Winter offers us a slower pace to let go in the physical and emotional sense, so we can open ourselves up to what is next in our growth. Join GLP’s founder, Dr. Jane Vella, for a series of personal reflections on learning and how the world moves forward in continual progression and change. December 5 […]
Talking circles have long been used by Indigenous Peoples in Canada, the US and around the world. They are also known as ‘sharing circles’. They are used to ensure each individual who has gathered in a place has a voice and is fully heard. It is used at the start of a gathering, in the […]
The Situation The International Budget Partnership (IBP), an international NGO focused on fiscal transparency and accountability across 100+ countries, was given a large grant from the European Commission for the Collaborating on Open and Accountable Budgets (COAB) project. The overall objective of the COAB project is to build the conditions for transparent, inclusive, and accountable […]
How do you turn a concept into a useful visual to teach and reinforce that concept over time? How do you take that visual off the page so that people can interact and learn from it? Here’s a story to illustrate how you might do just that. We hope it inspires you with its simplicity. […]
Neurodiversity acknowledges that all learners interact with and perceive the world differently. This means that there is no right way to learn, which provides validation and support for establishing equitable learning environments. As I reflect on my time in higher education, I must recognize that the standard ways of presenting information are outdated and exclusive. […]
In the early years of Global Learning Partners (GLP), our consultants often worked solo on projects with our clients. It seemed like the more efficient thing to do and may have saved our clients a few dollars. However, we’ve learned a lot since then about the many advantages of fielding two or more team members on a single […]
Our esteemed founder, Jane Vella, continues to write about a new country as she sees it from her vantage point of quiet and time. Learn a new word in Irenic Education, reflect on where you are as a teacher in The Pyramid System, celebrate the new ecology of a nonagenarian with Celebrating the Quiet, and […]
Just as many of us finally settled into our virtual meeting routines we found a new challenge: hybrid meetings. A hybrid event is where some of the participants are online and some of the participants are in-person. As my colleagues and I prepared for our first hybrid meeting we realized that many of the […]
Check out our Founder page for new musings from Jane in the “Personal Reflections” section. Stop by her back porch for a brief check in on what lessons one can learn from the international Tennis scene and explore a new potential qualitative research term in Emergence Research.
As we reviewed the assessments coming in after the pilot of a newly developed training course, two words stood out: breakout rooms. Half of our team expected the feedback on these virtual discussion groups to be negative, the other wondered why almost every participant wrote about them in their responses. We pored over the data […]