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 […]
July 2018 Summer learning, connecting, and capacity building continues. We are thankful to all of our thought partners in this work, including participants in our courses, our summer working group, and all those who make themselves available to meet and discuss ideas and approaches with us. Among these great partners, we are fortunate to work […]
How Micro-Credentialing is Helping Teachers – ALook Through the Lens of the Refugee EducatorAcademy No matter our relationship to the education system in the United States, most of us are familiar with teacher in-service days. School is closed, students are off for the day and teachers attend one-off professional development seminars which have been designed […]
June 2018 For many educators in the Global North, summer is a time to slow down (a bit), reflect on practice, engage with colleagues through trainings and other professional development opportunities, and prepare for the new school year. Here, at the Carey Institute for Global Good, we too are engaged in these learning and reflective […]
April 2019 Note from the Director “Springing” Into Action! Happy spring! Highlights of the 1st quarter of 2019 include the wrap up of a training course developed with Plan Egypt for teachers of Syrian refugees in Egypt and conducted in Arabic, as well as enrollment of the first cohort of teachers for the Refugee Educator […]
May 2018 About Practice Notes Practice Notes is the new Center for Learning in Practice monthly newsletter. In it we talk about our own practice, matters of importance or interest to the larger learning in practice community, as well as our schedule of courses, activities, and events. If you would like to contribute a practice […]
New York State Department of Education certifies Carey Institute’s Center for Learning in Practice as Continuing Teacher and Leader Education (CTLE) Provider Teachers can earn CTLE-approved credits to develop knowledge and skills to serve refugee students Rensselaerville, N.Y. – The Carey Institute’s Center for Learning in Practice has been certified to be an approved sponsor of Continuing Teacher […]