A PUBLICATION OF THE ALBERTA COUNCIL FOR GLOBAL COOPERATION
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SPRING 2015
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Educator Profile: Shannon Boyle As a teacher of Social Studies Grade 7 and 9, and English Grade 9 at St. Michael School in Calgary, Shannon Boyle strives to provide meaningful, experiential learning opportunities for her students, helping them to create connections between the curriculum and the world around them. Shannon is the leader of St. Michael Water Warriors, which is affiliated with the Centre for Affordable Water and Sanitation Technology (CAWST) Youth Wavemakers program. Youth Wavemakers is a unique water education program that informs, engages, encourages action, and celebrates the impact that youth are having on local and global water and sanitation issues. Through this program, the students have been engaged in a number of projects, from creating weekly educational
announcements, to completing a retrofit of urinals and water fountains in their school in order to conserve water. The Water Warriors have been so successful with their action projects, they were invited to create a water awareness public service announcement video for the City of Calgary. “If teachers want to construct a more equitable, more meaningful and livelier environmental experience for their students, they must concern themselves with environmental and social issues beyond the classroom walls,” states Shannon. To do this, Shannon will guide her students on a Water Walk on May 8th, which will engage students to apply their environmental knowledge and skills to real world issues, and to interact with, develop compassion for, and take action in the places where students learn, create, and play. Shannon was a participant in ACGC’s 2014 Global Citizenship
ACGC is proud to host the Global Citizenship Summer Institute (GCSI) again this summer in partnership with the Centre for Global Citizenship Education & Research (CGCER). This week-long institute is a unique opportunity for educators from across Alberta to convene on the beautiful University of Alberta campus to learn more about global citizenship and how to effectively integrate it into their classrooms and school environments. This year the Institute will take place from August 10 – 14, 2015 at the University of Alberta.
Summer Institute (GCSI), where she had an opportunity to share her own experience with other educators, and enhance her own teaching practice through learning new ways to engage her students about their school community, global concepts and issues around world. She feels strongly that “experiencing new opportunities and collaborating with like-minded teachers will create a caring and progressive professional community, which enhances all students' success.” To register for GCSI 2015, visit www.acgc.ca.
Facilitated by the Co-Founders of the Centre for Global Citizenship Education & Research (CGCER), Dr. Lynette Shultz and Dr. Ali Abdi, this institute enables participants to develop an informed and active role as global citizen educators whose work will benefit their students and our society. For the institute objectives, cost, and registration information, please visit the ACGC website. To watch videos from last year’s institute, please visit ACGC’s YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/ACGCNow