GEP - Savvy Scholar Fellowships

Savvy Scholar Fellowships

These Fellowships, a two year project from 2006-2008, are an extension of our Consulting Partnerships, our unique consulting service in which we work together with educators one-on-one to develop curriculum on global issues to fit seamlessly within their existing curriculum.

Savvy Scholar Fellowships were instituted to help address the lack of professional development funds in public schools. The Fellows receive all the services of our Consulting Partnerships, as well as:

  • assistance in locating guest speakers for the classroom
  • a stipend of $500 at the conclusion of the academic year, if all requirements are met

In return, Savvy Scholar Fellows will:

  • attend half-day orientation & end-of-year showcase
  • participate for the duration of the academic year
  • complete mid-year and end-of-year evaluations
  • participate in at least 2 of our teacher workshops throughout the year
  • submit samples of student work
  • attend at least one Scholars’ networking event during the year

Eligibility: middle school and high school educators, in any subject, from San Francisco public schools.

Fellows for 2006-07:

Listed below are the nine fellows from the 2006-07 school year, their school, subjects they teach, and examples of projects they created utilizing World Savvy resources.

Dickson Lam June Jordan School for Equity, Humanities

  • students analyzed the history of conflict in the Middle East and wrote papers with policy recommendations

Kristen Ng Burton Academic High School, Mathematics

  • used population statistics to learn math concepts

Sada Ashkenes Burton Academic High School, English

  • for a unit on “House of the Spirits”, used background information and current events articles about modern-day South America

Ellena Weldon Burton Academic High School, English & Journalism

  • hosted a guest speaker, a journalist, who spoke about diversity issues in the media

Lucy Karanfilian International Studies Academy, International Relations

  • brainstormed a course outline for the year with major topics and resources for each of those topics

Ricardo Elizalde International Studies Academy, English

  • conducted the International Interview Project for the third year, where in groups, students research another country and then interview someone from that country to supplement their research and give a personal perspective. Hear some of the interviews.

Michael Guenza Excelsior Middle School, Social Studies

  • utilized videos and current events articles to supplement ancient civilizations curriculum

Hilary Hayes Youth Empowerment School, English

  • watched “West Bank Story” (a modern twist on West Side Story about Israel and Palestine) after reading Romeo and Juliet

Carrie Haslanger Youth Empowerment School, History

  • built out her unit on world religions with resources from World Savvy

Edutopia featured two of our Savvy Scholars, Lucy and Ellena, in an article about World Savvy’s Global Educators Program in February 2007.