Daphne Foreman is a language arts teacher at City High School, where since 1998. Though Daphne planned to stay a mere five years when she moved from the Twin Cities to Iowa City, she found that she couldn’t leave the college town that boasts the Writer’s Workshop and is now an UNESCO City of Literature. She earned her MAT in English education from the University of Iowa in 1995. At City High, Daphne taught students of grades 9-12 in core literature courses, composition and reading electives. She also served as sponsor of many student groups including the Multicultural Gender Fair Club; the Break Dancing Club; and The Review, the student library magazine. When her two children moved off to college, Daphne earned the Laura Bush Teacher Librarian Fellowship to study Library and Information Science, also at UI, and later graduated with her cohort in May 2010. She still teaches in the language arts classroom, and she plans to move to a vibrant high school library in the next few years. In both places, Daphne hopes to energize and extend her and her colleagues’ teaching with global perspectives, pedagogy and 21st Century skills.

In her Global Education Guide, Daphne Foreman provides a unit plan on creating Public Health materials. Students read bestselling public health books and study public service announcements. At the end of the unit, students develop a public health campaign complete with multimedia materials. Daphne traveled to Ghana for her International Field Experience and developed a travel blog where you can find additional resources.