Exemplifying a Global-Minded Culture

Professional Development Credit – This Micro-Credential may be eligible for continuing professional development credit in your state. Contact your state affiliate association to learn more.

Overview – The Exemplifying a Global-Minded Culture Micro-Credential requires that the practitioner demonstrates proficiency of all the essential outcomes and the research-based subskills defined in the details. These include the ability to model practices and attitudes that support global mindedness; build and promote a global-minded awareness for students and staff; promote culture diversity; and develop and implement a personal growth plan with strategies, implementation timelines, evaluation, and monitoring process based on cycle of inquiry and continuous improvement of global mindedness skills and behaviors. Educational leaders can purposefully shape their school’s culture by emphasizing the value of empathy and celebrating diverse perspectives from within and outside the school; actively choose to empower staff members and students to integrate diverse balanced perspectives into their learning; motivate and encourage staff members to share world experiences; and engage staff in courageous conversations when there is resistance to different perspectives (NASSP 2019 pg. 64).

Essential Outcomes – Exemplifying a Global-Minded Culture includes the following four identified essential outcomes:

1. Model practices and attitudes that support global mindedness.
2. Build and promote a global-minded awareness for students and staff.
3. Promote culture diversity.
4. Develop and implement a personal growth plan with strategies, implementation timelines, evaluation, and monitoring process based on cycle of inquiry and continuous improvement of global mindedness skills and behaviors.

Requirements

Part 1. Overview Questions

Develop a responsive narrative that answers the following questions (1,000-word minimum):

1. In what ways have you engaged in professional networking, development, and planning that shows how you and your staff model practices and attitudes that support global mindedness?
2. What action steps have you taken to build and promote a culture of global-minded awareness for students and staff?
3. What protocols measures and processes have you implemented with multiple stakeholder groups that allow your organization to promote culture diversity?
4. What strategies and self-monitoring actions have to be undertaken to best exemplify global minded cultural elements and deliverables?

Part 2. Skill Demonstration Product with Self-Analysis

Develop an artifact portfolio that captures the essential outcomes for the Exemplifying a Global-Minded Culture Micro-Credential and complete the evidence self-analysis.

For each EO detail you will be required to reference an uploaded artifact(s) and guide the assessor to the specific evidence (page number, video time stamp, etc.) within the uploaded artifact(s). An explanation of how the evidence demonstrates proficiency of the outcome detail is also required. The practitioner must clearly and compellingly demonstrate proficiency of every detail under each essential outcome.

Part 3. Reflection & Application

Submit, in writing, a summary of your experience of Exemplifying a Global-Minded Culture (500-word minimum). Provide specific examples of how you applied all components of the essential outcomes. This could include topics covered and a description of the practices used to exemplify a global-minded culture. You need to address how you personally accomplish the following:

1. Model practices and attitudes that support global mindedness.
2. Build and promote a global-minded awareness for students and staff.
3. Promote culture diversity.
4. Develop and implement a personal growth plan with strategies, implementation timelines, evaluation, and monitoring process based on cycle of inquiry and continuous improvement of global mindedness skills and behaviors.

Also, include a reflection about the impact of this skill on your professional practice and how you will continue to apply it in the future.