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    The Interdependence Institute
     
    Mission Statement
     
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    The Interdependence Institute promotes global awareness and fosters global perspectives. The Institute highlights curricular work being implemented throughout the District and creates opportunities for students and staff to investigate and understand the forces that are shaping our interdependent world, including demographics, economics, religion, and technology.  This K-12 initiative helps students develop the following global competencies to become active global citizens.


    Global Competencies

    • Global Awareness and Knowledge

         - Develop local, regional and global sensitivity

         - Acquire geographic knowledge

         - Examine current issues and events

         - Connect local to global

    • Recognize Perspective

         - Counteract cultural stereotypes.

         - Deepen inter-cultural understandings through personal experiences and educational exchanges.

         - Recognize, articulate, and apply an understanding of different perspectives

    • Communicate Ideas

         - Apply critical and creative thinking skills

         - Listen actively and engage in inclusive dialogue

         - Frame questions, analyze and synthesize relevant evidence, and draw reasonable conclusions

    • Take Action

         - Engage students and teachers in authentic, experiential learning and service-learning projects

         - Adopt shared responsibility and take collaborative action

     
     
     
    Steering Committee
     
     

    McIntosh, Edgar (Chair)

    Bedoya, Carlos

    Block, Emily

    Eisenstandt, Eve

    Gonzalez, Malula

    Harrison, John

    Johnson, Shaun

    Lahey, Meghan

    Laman, Barbara

    Lamonaca, Lorella

    Leech, Mary

    Nassau, Jen

    Nee, Ann Marie

    O’Gorman Andrea

    Phillips, Carole

    Rothman, Marci

    Toscano, Jose

    Troy, Meghan

    Waters, Heather

     
     
     
    Scarsdale teachers believe in the importance of being globally connected. Activities that raise global awareness and explore international perspectives happen in Scarsdale on a regular basis and can range from brief classroom activities to broad district-wide initiatives. 
     
     
    Please, help us share your wonderful international endeavors with other teachers and the community! We encourage faculty members to highlight this exciting work on the Interdependence Institute's schoolwires pages or twitter feed. Feel free to contact Shaun Johnson to showcase your work on twitter or to add an event to our calendar. Twitter is the perfect platform to showcase interdependence activities quickly. You can also simply use our hashtag #interdependenceInst or mention us @InterdependenceInst to highlight your work. Shaun can then re-tweet those activities from our page. To add or update a schoolwires page to illustrate your work on the global competencies listed above, contact José Toscano or Shaun Johnson.