Global Leadership Institute
Humanities
Course Code: 001
Credits:  0.5
Weight: General
Grade(s): 10-11
The Global Leadership Institute (GLI) is a competitive and rigorous co-curricular program that brings students from Taft and Waterbury Public Schools together both in and out of the classroom for shared learning and leadership experiences.  The program’s mission is to develop a generation of global leaders with a genuine concern for world problems, multiple perspectives on global issues, and the knowledge and skills needed to contribute to worldwide change.  The two-year GLO program accepts 12 students from the Waterbury Public Schools.  Students who apply and have been accepted in the program in the spring of their junior year.

The first-year curriculum includes monthly talks by global leaders and scholars, team-building events and experiences, and diversity leadership workshops.  First-year students will also participate in a summer service internship.  GLI Scholars refine their focus in the second year of the program by beginning to look at specific local, national, or global issues for which they have genuine concern.  The subject of that focused inquiry will form the basis of culminating and partnered Global Leadership Project.  Project requirements include a public presentation and an annotated bibliography.