The Kansas-Senegal program combines teacher fellowships with equity in education. It was developed to create more inclusive societies, improve education, and reduce polarization at the local and global levels.
Increase intercultural knowledge.
Change awareness in attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors.
Provide equity services to communities, at first locally, and then globally.
Develop more inclusive societies.
Teach collaboration skills.
Build a network of allies committed to democracy and social change.
Provide equity services to communities in Kansas.
Help Senegalese instructors master their English.
Senegalese educators of English return to Senegal to teach English, at an improved level, and to train others.
Change awareness in attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors.
Increase intercultural knowledge.
Review and adapt curriculum for inclusivity.
American and Senegalese instructors apply to become participants of program.
Twenty participants are chosen - ten Senegalese and ten American teachers.
Teachers begin to communicate with one another via email, WhatsApp, Skype or other means of communication.
American teachers begin to share urgent needs of reform for the school.
Participants and recipients create evaluation rubric, based on outcome goals.
Senegalese teachers arrive in Kansas for training during the summer.
Senegalese teachers find appropriate lodging with the assistance of GAEN.
Senegalese teachers begin application for Kansas’ foreign exchange license.
Welcome Senegalese instructors to teach in a high school in Kansas.
Begin and/or continue work on creating a Culturally Responsive School at an American school.
Provide instructional support to teachers.
Monitor progress of program using rubric created during year one.
Schedule meetings with new teachers, to meet as a group.
Create a group of leaders at the school whose goal is to effect positive change for a more inclusive environment.
Provide diversity training for the staff, based on needs of the school in Kansas.
Incorporate We the People/Project Citizen curriculums for school reform.
Propose adoption of courses to the district course program that encourage inclusivity.
Create a Student Diversity Council, if needed.
Monitor and evaluate the program as the year progresses.
Support teachers in their desire to become more inclusive.
Continue to provide instructional support to teachers.
Continue work on creating a Culturally Responsive School, extension to community.
American teachers travel to Senegal in the summer to provide professional development to Senegalese participants and to partake in cultural training.
Continue to monitor progress of program using rubric created during year one.
Continue successful practices already established.
Continue to provide instructional support to teachers.
Work on sustaining the program, with possible extension at the district-level.
Continue to monitor progress of program using rubric created during year one.
Senegalese teachers return to Senegal.
Four-Year Plan is put into place.
Incorporate student exchanges.
Four-Year Plan is put into place.
Continue student exchanges.
Incorporate other communities.
Four-Year Plan is put into place.
Continue student exchanges, extension to other communities.
Incorporate other levels of education - elementary schools, middle schools.
Four-Year Plan is put into place.
Continue student exchanges, extension to other communities and levels of education.
Incorporate other subject matters.
Participants and recipients will create the evaluation tool during first year of program.
Increase opportunities for employees of the government.
Instructors master English, return to Senegal with improved level of English and train others.
Instructors receive American training in subject matter.
Fill difficult-to-hire positions in Kansas.
Hire instructors of French, as first language.
Instructors receive cultural training in Senegal, ability to educate American students better.
Fulfill course expectations through improvement of civil societies in the US and in Senegal.
Create inclusive curriculum.
Improve subject matter competency.
Increase intercultural knowledge.
Change awareness in attitudes, beliefs and behaviors.
Prime Minister of Senegal, Mohammed Dionne, and U. S. Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, former Representative from Kansas
Photo of Baobab, taken at Le Musée des Civilisations Noires, in Dakar, Senegal.
Jon King, American sponsor for GAEN, and Madame Sall, Senegalese sponsor.
Thierno Souleymane Diop, former instructor to the president of Senegal, and Diane Bosilevac, creator of GAEN.
