The Millennium Development Goals, Service Learning, and Episcopal Identity

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The Millennium Development Goals, Service
Learning, and Episcopal Identity

• Spencer Edmunds, Tricia Fisher, and Amanda Wall
• Canterbury School
• Greensboro, NC

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What are the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)?

• Eight goals set forth in the United Nations
  Millennium Declaration (2000)
• Respond to the worlds main development
  challenges
• The stated target is that the MDGs should be
  achieved by 2015
• The Episcopal Church has endorsed the MDGs.

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The MDGs at a Glance

• End poverty hunger
• Universal education
• Gender equality
• Child health

• Maternal health
• Combat HIV/AIDS
• Environmental sustainability
• Global partnership

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The MDGs at Canterbury

• Our goal at Canterbury is that students grow
  hearts and minds for service and change through
  their interactions with the MDGs.

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How Students Encounter the MDGs

• MDG Explorers
• Composition
• Service Learning
• Episcopal Nature of the school

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MDG Explorers

• 7th Graders develop global understanding by
• spending 2 days outside on our 40 acre campus
• becoming a citizen of a city in China, India,
  Africa, or Afghanistan
• experiencing shortfalls in money, food, and other
  resources
• undertaking challenges on our high and low ropes
  courses
• working toward completing a development project
  linked to MDGs.

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Composition

• 8th Graders build on MDG Explorers by
• Researching one of the MDGs
• Proposing and arguing for a new MDG
• Developing an activity that promotes the MDGs or
  links them to service learning.

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Service Learning

• Middle School students go to several agencies in
  the community three times per year.
• We have tried to select agencies based on the
  ideas in the MDGs.

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Episcopal Nature of the School

• We are able to relate our work with the MDGs to
  the message of the Gospel.
• Students have designed and lead chapel services
  based on the MDGs.

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Participants in our session

• will learn more about the MDGs
• will see examples of student work
• will hear what students have to say about the
  MDGs
• will experience an MDG Explorers simulation.
• See you in Tampa!