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How can teachers create a cultural space in their classrooms where students of all backgrounds can thrive?

Listen as Shelley Reinhart, KnowledgeWorkx Director of Education, unpacks this question with educators and Ph.D. students Yasemin Altas and Victoria Hopkin.

Yasemin has been teaching at universities for nearly three decades. She is a faculty member teaching intercultural studies at the  Higher Colleges of Technology, in the UAE. She has a Master's in Management in Education, is a trained Celta Teacher Trainer, and has been involved in projects with the Ministry of Education. She is currently working on a Ph.D. in Education with a focus on intercultural studies. 

Victoria is a teacher, school leader, coach, and educational researcher with a passion for cultural agility. As a trained and experienced intercultural coach, Victoria's Ph.D. research focuses on cultivating environments that are inclusive and culturally adaptive.

If you want to learn how you can bring these skills into your classroom, sign up for the next Culture in the Classroom Course at: https://www.knowledgeworkx.education/teachers 

In this episode, you will learn

• How to create a culturally agile classroom charter with your students.
• How to bring out the unique gifts that Third Culture Kids add to your classroom.
• How to understand and teach your students about their own unique cultural wiring.

 | Articles
 -- What Does It Mean to Be a Third Culture Kid? (http://kwx.fyi/what-does-it-mean-to-be-a-tck)
--  Wandering the World - a Hopeful Tale (knowledgeworkx.com)
--  KnowledgeWorkx Education Training (www.knowledgeworkx.education)

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Are you the parent of missionary kids, or did you grow up as an MK or TCK? Join us for part one of this vulnerable and powerful conversation about MKs with Dr. Rob Hoskins as we touch on trauma, parenting, guilt, strategy, and hope. 

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Join Michael and Shelley as they explore the ways teachers, parents, and school administrators can transform their schools and classrooms into culturally inclusive spaces. 

Michael Bartlett is the Head of School Partnerships at Suraasa. He has founded schools, served as an executive school principal, and consulted for international schools around the UAE. 

Shelley Reinhart is the Director of Knowledgeworkx Education. She has twenty years of teaching experience and loves weaving cultural agility and educational instruction together, equipping teachers to connect with their students.

Learn more about how you transform educational spaces with Cultural Agility at:  www.knowledgeworkx.education

In this episode you will learn:

     - How to use Cultural Agility to better understand students, parents, and colleagues.
     - How to create inclusive classrooms by understanding how worldviews shape your students.
     - Why Cultural Agility helps schools not only retain teachers but also attract students.

Deeper Reading:
Defining values and value behaviors that resonate across cultures (http://kwx.fyi/values)
What Does It Mean to Be a Third Culture Kid? (http://kwx.fyi/what-does-it-mean-to-be-a-tck) 
From the Innate to the Intellectual: An Inter-Cultural Intelligence Practitioner’s Story (http://kwx.fyi/from-the-innate-to-the-intellectual)

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Listen to stories of three Third Culture Kids (TCKs) growing up outside their home country, with all the challenges and amazing opportunities that come with it.

- Ahmed: Born and raised in Dubai, Ahmed’s home country is Tanzania. He is currently studying at the University of Toronto.
- Maggie: Born in Maryland, USA, Maggie moved to Dubai as a young teen. She studied Human Services at York College in Pennsylvania, and currently is living and working in Delaware, USA.
- Helen: Born and raised in the UAE with a Dutch dad and a South African mom, she is currently in her first year at the University College Roosevelt in the Netherlands.

Unpacking their experiences alongside them is Shelley Reinhart, Director of KnowledgeWorkx Education, who loves weaving cultural agility and education together to help teachers connect with their students.

You want to learn more about Third Culture Kids go to www.knowledgeworkx.education

Listen as these young Inter-Cultural Intelligence Certified Practitioners share their deep insight on cultural agility.  Are you TCK? Apply for a scholarship to develop your own cultural agility here --- http://kwx.fyi/ici-scholarship ---

| In this bonus episode on Third Culture Kids you will hear:

     - The stories of three distinct TCKs using cultural agility to enter diverse careers.

     -  Ways culture affects both teachers and students.

     - Tools for understanding others regardless of ethnicity and nationality. 

Deeper Reading:
-- Wandering the World - A Hopeful Tale (http://kwx.fyi/wandering)
-- http://kwx.fyi/what-does-it-mean-to-be-a-tck
-- http://kwx.fyi/from-the-innate-to-the-intellectual 

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Join Chris and Marco as they explore the gifts and challenges unique to Third Culture Kids and how those parallel the realities of our globalized world. With his characteristic wit and engaging storytelling, Chris brings the intuitive into the intellectual so that we can all benefit from a shared language around our experiences. 

Christopher O'Shaughnessy is a speaker, comedian, and author who “gets to fly around and chat for a living.” He is a global expert on Third Culture Kids and speaks around the world about cross-cultural skills, Third Culture Kids, identity, belonging, and change management. 

If you are interested in bringing some of these skills into your school, you can see an array of available workshops offered by KnowledgeWorkx Education and Christopher O’Shaughnessy at www.knowledgeworkx.education .

Learn more about Christopher O’ Shaughnessy at: chris-o.com .

Listen to his humorous and insightful podcast “Diesel and Clooney Unpack the World” found at: chris-o.com/podcast .

Read His Book: Arrivals, Departures and the Adventures In-Between By Christopher O'Shaughnessy .

In this episode you will learn-- 

•  What is a Third Culture Kid; 
•  What we can learn from TCKs about our global world; 
•  How to take our intuitive experiences and share them; 

| Articles: 

-- http://kwx.fyi/from-the-innate-to-the-intellectual 

-- http://kwx.fyi/what-does-it-mean-to-be-a-tck

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