Global Leadership Center

For our children to become tomorrow’s leaders and peacebuilders, we need to provide them with an extraordinary education – one that helps develop the knowledge and wisdom needed to successfully navigate an ever-changing world.

Because of our partnership with the Stevens World Peace Foundation, St. Andrew’s has pioneered a transformative approach to teaching and learning – with a curriculum built on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals – that has resulted in a unique and impactful program housed in the Global Leadership Center.

Global Leadership Learning Outcomes

Investigate significant issues that impact peace in our world.
Recognize, articulate, and explain multiple perspectives.
Cultivate awareness of how religious, cultural, geo-political and historical backgrounds shape viewpoints.
Construct and articulate the student’s unique perspectives about the world.
Become a positive, powerful agent for peace – locally, regionally, and/or globally.
Cultivate awareness and empathetic, peace-building mindset.

Distinction in Global Leadership

This honor is conferred at Commencement for students who meet the following requirements, aligned with the Global Leadership Learning Outcomes:

4 credits of courses including Global Girls and/or Model United Nations
Independent inquiry project
Presentation of projects presented in 2 Exhibition Fairs
Priory in the City internship
At least 2 years of community service
4 consecutive years of the same world language

OUR PARTNERSHIP

The Stephen E. and Isabella H. Stevens World Peace Foundation was created to help promote peace through education, awareness, and advocacy, beginning with Hawaiʻi’s youth.

The Stevens Foundation identified The Priory as the perfect partner given our proactive, creative, supportive, and collaborative faculty, and the school’s willingness to invest the human and financial capital to provide next-level experiences to our students.

Indonesia. France. Cambodia. Switzerland. India. When our students travel, they do so with a purpose – to investigate the world and learn how to make life better for others with their expanded thinking.

We are grateful to the Stevens Foundation for making a difference in the lives of students who benefit from grant-funded travel, and in the lives of all who will be positively impacted as our graduates make their own marks on the world.

True success is when we see these young women and alumnae come back to the campus or various Stevens Foundation events to mentor and give back to the younger students. I can honestly say I’ve seen this first hand at the Priory and it’s quite motivating, to say the least.
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Theodore Rachlin, Stevens World Peace Foundation Trustee and President of Laulima Families

GLOBAL LEADERSHIP NEWS

Innovation Village Inspires Nifty Ideas in Switzerland

Mayuko Ikeda '21 was one of those students. During a Leadership Conference in Davos, Switzerland, her group used design thinking to create an ingenious protype – a smart earpiece called "SpacedIn" – which addressed the challenge of "how to harness the power of communication to create meaningful change." Her group's winning project is now on display at the Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholm.

Mayuko and nine of her Priory classmates, along with faculty chaperone Alethia Donathan, toured Europe as part of the summer Global Leadership Summit. Three days out of the of 11-day trip were spent at the conference.

"This was a great experience for our students to be global learners," said Ms. Donathan. "Not only did they meet other young people from all over the world, but they were immersed in a conference that gave them a task and they had to come up with a solution. Everyone had different ideas and together, they used problem-solving and design thinking to come up with those solutions."

Spreading Awareness of Hawaii's Food Shortage

Stephanie, who is following in Queen Emma’s footsteps to educate and improve the lives of Hawai’i’s keiki, won an HYSC grant from the Kōkua Hawaiʻi Foundation in 2019, a program designed to empower Hawaiʻi’s youth to address important conservation and sustainability challenges in their schools and communities.

Now a freshman at Cornell University studying Environment and Sustainability, Stephanie presented her grant-funded HYSC project: the “Priory Permaculture School Garden,” which focused on the benefits of permaculture, an innovative framework of living off an environment sustainably, and gave an overview of the successfully implemented model garden at The Priory.

Stephanie was inspired to apply for the grant after traveling with St. Andrew’s Schools' Pacific & Asian Affairs Council (PAAC) to Bali in 2019. On the trip, she noticed that Bali was able to produce much of what they consumed on the island, and do so sustainably, through permaculture. Upon her return to the Priory, she spearheaded the project with three primary objectives: (1) to grow and produce food for students; (2) to educate the community on climate change and sustainability; and (3) to bring the school together to work in the ‘āina and have fun.

ARTICLES

Through Their Eyes (opens in new window/tab)

Kūlia Magazine

Two Alumnae who graduated with the Distinction in Global Leadership share their experiences and the journey to becoming globally competent, engaged citizens who promote peace through action.

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Leading the Way (opens in new window/tab)

Kūlia Magazine

For our children to become tomorrow’s global changemakers, we need to provide them with an extraordinary education – one that helps develop their knowledge and nurture their compassion to successfully navigate this ever-changing world. That is what we do so well at St. Andrew’s Schools.

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