Join us as we offer this pre-Institute workshop as part of our 2023 Haverford Institute: Stepping into the Work: Expanding Understanding of Global Positionality, Responsibility, and Opportunity. Participants will learn how the Interdependence Toolkit is being implemented and create space for participants to develop applications for their institution.

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 4 hours 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.

Learning Outcomes:

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

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

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

• Gain preliminary understanding of how to facilitate Toolkit content.

Facilitators: Nedra Sandiford, Administrative Director for Dickinson College’s Spanish Immersion Program in Málaga, Spain; and Samantha Brandauer, Associate Provost and Executive Director of the Center for Global Study and Engagement at Dickinson College