Teachers Without Borders: Educating Girls (Canvas.net)
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Fred Mednick
A few months after I received my doctorate in 1999, I fired myself as the principal of a prestigious school and found myself sitting in a Bedouin tent in the Middle East. I had just founded Teachers Without Borders (2000), a nonprofit devoted to connecting the world’s teachers to information and each other. Fourteen years later, the pace has not let up.
I was an early creator and adopter of open-source online learning platforms. I’m an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University, where I teach public online courses for teachers in global education, girls’ education, education in emergencies, safe schools, and climate change, as well as in Hopkins’s new online doctoral program. I advise The Organization of American States, the oldest regional association in the world, on education policy for Latin America.
Today, Teachers Without Borders (TWB) claims members in 185 countries. TWB has received both the prestigious “Hero of African Education” award and India’s “Global Education Innovation” award. I didn’t do all this—the membership did. They deserve all the credit.
At over 59 million, teachers are the largest professionally trained group in the world. They know who is sick or missing or orphaned by AIDS. Teacher professional development around the world can be spotty, inconsequential, or missing entirely. We have to fill the gap. Brains are evenly distributed, but education is not. Why not share the wealth? Teachers are the catalyst and the glue that holds society together. They’re more than bumper stickers—they’re action figures!
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