Past Event Category: K-12
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Jun 28Climate Optimism: Finding Creative Solutions and Making Positive Impacts – A Virtual Workshop for EducatorsOnline Register Here
Join the Wisconsin International Resource Consortium (WIRC) for a virtual workshop, Climate Optimism – Finding Creative Solutions and Making Positive Impacts. This K-12 workshop is designed to provide educators with new ideas and approaches to teaching topics around climate change, enabling more optimistic approaches in the classroom. Featured speakers bring international, regional, and local expertise …
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Apr 27Teaching About the Armenian Genocide: A Professional Development Workshop for EducatorsRoom 1871, Northwest Quadrant Building, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Register Here
The Institute of World Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee will be hosting a professional development workshop on teaching about the Armenian Genocide for educators. The seminar will provide support for teachers as they work to meet Wisconsin’s Act 30 genocide education mandate requirements for the classroom. During the day, educators will explore the interconnected …
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Apr 13Global Learning Summit: Engaged Learning to Lead for ChangeOnline Register Here
The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI) and UW–Madison’s Wisconsin International Resource Consortium (WIRC) invite Global Scholars Program students and teachers for the Global Learning Summit: Engaged Learning to Lead for Change virtually on Saturday, April 13 from 9:00am-3:30pm CST. You can register for the event and learn about some of this year’s sessions below. Register …
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Apr 5World Cinema DayBarrymore Theater Register Here
In conjunction with the Wisconsin Film Festival (WFF), the Wisconsin International Resource Consortium will be hosting World Cinema Day, bringing middle and high school educators and students to Madison for a free showing of an acclaimed and newly-released international film. This year’s feature film will be Totem. There will be an introduction of the film prior to …
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Dec 4Dreams and Displacement in AfghanistanOnline Click here to register
Join investigative reporter and Pulitzer Center grantee May Jeong for a discussion of her experiences reporting from Afghanistan. In preparation for this talk, attendees are encouraged to watch Afghan Dreamers, a documentary about an all-girls robotics team from Afghanistan and their fate as the Taliban came to power. The film is teen friendly and can …
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Dec 2International Children’s Literature CelebrationThe Madison Concourse Hotel Link
The Wisconsin International Resource Consortium (WIRC) and IRIS NRC will be hosting the International Children’s Literature Celebration: Folk and Fairytales on Saturday, December 2nd, from 9am-4pm at the Madison Concourse Hotel. This day long workshop for educators, librarians, students, and children’s literature enthusiasts will feature the following award-winning authors and children’s literature experts from UW–Madison: Rochelle Hassan, …
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Sep 29Global Madison Walking TourBascom Hall Link
Register Here Join IRIS NRC staff for an in-person walking tour using the Global Madison mobile map! How can local landscapes help us think critically about global interdependencies and inequalities? Global Madison is a mobile map and self guided tour designed to support teaching and learning about globalization using Madison, Wisconsin, as a situated classroom. …
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Apr 14World Cinema DayShannon Hall Link
Register Now Mark your calendars for World Cinema Day (WCD) 2023! In conjunction with the Wisconsin Film Festival (WFF), World Cinema Day is an annual international film screening that brings middle and high school students and their teachers to Madison for a special free screening of a high-quality, newly released, international film. The 2023 featured …
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Oct 20Go Big Read Book Discussion: Transcendent KingdomRegister Join us for a Book Club event online to discuss the UW–Madison Go Big Read book selection: Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi. “Gifty is a PhD candidate in neuroscience studying reward-seeking behavior in mice and the neural circuits of depression and addiction. Her brother, Nana, was a gifted high school athlete who died of a heroin …
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Oct 14Ethical Fashion- Local Access, Global ImpactRegister Join us for our online October Film Club event with Nikki Anderson who will present on making ethical fashion accessible on a local level. Inspired by the quote “You must be the change you wish to see in the world”, Nikki Anderson founded her retail store, Change Fair Trade Fashion Boutique in Madison, Wisconsin. Since …