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We create opportunities for teachers and students to connect, learn, care and act with their global peers. Curriculum design, virtual exchange/online collaboration projects and service learning facilitation are among the services that we offer. We are currently focused on facilitating learning, empathy development and taking action to address the UN Sustainable Development Goals, teaching students to understand our interdependence and vital role in the ecosystem of our planet. In the growing field of global education, we are always finding new ways to connect and foster global citizenship.Clients include: Qatar Foundation International, Doha Debates, The Stevens Initiative, Elisa Sednoui Foundation, The Language Link, CMU's CREATE Lab, Seattle Public Schools, Amigos de Santa Cruz, MapWorks Learning, Creative Connections, Global Visionaries, Maker Majlis at Hamad Bin Khalifa University.

AMIGOS DE SANTA CRUZ works to improve the lives of the indigenous people of Santa Cruz and surrounding villages through education and sustainable economic empowerment.

Program design and implementation management, international relationships and collaboration, intern recruitment and management, university relationships, cross cultural facilitation, teacher training and workshop design, curriculum development and adaptation. Management of virtual exchange and collaborative multimedia production across seven countries- Peru, Guatemala, India, South Africa, United States and Canada.

Over the course of two years, we completed a Curriculum Development Project in which 18 teachers in 5 countries tested digital storytelling curriculum in their classrooms and collaborated on improvements that would reach their own goals as well as the goals of the group. This cohort model was repeated and a 75 page curriculum "Digital Storytelling in the Classroom" published incorporating the classroom tested materials and furthering the effort to create international collaboration curriculum for global competence. The following year we applied the same method to produce "Climate Change: An Opportunity" which aimed to understand how the warming of the planet could cultivate our love for the natural world and inspire us to change our habits and behaviors to favor a healthy environment.

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Social Work/Education