Programs
Head-Royce School's Travel, Study, and Service Programs

Helping Hands
As an outgrowth of this year’s Challenge 20/20 project on Global Infectious Disease, the Global Issues class at St. Mary’s Episcopal School discovered that the single most effective way to prevent the spread of infectious disease was through proper hand hygiene. In the search for a sustainable solut ...

International Day
International Day is an annual day-long event for our students, preschool through eighth grade, which focuses on a particular region of the world.

International Study Programs
Choate Rosemary Hall offers eight- to ten-week programs of study in Beijing, China; Paris, France; La Coruna, Spain; and Rome, Italy.

Joint Environmental Mission
The Joint Environmental Mission (JEM) program is an intercontinental program designed to create lasting international friendships and environmental stewardship. Founded in 1991 by collaborating Soviet and Buckingham Friends School teachers, JEM now consists of permanent partner schools in Russia, In ...

Leadership One and Leadership Two
Leadership One and Two are sequential courses that are offered to all 300 seventh and eighth graders. The curriculum is unique in that it has an experiential foundation and focuses on teaching the skills of intercultural understanding and global awareness.

Leadership and Character Development
The curriculum identifies important processes, skills, and opportunities that promote leadership. It suggests ways that the content and activities being offered at Highland can support the development and practice of global leadership skills for students. While certain topics and skills will be high ...

Lincoln Early Childhood Language Exposure Program
Inspired by how easily young children acquire language, Lincoln School (RI) has offered an innovative program since September 2006, in which children from the ages of two through second grade are exposed to French and Spanish for two hours per week in each language.

Middle Division Community Service and Club Program
This program has continued to evolve since its inception as our school has come to understand that we are responsible for educating responsible, positive, and compassionate world citizens.

Middle Eastern Studies/Model Arab League Program
This one-term course is an examination of the politics, economics, religions, and cultures of the modern Middle East.

Mika Project
In June 2006, two faculty members, the head of school, and six rising seniors travelled to Mika, Tanzania, for two weeks of service.

Missions Program
The missions program provides spiritual and leadership development through service opportunities in the United States and around the world.

Nexus
Nexus is an innovative academic program that connects our students with unique parts of the world. Each program augments academics through experiential education, exposure to global diversity, community improvement projects, and adventure in underdeveloped nations.

Peace Education Curriculum
The Montessori School of Denver Peace Curriculum focuses on four areas that are designed to empower our students to be good citizens of the world and resolve their own conflicts. The four foci are self-awareness, community awareness, cultural awareness, and environmental awareness.

St. John's Episcopal School - Global Education Resources
Information about global programs at St. John's Episcopal School

Strategic Plan for International Programs at Ravenscroft School
At Ravenscroft, the primary mission of our International Programs is to serve as the central coordinating body and as a leader for the international education, programs, and activities of Ravenscroft School and to increase the school’s global profile. We seek to enhance, enrich, and broaden our stud ...

Team Tobatí Leading Edge Program Honoree
Team Tobatí is a Kingswood-Oxford (Connecticut) student organization seeking to raise the standard of living of the impoverished majority of Tobatí, Paraguay. With the active support of local Tobatí community leaders and Connecticut area hospitals and universities, the team actively supports the imp ...

Tender Age: Harley Kolkata Experience
The program brings Harley School seniors participating in our year-long program “Hospice 101/102," to the bedside of the dying at Kalighat, Mother Teresa’s facility for the dying/indigent poor in Kolkata, India.

Tenth Grade Exchange Program
Cary Academy (CA) has developed an innovative international exchange program for all students in grade 10. Designed to accelerate the development of the second language skills of students by providing natural and immediately relevant context for their use of the target language, it also fosters the ...

The St. John’s World Village Experience
This profile contains information about the St. John's World Village Experience.

Ursuline/Huaxia Exchange
In 1997, Ursuline Academy of Dallas and Huaxia Academy of Beijing signed an agreement to be sister schools.

Westminster-Mount Kenya Academy Exchange Program
This exchange program involves upper school students and teachers from Westminster traveling to Mount Kenya Academy in Nyeri, Kenya, for two weeks, followed by teachers and students from Mount Kenya Academy coming to Westminster for two weeks.

Youth Conference on Political Activism
The Youth Conference on Political Activism, now in its sixth year, sponsors keynote speakers, workshops, and panels that address such broad subjects as Racism in Schools, Health in Mali, the School of the Americas, the War on Terrorism, the Palestinian and Isreali Dilemma, Alternative Sources of Ene ...