Global Teaching Dialogue
July 2020

Technology in the Global Classroom

About the Presenters

Dave Eisenberg
Teachers for Global Classrooms Program to Colombia
Teacher, Eleanor Roosevelt High School
Greenbelt, MD

Dave Eisenberg has taught at Eleanor Roosevelt High School since 1997, where he teaches project-based engineering classes, acts as Green School Coordinator, is part of the Japanese Exchange Program committee, and sponsors the Get Into Tech Club. He has undergraduate degrees from Frostburg State University and the University of Maryland, a master’s degree from Johns Hopkins, and completed engineering teacher programs at the University of Maryland and the University of Texas. He is a 2020 first prize winner of The Henry Ford’s Innovation Nation Teacher Innovator Award, a certified National Geographic Educator, a Teachers for Global Classroom Fellow to Colombia, and an inductee into the Rocky Gorge Rugby Hall of Fame.

Dave supervised students on a trip to Japan to participate in a science fair at Atsugi High School. He was lead teacher of an ERHS student team that collaborated with Ghanian students during the IREX World Smarts STEM Challenge in which their team won the grand prize. Dave continues to remain in contact with teachers and students in Japan, Ghana and Colombia; he is currently working on establishing virtual exchange programs with schools in Spain and China.

Argine Safari
Fulbright Distinguished Awards in Teaching Research Program to Finland
Teacher, Pascack Valley High School
Hillsdale, NJ

Argine Safari is passionate about transforming the lives of her students through the power of music and global connections. At Pascack Valley High School, she developed a nationally recognized vocal program, traveling with her groups nationally from Washington, D.C. to Los Angeles, CA and internationally to Canada and Ireland. Argine is active as a clinician and chamber musician, having performed at Carnegie Hall, Madison Square Garden, and Zankel Hall.

In 2013, Argine co-founded a non-profit youth theater arts company, Stage Scene and Song Performing Arts, with a mission to transform and empower its participant through the arts. Prior to Pascack Valley, Argine shared her gifts with the Grammy award-winning Brooklyn Youth Chorus. Argine is the 2010 Princeton University Distinguished Scholar, 2017 New Jersey State Teacher of the Year, the 2017 Evangelina Menendez Trailblazer, NEA Foundation 2018 Teaching Excellence Award recipient, 2018 Lowell Milken Fellow, the NJEA 2018 Arts Educator of the Year, and the 2019 Fulbright Distinguished Awards in Teaching Research Program fellow. Argine is fluent in three languages and is currently a Doctoral candidate at Walden University. Argine’s article on innovative teaching was published in Moscow in 2019. In May 2020, she was featured in Dr. Bilha Fish’s book Invincible Women: Conversations with 21 Inspiring and Successful American Immigrants.

Resources

Presentation Deck - Globalizing Education Through Virtual Exchanges