Trans-Inclusion At School

Nadia Breedt, Stella Zerbini (AISCT)

Audience: Students/Adults

This session offers background information on transgender terminology, etiquette and different trans inclusion projects to implement at school.

Effective Service in Challenging Times

LeeAnne Lavender & Shei Asencio

Audience: Adults

How to maintain momentum with your service & global citizenship initiatives online, face-to-face or in a hybrid environment

Guiding questions: 

  • Have you experienced challenges navigating from teaching in-person to online, and with hybrid learning spaces? Has this impacted your ability to continue with your service and/or global citizenship programs or experiences?

  • Are your students struggling to maintain momentum and energy during these challenging times? As you respond to their health and wellness needs, does it feel difficult to ask them to maintain engagement with your service and global citizenship endeavors? 

  • Have some of your service partnerships or experiences been difficult to maintain in a virtual space? Do you need support in transitioning to online ways of engaging with service, sustainability and global citizenship education? 

If you answer yes to any of the above questions, this workshop is designed to create a space where you connect with other AISA educators for sharing, learning and inspiration. The 45-minute workshop will be divided into two parts and you will have ample opportunity to meet other educators to share your experiences and to glean wisdom from others. LeeAnne and Shei, the workshop facilitators, will share ideas and resources to help all participants rethink online options for effective engagement. Not only can we run our service learning and global citizenship programs online in robust and purposeful ways; it’s also possible to leverage the potential of the online environment to create even deeper connections with service partners and to foster meaningful advocacy and communication skills. By the end of this workshop, you’ll have the ideas and tools you need to reframe your service and global citizenship work to include a valuable online foundation.

Animal Shelter

Ruby Crowe-Zervos (IST)

Audience: Students

This session focuses on the animal shelter in Dar es Salaam, their work with the community and the animals that I have worked with over the years. It will also include information about the cat trapping program on my campus which helps to create a stable population of healthy cats.

Working with Refugees

(ISK Students)

Audience: Adults & Students

Our presentation is centered around refugee camps in Kenya. Due to all the conflicts in the neighboring countries to Kenya (e.g Somalia), the amount of refugees present in Kenya are increasing. Our project focuses on working with NGOs which provide aid and relief for the refugee camps. We will be focusing on the issues of education, safety, and nutrition in regards to refugees in Kenya.

DEIJ & International Schools: How can we examine our schools and programs using a DEIJ lens? (ASIJ)

Sivuyile Mthezo, Kaetlegile Mothwa, ISU students, and adult panelists

Audience: Adults and Students

 How can we envision a more diverse, equitable and inclusive path for our international schools? What does it mean to be an educator or student in an AISA school who wants to create positive change in these areas? In this panel discussion, educators and students will share their thoughts and ideas, and the conversation will challenge and stimulate participants to rethink their educational spaces and experiences. 

Global Water Scarcity (ISU)

Juan Kim

Audience: Adults and Students

This presentation addresses the urgency of water scarcity across the globe and how we can work together to alleviate the problems and inequity resulted from it.

Encode Justice

Adrian Ali Klaits (IST)

Audience: Students

A presentation on a youth-led organization’s work to fight for justice and equity with the intersection of AI. Encode Justice

Say NO to Gender-Based Violence

Shanzeh Haider (AISJ)

Audience: Adults & Students

“Say NO to Gender-Based Violence” is a service learning initiative started by Shanzeh Haider, a current 10th grade student at the American International School of Johannesburg. Her passion for Gender-Based Violence started in 8th grade, when she moved to South Africa and learned all about the issues of GBV in her global local community. Since then, she has been working on combatting Gender-Based Violence in the community all around her. Learn about what she is doing and how she is doing it. Learn about what YOU can do to say “NO!” to Gender-Based Violence.

Countering Savior Mentality: Critical Engagement in Our Local Communities

Constance Collins & Tiwana Merritt

Audience: Adults 

One of the appeals of international schools is that it gives families, students, and educators opportunities to travel the world and experience a myriad of cultures. This workshop will give us space to reflect critically on the ways we navigate our local contexts and devise ways we can meaningfully engage in service learning with our faculty, families and students.

Sanitary Products for All (AISCT)

Victoria Rossi

Audience: Adults & Students

This session focuses on a new initiative created by the Global issues class. This project is based on increasing the access of sanitary products for underprivileged women who are unable to go to school because they do not have any access to these necessities. The global issues class started by putting sanitary products in their own bathrooms and felt the immediate change of environment at school, the girls automatically felt more comfortable and less worried about going to school. It worked so well for their school that they started to go local and help as many communities around them as they could, seeking pharmaceutical sponsors to help schools become self- sustainable with a regular stock of sanitary products at in order to provide a comfortable learning environment for women and in order for women to return to school.