Director’s Note: Join me, Dr. Diana Woolis, Director, Center for Learning in Practice in our Teaching and Learning Cafe (TLC) every Wednesday at 10:00 am Eastern Time for an open conversation about teaching and learning. Ask questions, share ideas, and make connections with other learning providers. The discussion series begins on April 15, 2020, and continues […]
Refugee Educator Foundations of Practice Learning Community Pilot Launched A community of 114 educators will join inaugural pilot cohort this summer Rensselaerville, N.Y. – The Carey Institute’s Center for Learning in Practice launched Refugee Educator Foundations of Practice (REFP) Learning Community Pilot on July 15, 2019. A community of 114 educators in the states of […]
Note from the Director What Are You Reading This Summer? Summer in the Northern Hemisphere is just around the corner. For many it is a time for planned vacations and often of reading that thing you have been meaning to read all year or taking a course just for learning’s sake. Or perhaps you are focused on a project that […]
Refugee Educator Foundations of Practice Learning Community Pilot Launched A community of 114 educators will join inaugural pilot cohort this summer Rensselaerville, N.Y. – The Carey Institute’s Center for Learning in Practice launched Refugee Educator Foundations of Practice (REFP) Learning Community Pilot on July 15, 2019. A community of 114 educators in the states of […]
Director’s Note | Number 14 | December 2019 Next Quarterly Newsletter: March 2020 What a Year! We could not have imagined in 2017 when we issued a call for participation in our prototype development workshop for a Refugee Educator Academy, with the framing call to action (below), that so much could happen so fast. Thanks to partners, […]
Director’s Note | Number 13 | September 2019 Next Quarterly Newsletter: December 2019 CLiP Welcomes Jordanian Ministry of Higher Education to the Carey Institute for Faculty Development Design Workshop Co-hosted by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the Carey Institute, the September design workshop included a small team of designers from Yarmouk University, Arizona State University, […]
Note from the Director What Are You Reading This Summer? Summer in the Northern Hemisphere is just around the corner. For many it is a time for planned vacations and often of reading that thing you have been meaning to read all year or taking a course just for learning’s sake. Or perhaps you are focused on a project that […]
Refugee Teacher Gains Resources, Perspective, and Hope Classes held outdoors give students a change of scenery. For eight weeks this summer, Syrian teacher Khaled Jasem traded his 20-by-9-footclassroom in a refugee camp in Zehla–capital of the Governorate of Bekka, roughly 30 miles east of Beirut—for a virtual learning space with educators from 9 countries. Jasem […]
We are excited to announce that we have recently launched The Center for Learning in Practice. Our vision is that every organization and every individual who works for global good will have access to high-value, high-impact, efficacious professional learning and knowledge networks, particularly in the education sector. Our mission is to improve professional learning and […]
Launch of Pilot Program – “Tawasol: Learning Coexistence” The Center for Learning in Practice has recently completed a pilot program that delivered training and support to the leaders of 14 Syrian-led informal learning centers in Egypt. Undertaken in partnership with Plan International Egypt, “Tawasol: Learning Coexistence” was launched in June 2018, responding to the education and child […]