![]() ![]() How can we, as teachers, create classrooms that tap students’ innate desire and capability to shape a better world and how can we use this as a catalyst to develop our students’ knowledge, skills, understanding, and dispositions? Worldwise Learning delivers what it promises. Zoe Weil ― President and Co-Founder, Institute for Humane Education This brilliant and essential book provides the vision, blueprint, examples, and direction that teachers can utilize right now to ensure their students – and the world they will shape – are both able to thrive. This book is a must for all those who want their children to graduate with optimism and skills to design a more compassionate, sustainable tomorrow, Today! - Kiran Bir Sethi ― Founder, The Riverside School and Design for ChangeĮducating young people to be ‘worldwise’ and to integrate heart, head, and hand in order to become the citizens the world so desperately needs has just become a whole lot easier. What you get are simple, yet mature frameworks and proven strategies to support educators in empowering their students with the tools to see the wondrous interconnectedness of life and their role to sustain and nourish this web. This book starts with the ‘WHY" and sets out to invite the ‘WHO’ into designing the journey of change. Often most curricular reforms start with asking ’What’ to change - resulting in recycled old ways to teach the ’same’ - garnished with activities that masquerade as agency. Worldwise Learning turns students into local and global citizens who feel genuine concern for the world around them, living their learning with intention and purpose. QR codes that link to additional lesson and unit plans, educational resources, videos of strategies, and interviews with educators and thought leaders on a companion website, where teachers can discuss topics and share ideas with each other.An exemplar unit plan that illustrates how the planning process links to and can support teaching and learning about global challenges.Stories that spotlight Worldwise Learning in action from diverse student, teacher, and organization perspectives. ![]()
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