Welcome to the Global

Perspectives Café

A World Café on Attaining a Global Perspective Across Content Areas

Friday, July 11, 2008

Café Conversations are an easy-to-use method

for creating a living network of collaborative dialogue

around questions that matter in service of the real work

CAFE MOVEMENTS

3 Rounds of Conversation at 3 Different Tables ~ 20 minutes each round

Large Group Collective Harvesting~ 30 minutes

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Avril Orloff

Questions are intrinsically related to action, they spark and direct attention, perception, energy and effort…

Creativity requires asking genuine questions, those to which an answer is not already known.

Questions function as open-handed invitations to creativity, calling forth that which doesn’t yet exist.

-Marilee Goldberg Adams The Art of the Question

Café Round 1:

What question, if answered, could make the greatest

difference to the future of globalizing your curriculum

or school?

Café TravelingContinuing the Conversation

•Choose one host to stay

•Others travel to new and separate tables

•Hosts welcome new people to the table

•Wait for what’s next

Café Round 2:

If there was one thing that hasn’t yet been said but is needed in order to reach a

deeper level of understanding about

globalizing your curriculum or school, what would that

be?

Café TravelingContinuing the Conversation

•Choose one host to stay

•Others travel to new and separate tables

•Hosts welcome new people to the table

•Wait for what’s next

Café Round 3:

What seed might we plant together today that would

make the most difference to the future of globalizing your

curriculum or school?

Content Area Sharing

Based on your three rounds of conversation, what themes,

patterns and insights are emerging?

What were your important questions?

How will you plan to enact your ideas for globalizing your

curriculum or school?

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Thank You

Based on the work of Juanita Brown, David Isaacs and the World Café Community

Graphics by Avril Orloff and Nancy Margulies

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