In 2014, recognizing our need to significantly revamp a two-week residential program preparing adults to live and work outside of their passport country, we asked Global Learning Partners for help. GLP facilitators, Peter Noteboom and Jeanette Romkema had already been involved as trainers of our trainers from 2004-2011 through Learning to Listen and Learning to […]
During one of my first Google Hangout meetings with Dr. Jane Vella, I asked her how she built Global Learning Partners. I was so curious about how she created a company out of her gifts of facilitation and teaching adults. She replied, “with a lot of tears.” Jane’s level of transparency and vulnerability left a […]
This is an excerpt from a draft internal content standards handbook for our organization that describes our theology of change, poverty alleviation framework, and approach to learning. We are so grateful for your work in the world! Section C: Learning Best Practices Any situation in which some men prevent others from engaging in the […]
I want to take a moment to celebrate Jane Vella and the incredible work of GLP. I am a program officer at the International Budget Partnership, an organization working on budget transparency and accountability to advance social justice. We work closely with civil society organization in many regions of the world and currently, we are […]
My favorite memories of working with Jane are many, but here are two: 1 — back in the 90’s sometime, when I introduced Jane to California WIC, she came out to lead a workshop. It was probably 200 people, and it looked like the perfect time for a lecture. But not Jane! She got the […]
Jane is the only person in the world who greets me when I call by exclaiming “Oh angel, it is so good to hear from you.” No one else calls me ‘angel’. The ultimate in lavish affirmation. Ellen Turgasen
Jane’s book “Learning to Listen, Learning to Teach” was required reading for 3 learning programs I attended: 2 were national adult literacy tutor train the trainer programs (Literacy Volunteers of America and Laubach Literacy) and 1 was orientation for the Masters of Adult Education program at St. FX in Nova Scotia. I snuck into an introductory course in New Orleans in the 90s with Joye Norris and a group of “School to […]
I’ll never forget how it felt walking into the training room 20+ years ago to take my first course with Jane Vella. I walked straight into a circle of rocking chairs – yup, you heard me, a circle of rocking chairs. Like all public courses at that time Jane taught in North Carolina, tucked away […]
As I reflect on the past year + and all that we have learned from the pandemic, I am struck by the “global” nature of my last public experience with Global Learning Partners. In the winter of 2020, January to be exact, a group of dedicated teaching professionals gathered over five days at a Bed […]
I wish I had known you in 1992 when I was writing my thesis on training mother-tongue translators in Melanesia, but my meeting your work through Roland Walker in 1999 upon my return from 4 years in Cameroon was perfect timing for the next phase of my career. I helped him develop “Learning that LASTS” […]