Collaborative Toolkit Workshop

Spring 2024 Series

Learn how the Interdependence Toolkit is being implemented and how it can be applied to specific institutional and organizational contexts.

10 a.m. - 12 p.m. EST on Wednesday, 04/24/24, Friday, 04/26/24, and Monday, 04/30/24

About this event

The Interdependence: Global Solidarity and Local Actions Toolkit is a collective on-line learning initiative to bring together educators, organizers, and learners who all share a commitment to building more just, inclusive, and sustainable communities.

The Toolkit is adapted in myriad ways; including for setting expectations in civic engagement projects or education abroad, pre-travel considerations of applied ethical research, preparing for place-based learning, cross-cultural/ international team building, in lieu of a textbook for a social/global issues course, as ‘flipped classroom’ group work, and beyond. The theme-based template allows users to scale their approach, picking and choosing from the multi-dimensional offerings to engage in many facets of one theme through different formats (visual, audio, text, discussion prompts, etc.). The pages are also designed so that learners can engage with them at their own pace, or along a set timeline; both synchronously and asynchronously.

Over 3 days and 8 hours in April (6 synchronous and 2 asynchronous), this professional development opportunity will take participants through concrete examples of how the Toolkit is being implemented and create space for participants to develop applications for their own institutional and organizational contexts.

Outcomes:

  1. Become familiar with the content of the Toolkit and have several concrete examples of how it can be applied.

  2. Work on an individualized application of Toolkit content for participant contexts (workshop, course syllabus, pre-departure orientation, etc.).

  3. Connect with others who are committed to building more just, inclusive, and sustainable communities. 

  4. Gain preliminary understanding of how to facilitate Toolkit content.

Schedule:

  • 3 - 2 hour sessions in April 2024

  • Participants need to attend all sessions

  • 8 hours of engagement total (6 synchronous and 2 asynchronous)

  • Wednesday, April 24th 10-noon, Friday, April 26th 10-noon and Tuesday, April 30th 10-noon EST

Costs:

  • $149 Collaborative members

  • $399 non-members

Facilitators and Bios:

  • Samantha Brandauer

    Samantha Brandauer is currently Associate Provost and ED of the Center for Global Study and Engagement at Dickinson College, co-director of the Community-based Global Learning Collaborative and co-editor of the Interdependence: Global Solidarity and Local Actions Toolkit. As a career-long international educator she is working toward an international education model that is a force for positive and equitable change across all the people and communities it impacts. She has been an invited facilitator, panelist and presenter for organizations and institutions such as NAFSA, the Forum on Education Abroad, the Institute of International Education, the Community-based Global Learning Collaborative and Global Engagement in the Liberal Arts. She has worked at the Institute of International Education; the University of Maryland; Brown University; Study Abroad in Scandinavia in Denmark and Gettysburg College. She holds an M.A. in International Communication from American University.

  • Julie Ficarra

    Dr. Julie Ficarra is currently an Associate Professor of Practice and the Director of Globally Engaged Learning in the Department of Global Development at Cornell University where she teaches courses in Critical Global Citizenship and Cultures, Communities and Development. Her research and praxis focus on the decolonization and democratization of international education policy through ethical community engagement and equitable partnership models; including COIL and bi-lateral exchange. Her article "Curating Cartographies of Knowledge: Reading Institutional Study Abroad Portfolios as Texts" won NAFSA's 2019 Innovation in International Education Research Award. Before joining the faculty at Cornell, Julie spent a decade working in international program administration at the University of South Florida, the SUNY COIL Center and SUNY Cortland. She received her Ed.M in International Education Policy from Harvard and her Ph.D in Cultural Foundations of Education from Syracuse University.

  • Nedra Sandiford

    Nedra Sandiford is currently the Administrative Director for Dickinson College’s Spanish Immersion Program in Málaga, Spain. In this role, among other duties, she has been working to advance the intersection of diversity, equity, inclusion and intercultural competence through on-site orientations with students, workshops and training. Nedra has created content for the Toolkit, facilitated workshops and given talks for organizations including but not limited to Diversity Abroad, The Forum on Education Abroad, the American Council on Education and the Institute for International Education. She holds an M.A. in International Affairs from The New School.