2011 SEVEN Fund Teaching Fellowships
In 2011, The SEVEN Fund sponsored a fellowship program to bring teachers from around the United States together in Rwanda to learn about enterprise solutions to poverty. The teachers met with entrepreneurs, government officials, members of civil society, and conducted field visits to multiple schools.
The teachers wrote op-eds on their experience; many of these can be found online at www.daedalusexperiment.com. The teachers also developed a set of curricula integrating
lessons that they learned during the trip and adapting them for use in the classroom. The lesson plans below are their own work, and represent options for diverse settings, grade levels, and subject matter. The lesson plans were produced to explore one of the following themes:
1. History of Rwanda, Reconciliation and Rebirth
2. Enterprise Solutions to Poverty and the COW-F framework by Michael Fairbanks
3. Pro-Innovation Mindsets
4. Sustainable Communities
This short film, by filmmaker Laura Waters Hinson of Image Bearer, provides an inside look at the SEVEN Fund Teaching Fellows program 2011.
Sue Campbell
Middle School Teacher, San Francisco, CA
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Activities
Movie - Lesson 4 – Conservation Education (Right-Click to Download)
Movie - Lesson 5 – Rwanda Gorillas (Right-Click to Download)
Ellen Dobie
Elementary School Teacher, Phoenix, AZ
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Presentation - The Land of a Thousand Hills: Lessons of Rebirth and Reconciliation
Presentation - Entrepreneurial Role Models from Around the World
Martha Fox
Writing Specialist, Manchester, MA
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Rich Lehrer
8th Grade Teacher, Manchester, MA
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Rwanda Presentation
Rwanda Movie (Right-Click to Download)
Marilese Peltier
K-4 Special Education Teacher, Ann Arbor, MI
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Rwanda Movie (Right-Click to Download)
Entrepreneurs create products, services and jobs. They expand economies, improve people's lives, provide employment (high and rising wages) and bring about competition. A competitive environment, in turn, gives rise to efficiency, meritocracy and further innovations and entrepreneurial drive.
The potent combination of entrepreneurship and technological innovation can forge an environment that is conducive to further enterprise, involving even government policy in supporting entrepreneurship and innovation.
