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We see you, educators! World Savvy is hosting an appreciation event for educators in the Bay Area and beyond. Bring your friends for an evening of refreshments and socializing on a rooftop patio in San Francisco’s financial district to kick off the school year.

We are excited to announce we are hosting an in-person open house in our new Minneapolis headquarters!

Join us to meet and mingle with members of our community – educators, school leaders, donors, and supporters – and connect with World Savvy staff to celebrate our 20th Anniversary! Come see our beautiful new office space, hear inspiring stories about our school partnerships, and look forward to growing local and national impact ahead.

Minneapolis Public Schools educator Laura Guerrero will be our guest speaker at the event! Laura has been a crucial partner in helping teachers embed global competence at Ella Baker Global Studies and Humanities Magnet School. Join Laura at our Open House to learn her top three secrets to successful implementation in partnership with the World Savvy team.

Media is an ever-present factor of our modern lives, so how can we leverage that same media to inspire action for social change? In this workshop, we’ll experience a three-part series from EXPLR Media that encourages viewers to explore how plastics shape and impact our world. Through a video screening and collective inquiry, teams of participants will be challenged to explore their role and responsibility as plastics consumers and will leave ready to take action at the individual, local, or global level.

As part of World Savvy’s 20th anniversary celebration, this workshop introduces educators, donors, Board members, and other supporters to World Savvy’s approach to building global competence through community engagement. Participants will explore the concept of solidarity and the ways we can re-imagine “service days” to create sustainable relationships that benefit everyone. Using a case study of SDG #2: Zero Hunger, we will envision how to equitably engage students in their communities in ways that foster global competence, encourage the co-construction of knowledge through reflection, and support students’ budding self-identities as agents of change.

World Savvy believes in an education system that builds upon the assets and lived experiences of ALL students. To make this a reality, schools need to learn more about the strengths, resilience, and challenges of our immigrant-origin students. This session, which was created in partnership with our friends at Re-Imagining Migration, will provide educators and school leaders with concrete tools for honoring and elevating the voices of their immigrant students. By engaging with Re-Imagining Migration’s story sharing protocol and World Savvy’s inquiry process, participants will explore ways to create inclusive school communities that promote global competence for everyone.

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a global effort to unite civil society, governments, and social institutions in common cause to solve global problems. While this effort has faced significant headwinds due to the pandemic, the SDGs have been called “a blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all”. This session will engage participants in activities and conversations about the SDGs, including background about their content, implementation, limitations, and possibilities for this form of global governance. Opportunities to network on common interests and work will be an integral part of our session. The big questions for our session include:

• What are the SDGs, and why do we have them?
• How are the Goals implemented and measured?
• How are the Goals using music/pop culture/events to raise awareness and engagement?
• What are my interests/work and how do the Goals connect?
• What happens in 2030? What might the next set of goals look like?

Books and stories are invaluable tools in building global competence. They can elevate the lived experiences of everyone in a community, open people up to new ideas and ways of thinking, and provide models for how young people can move through the world. Books can be windows or mirrors, and people need both. In this session, participants will get to hear author and educator Kamie Page read The Invisible You, a beautiful children’s book she co-authored with her father, Justice Alan Page, about feeling different and finding connections. Afterwards, Ms. Page will be available for questions about writing, teaching, storytelling, and the importance of diverse stories. Following dinner and book browsing, children can play at the park while Rebecca Slaby and the team from AMAZEworks lead a discussion with adult participants about how to raise anti-bias/anti-racist children. Those in attendance can also enter their name to win a copy of Kamie and Alan’s latest book, Bee Love (Can be Hard) and an accompanying curriculum guide designed for parents and educators.

Culturally Responsive School Leadership (CRSL) and authentic stakeholder engagement are critical components in developing community-based schools that serve historically marginalized students. At the heart of this practice is ongoing critical self-reflection that leads to actionable change. In this workshop, school leaders will learn the fundamental components of CRSL and use an inquiry lens to reflect on their own leadership strengths and areas of growth. Through authentic self-reflection, open dialogue, and facilitated practice, this session provides school leaders an opportunity to come together to begin, deepen, or re-engage with the practice of Culturally Responsive School Leadership.

Join us to meet and mingle with members of our community – educators, school leaders, donors and supporters – and connect with World Savvy staff to celebrate our 20th Anniversary! From where it all began, hear inspiring stories from World Savvy’s first 20 years, and look forward to growing local and national impact ahead.

Light food and refreshments provided.

World Savvy will be attending this year’s Innovative Schools Summit in New York as an exhibitor. Come by!