Essential Question:
Why is personal connection important when learning about global issues?

Key Takeaways:

• Establishing community partnerships outside of our local community
• The power of collaboration
• Connecting with global issues that don’t present in our local community (in this case water scarcity)

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Episode Summary
On this episode I meet Finley, a young changemaker from Frankfurt International School. Despite living in a place that has easy access to safe, clean water, Finley became connected with this important global issue through reading an amazing book by Linda Sue Park and listening to Nantume and Nkoba share their work on the Empathy to Impact podcast. Through the support of his family and a school program that nurtures young changemakers, Finley has been able to turn his passion for safe, clean water into a global collaboration that is impacting the lives of entire villages and the families living there.

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Essential Question:
How might we empower students to build community connections as an extension of their learning in the classroom?

Key Takeaways:

• Integrating the UN Sustainable Development Goals into an existing learning experience
• Extending learning beyond the classroom through community partnerships
• How to break down a big global issue by exploring what this issue looks like, sounds like and feels like in our own communities
• Celebrating and showcasing our learning in our community

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Episode Summary
On this episode, we visit the International School of Uganda to connect with grade 5 students to celebrate their work in the PYP exhibition. My guests Leah, Lila, Mya, Ariel, Reagan, & Fin share their story with me about how they connected with global issues that they cared about personally, designed their own inquiry, and went on a learning journey to become more deeply aware of these issues and how the impact their local community. They participated in field trips and site visits around Uganda to connect and learn from community partners to determine an impactful action that they might be able to take to advocate for and raise awareness about these important issues. We had some technical difficulties with Internet connection during the interview, and in some places, our sound quality is not 100%, but I would encourage you to focus on the story and the transformative learning that these students were engaged in and shared out with their community at the PYP exhibition..

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• Connect with more stories from the Inspire Citizens network in our vignettes
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• You can book a discovery call with Inspire Citizens at this link
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Essential Question
How are you inspiring and empowering student leaders in your school?

Key Takeaways:

1. The importance of designing school programs that develop leadership skills.
2. The “how” of developing a student leadership program.
3. The impact inspired student leaders will have in your school and in your community.

Episode Summary
My guests on this episode are Bloomy and Mig, two seniors attending the International School of Bangkok. You might be interested in hiring them to lead your next corporate retreat. Participating in a program co-designed by Inspire Citizens along with the student-leaders themselves, they created a portrait of a leader that included skills and dispositions like empathy, critical thinking, active listening, interpersonal skills, and more. They then went through a series of workshops led by Inspire Citizens to bring this portrait to life within themselves. From there they took what they learned and applied it to their leadership roles in clubs and councils across the school. Most recently, with the support of a dedicated group of teachers at ISB, they led their own leadership workshops to build capacity within the school and empower the next student-leaders who will succeed them when they graduate. Book a discovery call at the link in the show notes to learn more about how Inspire Citizens might support student-leaders at your school.

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Episode Summary

On this episode I meet Skyler from Tokyo International School. At the time of recording this episode, she was finishing up grade 5, and had just wrapped up the PYP exhibition at her school. Skyler is passionate about fast fashion and its impact on Earth’s resource and sustainability. Listen to this episode to become more deeply aware of this issue that is so important to all of us, perhaps especially young people, and learn how we can all be part of the solution by making more sustainable choices when it comes to fashion.

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Episode Summary

On this episode, I meet Dana & Yani. At the time of recording, they were 1st grade students at the International School of Kigali, Rwanda. Their learning in class integrated SDG 3, good health and well-being. They explored the many facets of wellness, and investigated a variety of practices to improve the well-being of both themselves and their community. These students, along with their classmates, became experts, and ran workshops for older students, teachers, and the parent community to share their learning, and to highlight the importance of good health and well-being. They even share one of their favorite mindfulness practices at the end of the episode. As you listen, consider what will-being practices might be a good fit in your community.

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Episode Summary

Louisa, Rani, Tul, & Rena are students at NIST in Bangkok. They share a passion for environmental sustainability. Listen as they share about the diverse opportunities they have as students to engage in service learning, and how they are developing leadership skills through their involvement in community projects through their service clubs, and participation in Service Co, a student organization that oversees 50+ service clubs across campus. Service learning really is a gateway to community engagement and positive change and cultivates a changemaker mindset that will carry on beyond school.

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• At the time of publishing, COJOWA is working on permission from all parties to share the documentary that the students created. Stay tuned. Hopefully we will be able to share the documentary soon.
• If you would like to learn more about this project you can read more here.
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Episode Summary

On this episode, I connect with Isabella, Miguel, Sebastian, Indalecio & Susana, recent graduates of Colegio Jorge Washington in Cartagena, Colombia. Listen how these students, as part of an integrated unit that combined Spanish and sociales (social studies), connected with a local community, conducted a needs assessment, developed a collaborative partnership, and used their expertise to design and prototype solutions. Listen as they discuss the project and the roles they took on as part of the collaboration.

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Episode Summary

At the American School of Dhahran, an ISG school in Saudi Arabia, there is an initiative to develop compassion in the middle school. In collaboration with Ivy Yan from Inspire Citizens, students participated in workshops that focused on compassion for self, compassion for others and compassion for nature. From there, students collaborated in groups to design projects, within their school, based on compassion. The student-led initiative that we are focusing on in this episode is Flipping the Switch for a Better Day led by grade 8 students, Apoovra, Maazen, and Rishi. Listen to learn more.