By Olivia Howes | October 5, 2918
Personally, I have grown to think of the staff at World View as valued colleagues and am a better educator and administrator because of my involvement with their team.
World View would like to showcase the work that John Nabors is doing to leverage and highlight the importance of global competencies among the teachers in his district and North Carolina. John Nabors is the K-12 Social Studies Specialist with Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools, the eighteenth largest school district by enrollment in the nation and the second largest in North Carolina. John works with teachers that serve roughly 148,000 students, from 183 different counties and 197 different native languages, in 176 different schools.
John has been a very active and valued participant in World View programs. He has participated in the K-12 Global Education Symposium for the past five years and had the opportunity to present at last year’s K-12 Symposium on Human Rights in social studies. Most recently he was a member of the Global Education Leaders Program 2018 cohort. This five-day program in Chapel Hill allowed him to collaborate with colleagues from across the state, which proved to be a unique experience for John, allowing him to further develop a network of like-minded administrators. It also earned him the honor of being voted the 2018 class representative for the group of K-12 administrators who attended the Global Education Leaders Program.
John has worked hard to foster his work and the district’s partnership with World View to help emphasize the importance of supporting diversity, access to great teaching and the collaboration of teachers and administrators. Moving forward John aims to leverage global competencies by aligning global understandings to the North Carolina Essential Standards for Social Studies and using an Understanding by Design model of curriculum development. By doing this he hopes to “unify the message to teachers that equity and global awareness are of key importance while bringing us a step closer to equitable access of a strong, globally minded curriculum for all students.”