I am proud to be part of a multicultural school community that celebrates the fact that 47% of our students are students of color and their families hail from 35 different nations. Our international flag garden, which borders the campus, is representative of our community. It’s the landmark for which our school is best
I’ve been doing a lot of reading recently. About Caring Leadership and Cultural Humility. And this has caused me to reflect. I’ve sat in many classes for countless hours examining and re-examining educational leadership, and more recently global leadership, during the course of my master’s program in educational leadership & policy studies. I’ve heard so
After a week immersed in this course, and a few days back home, I’ve had time to reflect on what it means to be culturally sensitive. I’ve thought long and hard about how a community, who practices cultural humility, behaves? I learned a big lesson from being thrust into an international community of strangers where
One of the things I learned when traveling in Germany is that words can be long and new words can be formed by stringing many words together. The point of this is that I never quite could say the name of the organization I visited during excursion day. The Baden-Württemberg Stiftung (BW Stifftung), which translates to
We visited the Gottlieb-Daimler Realschule in Germany last week. It’s located in the town of Ludwigsburg, which is situated in the suburb of Neckarraum, in the state of Baden-Württembergstate not far from Stuttgart. There are fourteen elementary schools in Ludwigsburg, one Werkrealschule (secondary school, grades 8/9), two Realschulen (secondary grades 6-12), two community schools, one special
When I first heard about this class I was intrigued. I thought it sounded interesting of course. And I also thought that it aligned with my love of travel and my interest in other cultures. If I could have another career I would choose anthropology. And then, out of the blue, something marvelous happened. I
I had the opportunity to visit the Baden Würtemberg Stiftung this week. This translates to the Baden Würtemberg Foundation. Baden Würtemberg is the name of the state we are visiting and the foundation’s mission is to ensure the sustainability of the state by focusing on research, education and society and culture. A non-partisan supervisory board
I’ve been wondering about how I can integrate the lessons learned from this class into my school, and our time with the INEMA students this week has solidified it for me. I plan to implement some cultural sensitivity training and while I’m certain this will not be recieved as a huge “wow” factor at first,
What a strange and small world we live in! You can literally move between continents within a few hours and find yourself surrounded by a group of people you’ve never met before, and voilà you are discussing globalization. You are in a small group with two other people from different countries who are kind enough
So looking forward to our time in Ludwigsburg and can’t wait to meet our Inema partners! Safe travels everyone.