The Way We Rolled
At the beginning of most units, we connected our curriculum to a set of priorities laid out by the United Nations. The priorities we talked about most were created in 2015.
What are the Sustainable Development Goals?
Paul Farmer studied at this local university while starting a clinic in Haiti.
What is Harvard?
The last student to join our Global Leadership section.
Who is Damian?
The location of the Rana Plaza factory collapse. This is also where Muhammad Yunus is from.
What is Bangladesh?
Bolsa Familia was an example of this type of program, which provides students with a small stipend for going to school. In other parts of the world the government stipend might be for a health checkup.
What are conditional cash transfers?
This Google software was used every time we changed partners or made groups.
What is Google Sheets?
This woman is a co-founder of Partners in Health, spoke to us during our field trip, and is the daughter of a famous actress and author.
Who is Ophelia Dahl?
This student was most likely to finish something first - and then he would get stuck doing twice as much work.
Who is Luke?
The setting of Black Gold. This is a country that relies heavily on the coffee industry as one of its major exports.
What is Ethiopia?
In order to support farmers and producers, mostly in the developing world, consumers may pay a little extra for products that have this label.
What is fair trade?
We often connected our curriculum to this document, created by the United Nations in the 1940s after World War II.
What is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
This disease was affecting a community on the outskirts of Lima, Peru when Partners in Health began working there.
MDR-TB or Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis
I taught two of this student's older siblings.
Who is Max?
Partners in Health went to this country after they identified a TB outbreak in the nation's prison system.
What is Russia?
We loaned money through this website this year, supporting a small business in another part of the world.
What is Kiva?
At the end of the first quarter, the third quarter, and the 4th quarter, students wrote one of these.
What are engagement reflections?
This president was instrumental in passing PEPFAR, the emergency relief bill that helped address the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Who is President George W. Bush?
These two students had Dr. Shea for two straight years - my goodness!
Who are Giulia & Ciara?
The Chong people live in this country. Their way of life was being threatened by a hydroelectric dam until a grassroots and global movement put a stop to it.
What is Cambodia?
In King Corn, we learned that American farmers couldn't survive without money from the government, which are called these.
What are subsidies?
These were our biggest writing assignments. We wrote three of them this year.
What are Blog Posts?
This disease spread in West Africa between 2014 and 2016, frightening the whole world. PIH stepped in and still works in Sierra Leone and Libera.
What is Ebola?
The three juniors in this year's Global Leadership section.
Who are Xavier, Ingrid, & Vihaan?
When we began learning about the Global Water Crisis, we watched an Explained video segment that showed how the capital city of this country was sinking...and it doesn't have much water left.
What is Mexico?
Muhammed Yunus came up with this idea, a system of banking the so-called "unbankables". It usually involves small loans.
What is microfinance?