Empathy to Impact
Transforming Teaching & Learning to Begin from a Place of Empathy and Lead to Positive Change in Our Community Through Integrating Themes of Global Citizenship into Existing Units
Extend your learning and connect with other educators as you collaborate, learn and take action together, sharing practices and peer feedback as we learn from each other.
Facilitator
Scott Jamieson
From Inspire Citizens
Prior to joining Inspire Citizens in 2020, Scott Jamieson spent 17 years as a teacher and administrator in international schools across Asia. He holds Masters degrees in Education, Educational Leadership, and Special Education. He is passionate about designing learning experiences that extend beyond the classroom, develop empathy and lead to authentic community action. With Inspire Citizens, Scott works with schools, teachers and students to view learning through the lens of Empathy to Impact to allow students to leverage transformative learning to have an impact in their local and global communities. He works with schools to design programs that focus on global citizenship, student leadership, service learning, community engagement, and supporting students to be changemakers and have a positive impact on themselves, their community and the planet. He is also the host and producer of the Empathy to Impact podcast.
Dates:
November 4 - December 6, 2025
SIGN UP DUE DATE: October 29
Cost:
$100 / person
Audience:
K-12 classroom teachers, learning coaches, sustainability coordinators, PYP/MYP/CAS coordinators, service learning, coordinators, experiential learning coordinators interested and enthusiastic about education for global citizenship
Format:
This court will learn and collaborate asynchronously on the Huddle Up Learning platform. Additionally, there will be an optional synchronous meet up at 10 AM China time (GMT+8) on Saturday, November 23 to connect with members of the cohort for a coffee, network, reflect on our journey, and consider next steps..
Project Description:
Our goal for this collaboration is to get an introduction to the Inspire Citizens Empathy to Impact framework and use it to level up an existing unit or project that you currently teach.
This framework consists of four steps, Care, Aware, Able, and Impact. By using this framework, we can look at learning through a different lens to make authentic connections to something that we truly care about. This might be a sustainable development target, a social justice issue, living in greater harmony with nature, the holistic well-being of our community, or another global issue viewed through a local lens.
We will then explore tools and strategies that allow students to become more deeply aware of the issue they care about. Next, depending on the action that students are working towards, they will need skills and knowledge to be able to carry this out successfully. This might include interdisciplinary knowledge from the curriculum, technology skills, project management skills, leadership skills, or perhaps they will need to learn to think like a filmmaker, or social entrepreneur. As part of this work, students should be encouraged to make connections with individuals and/or organizations who are doing similar work in their local community to address this issue and explore how they might be able to contribute to this work in a meaningful way where they are learning from and acting with a community partner for their action. Students will then carry out their action and reflect on the impact of their work.
The outcome of our Huddle Up collaboration will be an enhanced unit plan, or project plan that can be implemented in the next semester.
Questions?
Email Scott Jamieson at [email protected]