International Academic Partnership in Pakistan
Elisabeth E. Tully, Director of the Oliver Wendell Holmes Library at Phillips Academy, traveled to Karachi, Pakistan this summer to support the development of libraries in four schools in the Aga Kahn Educational Network. These schools serve pupils from Pre-K to 12th grade. Elisabeth spent two weeks in Karachi, during which she led a workshop for thirty librarians, teachers, and principals on the topic of “Libraries as Learning Hub” and was a featured speaker at the first-ever national conference on the importance of school libraries.
Elisabeth created a blog to support the workshop and to foster continuing communication between librarians at Andover and those at the target schools in Karachi.
The blog, “Collaboratory” is available here: www.andoverblog.typepad.com/collaboratory..
The picture is of some of the workshop participants, with the OWH Library mascot, Oliver the OWL, who accompanied Elisabeth on the trip.
The consultancy was sponsored by the International Academic Partnership, an organization which promotes global education and student-centered teaching at participating schools. The program focuses on professional development for teachers and curricular innovation at all affiliated institutions. Since its founding in 1993, the IAP has linked schools in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America to create a living laboratory for the study of issues related to developing nations and to provide a forum for the dissemination of methods of cooperative teaching and learning.
The members of the IAP are Aga Khan Education Service, Phillips Academy, the Institute for Educational Development of Aga Khan University, and Schule Schloss Salem.
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