World Savvy

World Savvy's program prepares students to thrive in our globally connected world by redesigning K-12 education to increase student engagement, expand educator capacity, and strengthen school and district leadership. World Savvy's approach to learning is based on the belief that students learn best when they are engaged in relevant and important issues that impact their communities and the world. We believe that students' lived experiences and perspectives are assets that can be leveraged in learning every day; however, in order to successfully reach diverse students in their classrooms, educators need support to teach in a way they did not learn while engaging students from communities to which they may not be native; more than 80% of K-12 educators in the US are white, serving a collective majority of minority students. World Savvy supports educators to create active, engaged, culturally-responsive classrooms where all students can thrive.Through all of our work, we strive to embed global competence into teaching, learning and culture so that everyone within a school community - students, educators, leaders and families - is actively supporting the development of the skills and dispositions we know people need to thrive in a complex and interconnected world. World Savvy defines global competence as the skills, behaviors, values and attitudes necessary to positively engage in one's community, locally and globally. We want all students to value multiple perspectives, find comfort with ambiguity and change, practice empathy, question prevailing assumptions, engage in inclusive dialogue and be collaborative problem solvers. As outlined in World Savvy's Global Competence Matrix (https://bit.ly/3lWxXTQ), this is how we prepare young people with the capacity to understand and take action on issues of global significance.The core of World Savvy's work pivots around our Comprehensive School Model, which supports system-wide change in schools and districts to create more inclusive, adaptive, and future-ready schools. This comprehensive model aims to transform classrooms and school buildings by enhancing educators' capacity to teach for global competence and supporting school leaders as they institutionalize this work in teaching, learning, and culture. To meet the needs of each school and district, we offer a range of services including workshops, resources, curriculum consulting, student design challenges, and instructional coaching for both teachers and administrators designed to support the effective integration of global competence. There is no one-size-fits-all model for embedding global competence, so our approach is responsive to the needs of each participating school, and our multi-year partnerships are designed collaboratively with school leaders to align with each school's strategic vision and goals.

World Savvy has also seen increased interest in speaking engagements highlighting the need for global competence as an educational approach at a variety of conferences and gatherings across the US. In addition, in order to offer our partners the greatest access to meaningful tools and supports as they embed global competence into teaching and learning, we partner with like minded organizations.

World Savvy has experienced increased demand from school districts to provide services that lay the foundation for comprehensive school partnerships. We have expanded our programming to include leadership cohorts for district and school leaders. These cohorts are designed to create capacity across districts to embed global competence into teaching, learning, and school culture. Through workshops, dialogue, and exploration, we lay the groundwork for deep and sustainable work with students, educators, and families. In addition, we create a professional community of school leaders that are committed to this work and can use one another as resources and support. We also support districts through the development of Profiles of a Graduate and Global Competence Readiness Assessments.