Forming Ideas into Projects: Maggie Chumbley
This year’s EVAC conference took place here at CIPLC, on September 20th and 21st. EVAC is an acronym for Eastern Venezuela Athletic Conference, and each year, the schools that make up this athletic conference come together for professional development for the teaching staff.
In this year’s event, parents, teachers and students enjoyed live music performed by students of CIPLC; bake sales from the National Honor Society and Ms. Adriana Pinto; products from local artisans and watercolor paintings from a local artist. Besides that faculty members also enjoyed different workshops presented by different teachers, all of which focused on writing and reading.
This year, CIPLC had the privilege of having a special keynote speaker, Maggie Chumbley. Maggie Chumbley has an expertise in service-learning and global education, and works internationally with students, teachers and learning communities. She is the co-founder and director of the Midway Education Collaborative, an educational non-profit organization whose mission is to foster transformational conversations in response to environmental tragedy. In addition, she is an active member of the Global Issues Network.
One of the most important presentations given by Ms. Chumbley was one intended to organize student thoughts about what they want to do in the world while looking outward to effectively collaborate and think about their plan. This presentation was called What Would You Like to Do? Forming Ideas into Projects, and had as audience members: students, teachers and parents.
Maggie’s purpose of the talk was about the way teenagers foster learning together, and how we can work with and support students at specific stages of the service-learning process. She started her presentation by asking the students who they were, and made sure they were aware that they form part of the 50% of the world population who is under 25 years old. She stressed that young people can do important work. The goal of her presentation was to have the students explore their passions, skills, and interests, to get to know each other, and to plan a potential project.
Students, teachers, and parents left the presentation inspired and motivated by the wise words of Maggie Chumbley, who truly believes in the potential of teenagers and the change that can be made by them in the world.
By: Carolina Franco
This year’s EVAC conference took place here at CIPLC, on September 20th and 21st. EVAC is an acronym for Eastern Venezuela Athletic Conference, and each year, the schools that make up this athletic conference come together for professional development for the teaching staff.
In this year’s event, parents, teachers and students enjoyed live music performed by students of CIPLC; bake sales from the National Honor Society and Ms. Adriana Pinto; products from local artisans and watercolor paintings from a local artist. Besides that faculty members also enjoyed different workshops presented by different teachers, all of which focused on writing and reading.
This year, CIPLC had the privilege of having a special keynote speaker, Maggie Chumbley. Maggie Chumbley has an expertise in service-learning and global education, and works internationally with students, teachers and learning communities. She is the co-founder and director of the Midway Education Collaborative, an educational non-profit organization whose mission is to foster transformational conversations in response to environmental tragedy. In addition, she is an active member of the Global Issues Network.
One of the most important presentations given by Ms. Chumbley was one intended to organize student thoughts about what they want to do in the world while looking outward to effectively collaborate and think about their plan. This presentation was called What Would You Like to Do? Forming Ideas into Projects, and had as audience members: students, teachers and parents.
Maggie’s purpose of the talk was about the way teenagers foster learning together, and how we can work with and support students at specific stages of the service-learning process. She started her presentation by asking the students who they were, and made sure they were aware that they form part of the 50% of the world population who is under 25 years old. She stressed that young people can do important work. The goal of her presentation was to have the students explore their passions, skills, and interests, to get to know each other, and to plan a potential project.
Students, teachers, and parents left the presentation inspired and motivated by the wise words of Maggie Chumbley, who truly believes in the potential of teenagers and the change that can be made by them in the world.
By: Carolina Franco