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“I have grown tremendously as an educator due to my work with [World Savvy]." - MAP Educator

Designing Unique Global Programming

World Savvy provides specialized consulting services for schools and cultural institutions with specifically defined needs in global education, including: program design and development, curriculum development, professional development design and facilitation, and community connections (experiential learning plans). These services vary widely in their application within schools, community organizations and cultural institutions nationwide.

Current and recent consulting projects include:

Daraja Means Bridge: International Art Exchange Program and Curriculum Design

Through our collaboration with the San Francisco Arts Commission, World Savvy’s Media & Arts Program team completed a consulting project with the Daraja Academy  in Kenya to develop a photo-literacy program and curriculum that would connect students in San Francisco with their peers in Kenya. The purpose of the project is to provide an opportunity for young participants to communicate and learn about youth from different cultural backgrounds through the use of visual and literary arts, technology, new media and social science. This unique project allowed World Savvy to showcase its core competency to a new audience and provided a rare opportunity to utilize different technologies to facilitate remote program participation.

AYUSA, a program of Intrax Cultural Exchange

In summer 2010, World Savvy worked with AYUSA Global Youth Exchange under a grant from the U.S. and Mexico Embassies that brought 50 non-elite students from all over Mexico to the U.S. for five weeks of leadership development and support for developing projects that address conflict resolution related to the impact of the drug war in their local communities.  World Savvy created and implemented a week-long curriculum focusing on sources of conflict and conflict resolution techniques using personal, local, national and international lenses. More about AYUSA...

Moscone Family Foundation: Civic Education Program

Since March 2010, World Savvy has worked with the Moscone Center for Public Service Board to conduct foundational research and planning for a Civic Education Program for youth aligned with and promoting the values and principles of George Moscone. Strong and effective program design and development must be built on a solid understanding of the existing civic education landscape and best practices in the field. To this end, World Savvy has completed a Civic Education Environmental Scan to inform MCPS program planning.

Asian Art  Museum, San Francisco

in February 2010, World Savvy San Francisco’s Senior Program Associate Katina Papson facilitated two professional development institutes for the teaching artist cohort of the Asian Art Museum’s youth program “Art Speak”.  The participants were a group of artist educators employed by the museum to plan and facilitate original workshops for youth on the theme “Identity and Place”. Each professional development workshop was custom designed to fit the needs of the Art Speak Program and was done so under the thoughtful and generous advise of Allison Wyckoff, Family and Youth Programs Director (and lead coordinator of the Art Speak Program). Some of the products and services World Savvy provided include support in the discovery and creation of individualized curriculum on the theme of “Identity and Place”, background materials on topical and arts education methodologies, hands on arts activities providing models for educators to develop personally authentic classroom practices, contemporary and traditional art and media recommendations for classroom reference, and customized interactive opportunities for teaching artists to prepare for their workshops.  More about Asian Art Museum...

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