Facilitators

• Shelly Maldanado
  International School of Kenya
  Counselor
  

  Shelly is currently a counselor at the International School of Kenya (ISK). She has been a school counselor in North America, Asia, and now Africa for almost 20 years and has been in a variety of educator roles in and out of schools for nearly 30 years. One of her passions is building cultural awareness and competency in school communities.  More recently, she has worked closely with the International School Counselor Association (ISCA), Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL), International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC), International School Services (ISS) Diversity Collaborative, and Association of International Schools in Africa (AISA) to help ground safeguarding and DEI practices into international school communities.

• Calley Connelly
  International Community School of Addis Ababa
  Educator
  

  Calley has been an international school educator since 2002 when she joined the Peace Corps and served as an agroforestry volunteer in the Far North of Cameroon and took her first unofficial job as a math teacher. Her educational experiences range from leading a department of one in the American International School of Bamako, Mali, to leading schoolwide mathematics professional learning as a K-12 math coach. Calley’s interests as an emerging school leader include diversity, equity and inclusion in international schools, nurturing trust, wellbeing and leadership capacity in PLC team members, and developing a replicable hub model for personalized learning.