OUR ESTEEMED JUDGE

JENNIFER D. KLEIN,

Professional Development Director, comes to World Leadership School with a wealth of experience in the classroom and the world. She is the Director of Educational Development for the Research Journalism Initiative, people and the use of their media projects in American classrooms, and she teaches graduate-level e-courses in global education for TakingITGlobal. She holds a BA from Bard College and an MA from the University of Colorado at Boulder, both in Literature and Creative Writing. She taught college and high school English for 19 years, including a wide array of educational writing, appearing regularly in publications such as Independent School and The NSSSA Leader.

A product of early models of experiential learning herself, Jennifer holds a principal’s license and has an extensive background in curriculum development and experiential, project-based learning. Since she joined WLS in 2010, Jennifer has provided direct support to the global efforts of the Berkeley Carroll School (an NAIS School of the Future, New York), Appleby College (Ontario), Greens Farms Academy (Connecticut), St. Mary’s Academy (Colorado), Ensworth School (Tennessee), Virginia Episcopal School, Windward School (California), the Town School for Boys (California), and the Moses Brown School (Rhode Island).

Jennifer D. Klein

UNTITLED, INSPIRED BY MORNING, THE PHOTOGRAPH

somewhere else simultaneous in their green lushness and barren stark light from the window of the train i watched children peek from behind ruined houses and pressed my hand against the glass to touch them the man sitting across from me saw only garbage slipping across the grass mumbled something about people who don't know how to throw away their trash and apparently got irritated and moved away when i insisted that disenfranchisement looks an awful lot like laziness and i wondered how neatly trimmed his life would be without that coat and the latest gear without the chance to feel better than someone else without the chance to throw his own trash out the window of the train

by Mohammad Faraj