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On the plane coming back to the United States, I was able to reflect on this class and the encounters we had in Europe. I was first overwhelmed with gratitude on how lucky we were to be able to experience global education with the inema students. After listening to their ideas, I was able to

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What is cultural competency and what does it look like in an organization?  I found a blog post by Deeta Jones on cultural competency and what that actually means for an organization. Cultural Competency: What Organizations Need to Know According to Jones, “Cultural competence is about our will and actions to build understanding between people,

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After getting about 100 hours of sleep and finally overcoming my jet lag, I started to collect my thoughts about our trip overseas. This is a little overwhelming as words cannot accurately describe all of the feelings and emotions that have built up in my head over this past two weeks. One prominent feeling that

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As I start the arduous journey of consolidating my thoughts into coherent words and overlapping them with theoretical principles I’m finding myself making actual business plans. I’ve mentioned that my family volunteered with an organization focused on serving refugee and migrant populations last year, Viva la Casa. Upon further research, I’ve found that this organization

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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

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As I reintegrate back into my regular routine in the states, I have started solidifying my comparisons between this country and Germany. What I know for sure, is that we are more behind than we may think. I have shared my experience visiting with the GWW Campus Mensch organization and witnessed the stunned reaction of

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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

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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

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  When we talk about Caring Leadership, whether in an office or school setting, we are most often referring to the way in which a leader (boss, teacher, principal) cares about their colleagues or students.  We might also be referring to how all the employees or students treat one another.  What we often forget to

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