We have an amazing team going to Haiti next week. It's hard to believe that six months of preparation is finally culminating in departure. We leave one week from today (Wednesday, May 7) and are looking forward to the first four days in a more rural location (Pignon) followed by a week in Cap-Haitien.
The team has been working on preparing conversational English classes and leadership workshops. We have also been incredibly fortunate to also receive box after box of school supplies. This week, we packed 12 suitcases of school materials, laptops, soccer supplies, and BlackBerry phones/tablets. We each also took one extra box of supplies that will get packed with our 2nd suitcase. Amazing!
"Global" and "local" are constructs which no longer adequately capture our lived experience. "Glocal" attempts to capture the melding of international and local realities. This blog provides an opportunity to consider how we can develop glocal thinking and encourage others to do so as well.
About Me
- Steve Sider
- I have been an elementary and secondary school teacher and administrator. Currently, I am a faculty member in the Faculty of Education at Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. My M.Ed. and Ph.D. had a focus on the educational and linguistic experiences of children who moved from other countries to Canada.
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