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World Savvy will be exhibiting at this year’s annual Minnesota Association of School Administrators’ (MASA) spring conference on Thursday, March 9, 2023 thru Friday, March 10, 2023.

Stop by our booth to hear about our exciting new partnership with Superintendent Dr. Michael Thomas and the leadership team at Prior Lake-Savage Area Schools and our other great partnerships with Minnesota schools!

World Savvy will exhibit at the 2023 CASE Winter Leadership Conference in Loveland, CO!

Join us and public education leaders from across Colorado for two-days of learning, networking, and community. This year’s event will focus on the theme of Excellence By Association, and features Peyton Manning as the keynote speaker. You can learn more by visiting the Colorado Association of School Executive’s website.

If you’re attending, we’d love to learn more about your school and share some of our custom solutions. We hope to see you there!

Join World Savvy at the National Conference on Education, presented by the American Association of School Administrators (AASA), in San Antonio, TX!

The National Conference on Education is a premier professional development and networking event for school superintendents and administrators. Attendees will hear from educational thought leaders who are championing national school systems while gaining new approaches to invigorate their own school districts.

Register today to secure your spot, and don’t forget to visit World Savvy at booth #639!

Actionable Innovations Global is hosting the first-ever digital Global Learning for an Open World (GLOW) Conference on November 18th – 19th, 2022. World Savvy is thrilled to be featured as the premier partner and join the tremendous list of keynote and featured speakers.

The GLOW Conference will create a dedicated space for global educators to connect and ideate around global competency. GLOW will offer 30 hours of uninterrupted digital content from education experts around the world. Sessions will range from keynote speeches to interactive workshops and live interviews. All content is free to view worldwide.

Register today to watch World Savvy’s Dana Mortenson, Molly Dengler, and Whitney McKinley present!

Don’t Miss World Savvy’s Featured Speakers:

Friday, November 18^th:

Dana Mortenson
Global Competency for a Changing World  |  9:00 – 9:50 am CT

• Dana Mortenson, co-founder of World Savvy, will explore how the larger ‘global education’ movement needs to evolve to support an inclusive framework all schools can use to create future-ready education. With significant political division and polarization in communities across the U.S. and K–12 schools often the arena where these battles play out, it has never been more urgent to embed global competency into teaching, learning, and culture in systemic ways—for civic engagement, workforce readiness, and global problem-solving. This keynote will explore this new landscape, describe promising innovative approaches that are propelling this movement forward, and outline how we can leverage the current legislative environment as a tipping point for this important work.

Maria Hersey, World Savvy Director of Strategic Partnerships
GLOW MEETUP: Let’s Talk Global Competence |  1:30 – 2:30 pm CT

• This is an informal and conversational meetup hosted by GLOW partners, World Savvy. Come share what it means to be globally competent and ideas for fostering global competence in teachers and students. Check out World Savvy’s matrix to learn more about global competence!

Molly Dengler, World Savvy Professional Learning Facilitator
Deep Inquiry for Global Competence  |  4:00 – 4:50 pm CT

• How does inquiry support global competence development for our students and ourselves? In a world where we are inundated with information and misinformation every minute of every day, it has never been more important for young people to be curious, critical thinkers. This session will explore what actions educators can take to successfully use case studies to cultivate curiosity and build the essential skills students need to thrive in a global community.

Saturday, November 19^th:

Whitney McKinley, World Savvy Lead Professional Learning Facilitator, and KK Neimann, World Savvy Director of Professional Learning
Centering Global Competence in the Classroom: Beyond Theory and into Practice  |  11:00 – 11:50 am CT

• In this session, we will hear from teachers who have shifted their practice to center the development of global competence in their students. In a moderated discussion, these educators will share what works, what hasn’t, and what keeps them committed to this work. This action-oriented session will focus on the fundamental shifts and changes that teacher practitioners have engaged with when ensuring that global competence is at the center of learning and teaching.

Dana Mortenson, Cindy Derrane, and Margo Fraczek
Educator Insight: Building Student-Centered Classrooms that Develop Global Competency  |  12:00 – 12:50 pm CT

• Join veteran World Savvy educators and school leaders as they share perspectives on cultivating student-centered, inclusive, equitable learning environments that develop global competency. Using World Savvy’s frameworks for inquiry and knowledge-to-action, these educators have embedded global competence deeply into their teaching and leadership. They will share how a student-centered approach to global competencies changes outcomes for students and the entire school community.

Come celebrate the art of teaching and explore the ways we can prepare young people for active and engaged global citizenship.

World Savvy’s work is grounded in a set of Evidence-Based Principles that leverage 20 years of experience embedding Global Competence into K-12 teaching, learning, and school culture. Preparing young people to thrive in a diverse, complex, and interconnected world is an awesome task, and to graduate the engaged citizens that this world needs, we must reimagine what we are doing in our classrooms and schools. In this workshop, we will explore what global competence is, why it is important, and how we can get it done. Using World Savvy frameworks, participants will …

• Think about the educator they want to be and the educator their students need them to be;
• Identify concrete actions they can take in their classrooms to develop the skills and dispositions we know young people need to thrive in their ever-changing communities, locally and globally.

The event will be held at Sonoma State University in Ruben Salazar Hall, Room 1047. Admission is $25. Lunch will be provided.

World Savvy CEO and co-founder Dana Mortenson will be a keynote speaker at EF’s Global Education Symposium in Boston, MA. The conference theme is wellness in the context of global learning.

2022 EF Professional Learning Tour: October 6th – 10th in Panama
World Savvy CEO and Co-founder Dana Mortenson and Director of Professional Learning KK Neimann are special guests and speakers at Education First’s Professional Learning Tour in Panama. The tour is a 5-day professional learning experience focused on building and enhancing Global Competency in school districts nationwide.

World Savvy’s CEO and co-founder Dana Mortenson will join a panel of speakers for Johns Hopkins University’s “Hopkins at Home” livestream event.

About this event
Why should taking a global perspective be a central element of our teaching and of our classrooms? Join Hopkins at Home and Dr Laurence Peters, who created Hopkins’ first course on Global Education Policy in the School of Education and who recently published Creating the Global Classroom: Approaches to Developing the Next Generation of World Savvy Students, for a panel discussion on exactly this question. Featuring three leading experts on global education, this session will cover why we should care about understanding global learning contexts, the benefits for students of implementing such practices, and effective ways to integrate this perspective in your own classroom. It should be an engaging hour providing plenty of useful insights into the ways that global perspectives can enrich your teaching.

Speakers

Dr. Laurence Peters

Dana Mortenson, CEO World Savvy

Kirsten Hagen, Specialist, Global Studies, DC Public Schools

Jennifer Adams, Program Director, Global and International Education, Drexel University

Globalization has redefined and reshaped our job market, our classrooms, and our communities. Today’s students are challenged more than ever before by increased cultural diversity, global connectivity, and polarization of perspectives. So how can leaders in classrooms, schools, districts, and education arenas support students’ development of competencies to thrive in college, careers, and as citizens in diverse communities? Join us to explore how one district is using educational travel experiences abroad as a catalyst for developing a global ecosystem centered around diversity, equity, inclusion, and future-readiness.

After the presentation, join us for a happy hour at the Icehouse at 2528 Nicollet Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55404.

Presenters: Amy Boscan, Career & Technical Education, Global Studies & World Languages Coordinator – Parkway School District, Missouri; Jenni Williams, Director of Strategic Partnerships – EF Educational Tours