Homa Sabet Tavangar is an acclaimed author, speaker, workshop presenter, coach, storyteller, and recognized thought leader on building global citizenship, cultural competence, inclusive environments that celebrate diversity, and 21st-Century, innovative learning across the life cycle. She possesses 25+ years of experience in business and global strategy development, diversity and inclusion, cross-cultural and global competence, empathy-building, marketing,…
Don’t let @justinbieber ruin it for you. With 59.8 million Twitter followers as of this writing, the hype around J-Biebs is exactly what drives thoughtful people to run in the opposite direction of a powerful tool for learning and connecting. While some teachers have told me, “I’d never waste my time on Twitter” others I’ve…
On top of the sheer panic unleashed by the spread of the Ebola virus from West Africa, an astonishing amount of ignorance has reared its ugly head. As some have commented, this ignorance may be more dangerous to millions of people than the actual virus, and the unfamiliarity could even make matters worse, by focusing…
(This post originally appeared on EdWeek.com’s Global Learning Blog here.) I met my co-author on Twitter. We hit it off in a series of 140-character communications, where we realized we shared similar values, a vision of bringing global education into classrooms, and that our expertise was complementary. We never met until our book was 90…
Summer offers a perfect chance to explore – ideas, places, experiences. Ideally, it’s a time for playing outside, slowing down, trying a new hobby, and more family time. Among the “muscles” I like to exercise, when not as bound by classroom exigencies, are those that go beyond anything a subject test can measure. These are…
Author urges fun approach to leading children past misinformation about other cultures September 17, 2009 BY MIKE THOMAS Staff Reporter, Chicago Sun-Times In 1979, when Iranian-born Homa Sabet Tavangar was a junior high cheerleader in Fort Wayne, Ind., a revolution erupted in the country of her birth. Despite the fact that she was only a year when…
