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Fall 2018 | wyoea.edu X 10 Fall 2018 | wyoea.edu Amen came back to the states with a renewed commitment to adding global education to her classroom curriculum. "Learning how to integrate global education into your curriculum and standards across all subjects is challenging to wrap your head around. I am doing my best to not make it harder than it needs to be. Global education is about teaching students how to understand diverse perspectives, how to understand their connection to a wider world, eff ectively communicating and collaborating across cultures and countries, and using knowledge to take action on issues that matter to them in the wider world. It is about giving students the ability to begin understanding the importance of that human connection." Amen is now doing just that in her Cheyenne fourth grade classroom. She explains, "Global education opens doors for everyone. It gives students the opportunity to investigate the world and learn how to make a diff erence by creating compassion and empathy for people throughout the world." "Teachers in South Africa literally motivated students with nothing. With the resources I have in the United States, I know I can do more. After all, how can you experience something like talking to people who survived apartheid and not have it change you and how you teach?" Amen was part of the fi rst year of the application process for the NEA Global Learning Fellowship Program. Previously, only those who were presented with the NEA Foundation for the Improvement of Education award were eligible. Since that has changed, WEA is able to congratulate yet another NEA Global Fellow, WEA minority board representative, Lydia Rayfi eld as she joins the 2019 cohort, following in Amen's footsteps in South Africa. Kim Amen serves as the Treasurer of the Wyoming Education Association Board of Directors and is committed to the work of WEA and NEA. To learn more about the NEA Global Learning Fellowship Program go to: www. neafoundation.org. Kim Amen seeing the sights, including elephants, in South Africa. The NEA Global Fellowship cohort group of 2018 including Kim Amen from Cheyenne. Kim Amen in visiting beach in Cape Town, South Africa.

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