"The JDO Foundation is pleased to partner with this wonderful indigenous community to facilitate educational development, sharing, and presentation of the tsachila culture. JDO provided technology for students to assist with COVID19 remote learning. JDO will also provide tech training and digital citizenship skills to community children/parents. The ultimate goal will be to provide and guide opportunities for student interactions with global classroom peers around the world.
JDO’s partnerships engage students in authentic experiences that allow students to see issues at a variety of scales. Students in Barbara Furtadoo’s Global Citizenship class at Escola Eleva- Barra in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Ann Czeponis’s 8th Grade Science students at Our Lady of Lourdes Regional School in Pennsylvania, USA are investigating and promoting Sustainability in their schools. Sustainability is a topic that can be considered at a local and global scale.
Furtado and Czeponis have designed a collaboration that is student-driven. The international student groups will work together to identify an actionable project in their schools. Mrs. Czeponis has been awarded a PPL Empowering Educators grant to support the project implementation. PPL Foundation awards grants annually to empower educators who spark their students’ imaginations. The PPL Empowering Educators program is designed to help K-12 teachers provide hands-on learning opportunities to enhance the classroom experience and spark students’ interest in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).
Donall Coey, Crumlin Integrated Primary School teacher and JDO Partner, recently received a "Highly Commended" award for IT Educator 2022 Computing -Primary Category. This award was presented by the BCSNI -The Chartered Institute for IT, Northern Ireland Branch. The judging panel was impressed with Donall's activities and achievements for the school improvement project and his focus on digital collaboration providing training for staff and organizing digital collaboration projects for pupils locally and globally. They noted that his work has been tremendously beneficial across the school community and set a clear blueprint and foundation for ICT collaborations moving forward to enhance the ICT skills of pupils now and in the future. JDO is proud of Donall's efforts to promote and champion computing and ICT in his school and local community.
Ms. Abia Khan received praise for her submission to the 2022 Harvard Crimson Global Essay Competition as well as her video entry in the New York Times, Learning Network, 15- Second Vocabulary Video Contest!
Ms. Pihu Pant received praise for her submission to the 2022 Harvard Crimson Global Essay Competition and was selected as Mini Editor for the renowned Indian Newspaper Hindustan Times School Edition! She will have a crucial role in creating children's newspaper editions.
