According to the Center for Global Education at the Asia Society, a globally competent student is one who can:
It is important that our students are active in their local communities while also encouraging them to consider their role in a broader global community. It is critical that they understand that their reality is authentic but not exclusive and that to better understand how the world works, they must engage in a rigorous examination of perspectives, rooted in history and society, in order to act mindfully and with empathy to improve the world in which they live.
Many of our teachers and district programs are doing important work to prepare our students to demonstrate the skills listed to the left. From individual classroom lessons that ask students to consider diverse viewpoints when constructing arguments to our district's robust Global program, our students are busy doing the work of thinking globally and acting locally.
However, currently our students get only bits and pieces of the global competence skills outlined by the Asia Society. What I would like to do through this site and through the creation of a Global Studies Certification Program at CRLS is design a more cohesive experience to root students' studies in these tenets explicitly. Through a more formal and systematized approach, our school can more successfully ensure that our students are graduating from CRLS with measurable and actionable global competence skills.