A New Way to Learn

Global Civ is a learning partnership between individual learners, mentors, and organizations from around the world. In its first year pilot program, an individual learner based in Midcoast Maine will co-design a rigorous program of study with mentors in all academic disciplines and partner with Marine Scientists, organic farmers, historians, authors, and other learners from North America.

Global Civ will operate year round on a block schedule that will feature interdisciplinary curriculum that is flexible to learner needs and travel requirements. Mentors who are specialists and generalists work directly with students in the planning process for each block and have appropriate time to develop rigorous and standards based independent curriculum that is relevant, applied, and personalized.

Individuals will co-create powerful learning experiences for themselves and have the ability to connect with other young people around the world. Individual learners are responsible for creating a dynamic record of their learning process with ePortfolios and they connect with the world through a system of web based project management|collaboration, mobile learning, and web conferencing.

Fellows

Jake Maxmin

Jake serves as the co-founder of Global Civ and the 2010-2011 pilot project fellow. More on Jake!

Mentors

The 2010-2011 Global Civ pilot project is comprised of learning mentors who work with Jake Maxmin and as a collective to develop the curriculum that is emerging in Global Civ.
Thomas Steele-Maley (Social Sciences, ELA, and Service Learning, eLearning and Blended Learning Administrator)
Ingrid Bathe (Visual Arts, Social Sciences)
Bo Gallup (Quantitative Reasoning, Experimental Sciences)
Shoshana Zuboff (Writing and Spanish)