Linda Rummell
Linda Rummell, the sixth-grade gifted teacher at Liberty Park Middle School, was selected as a United States Department of State’s Teachers for Global Classrooms fellow.
Teachers for Global Classrooms is a professional development fellowship that includes an eight-week online global education course, a global education symposium in Washington, D.C., and a two-week international field experience. This is a program of the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and is administered by IREX.
In March, Rummell traveled to Tbilisi and Gurjaani, which are two regions in the Republic of Georgia. She traveled with 11 other teachers from across the United States to Tbilisi and with one other teacher to Gurjaani. While in Tbilisi, she met with representatives of the United States Embassy as well as the head of the National Curriculum Department and the head of Higher Education and Science Development of the Ministry of Education and Science in Georgia. She also visited several schools. When she returned, she was asked to be an alumni representative for the program as well as TGC reader for the 2016-17 applications.
Submitted by Linda Rummell.
