This form provides more details about the program as well as helps us to gather your information and aspirations in order to build an intentional set of four teams. Your answers to these questions will help us to create successful groups who will be committed to different roles with this extraordinary Fulbright-sponsored Group Project Abroad (GPA) opportunity. We, the leadership team at the School of Education and the Center for African Studies at Pitt, will use these answers for internal review and for future reporting of combined, anonymized applicant features, for example, for required Fulbright reports and in publications.You can access a brief overview of the Kenyan GPA here. Note that the dates are approximate and will not be set until we know the relevant Pitt and district calendars stating when traveling educators must return: https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/africa/fulbright-hays-groups-project-abroad-kenya
The Ethiopian Fulbright GPA’s charming video, designed around the youthful “5 Questions Model” can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klYl6MUYmuc.
The video’s accompanying Teacher Guide, and each of the detailed and culturally vetted (English versions of the) Ethiopian-US participants’ modules can be found here for public use: https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/africa/lesson-plans-ethiopia.
Each section below includes a description of our goals and the overall design of the GPA in Kenya. This is a unique investment by the US Department, and we have both social justice commitments as well as responsibilities to make the most of our unfolding opportunities. If you have any questions that you would like to have answered in order to complete this form, please feel free to reach out to the FH-GPA PI and Lead Designer, Dr. Maureen Porter at (412) 251-3515.
