{"id":25928,"date":"2025-11-20T16:12:40","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T00:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/?p=25928"},"modified":"2025-11-20T17:01:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T01:01:23","slug":"calis-teaches-teens-to-understand-a-changing-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/calis-teaches-teens-to-understand-a-changing-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching teens to understand a changing world"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n    \n                                          \n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--article-hero \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--article-hero\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n<div class=\"inner-wrapper\">\n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img\n                            data-src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/11\/calis_top-768x432.jpg\"\n          data-srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/11\/calis_top-1920x1080.jpg 1920w,https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/11\/calis_top-1280x720.jpg 1280w,https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/11\/calis_top-768x432.jpg 768w\"          data-sizes=\"(min-width:1200px) 75vw, (min-width:768px) 83vw, 100vw\"          class=\"lazyload\"\n        \n                  alt=\"Illustration showing college students teaching teens.\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n  \n      <div class=\"image-caption\">\n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n   High schoolers get extra knowledge and USC students acquire hands-on teaching experience through programs offered by CALIS. (Composite: Letty Avila; Image Source: iStock.)\n\n\n<\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  \n  <div class=\"text-wrapper\">\n          <nav aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\" class=\"breadcrumbs\">\n        <ul>\n                      <li><a href=\"\/news\/stories\/\">News<\/a><\/li>\n                      <li><a href=\"\/news\/stories\/\/?category=social-impact\">Social Impact<\/a><\/li>\n                  <\/ul>\n      <\/nav>\n    \n              \n<div class=\"f--field f--page-title\">\n\n    \n  <h1>Teaching teens to understand a changing world<\/h1>\n\n\n<\/div>\n    \n          <div class=\"subtitle\">\n            \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  For 25 years, the Center for Active Learning in International Studies at USC Dornsife has taught local high schoolers how to look beyond the headlines and examine the forces shaping global events.\n\n\n<\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    \n           <strong class=\"author-field\"><span >By<\/span><a href=\"mailto:communication@dornsife.usc.edu\">Margaret Crable<\/a><\/strong>\n    \n          <span class=\"post-date-field\">November 20, 2025<\/span>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--social-share \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--social-share\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n  <div class=\"content-wrapper\">\n    <span class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_32 addtoany_list\" style=\"line-height: 32px;\">\n      <span class=\"title\">\n        Share\n      <\/span>\n                        <a class=\"a2a_button_copy_link\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"\/#copy_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Link\">\n            <span class=\"a2a_svg a2a_s__default a2a_s_copy_link\">\n              <svg height=\"19\" viewBox=\"0 0 19 19\" width=\"19\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"m7.43475275 9.52380952-2.17490843 2.26076008c-1.08745421 1.058837-1.68841575 2.518315-1.68841575 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style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Much has changed around the world in the 25 years since the new millennium began. A major earthquake and tsunami in Japan, wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, and a global pandemic have all dominated headlines. Smartphones, then social media, and now generative AI have upended how we share news and even discern reality.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Throughout it all, the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/calis\/service-learning\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Teaching International Relations Program<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (TIRP) has provided Los Angeles-area teens with the skills to better understand complex global events. TIRP is run by the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences\u2019 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/calis\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Center for Active Learning in International Studies (CALIS)<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The program trains and then deploys Trojan undergraduates into local high schools where they \u201cteam-teach\u201d using analytical tools and lessons specially designed to get young people thinking critically about foreign relations. These student volunteers also gain new skills, like classroom management and, in the age of instant information, practice in thinking on their feet.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cStudent teachers are often confronted in the classroom with questions they can\u2019t just look up on their phone,\u201d says <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/profile\/steven-lamy\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Steve Lamy<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, CALIS founder and Professor Emeritus of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/poir\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Political Science and International Relations<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/spatial\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Spatial Sciences<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>CALIS replaces missing studies in K-12 classrooms<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CALIS is part of Lamy\u2019s career-long effort to fill what he sees as major gaps in K-12 education. Social studies classes have been dropped from some districts. History classes often stop with the end of the Cold War. Lesson plans don\u2019t always provide a framework for in-depth analysis of conflicts or foreign policy decisions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a graduate student at the University of Denver in the 1970s, Lamy spent his weekends traveling the state to provide continuing education on international relations to high-school teachers who were eager to update their classroom materials.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/poir\/remembering-longtime-sir-professor-michael-fry-1934-2025\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Michael Fry<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, former dean of international relations at the University of Denver, arrived at USC Dornsife to lead the international relations department in 1981, he recruited Lamy to join the faculty and spin up its undergraduate and outreach programs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_25931\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25931\" style=\"width: 515px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-25931\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/11\/instory-a.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of USC students working together in a classroom.\" width=\"515\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/11\/instory-a.jpg 980w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/11\/instory-a-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/11\/instory-a-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 515px) 100vw, 515px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25931\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">USC students train their fellow students, readying them to teach TIRP materials. (Photos courtesy: Teresa Hudock)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At USC Dornsife, Lamy continued his training of high school teachers, launching the Center for Public Education in International Affairs (CPE) to house these efforts. Through a CPE-sponsored workshop, Lamy met Teresa Hudock. He recruited her to work at CPE, and she later became the founding director of CALIS.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lamy also began training undergraduate students and partnering them with teachers in local classrooms, laying the foundation for TIRP. In 2000, California provided funding to centralize Lamy\u2019s initiatives into a resource center for K-12 international studies. This launched CALIS, and although the source of its funding has evolved considerably since then, its mission has remained the same. Each year, CALIS pairs over 150 USC students with partner-teachers in local high schools and also provides training and instruction materials to teachers.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TIRP\u2019s curriculum uses a variety of unique tools and frameworks, most notably, Lamy\u2019s \u201cFour Worlds\u201d model.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this analytic framework, students dig into cultures and nations by considering the four \u201cworlds\u201d that exist within each society: political, economic, social and cultural.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Within the political sphere, students uncover what laws citizens are expected to follow, the taxes they pay, and what civil rights they have. In the economic world, students study property rights and how services are paid for. Social and cultural spheres encompass living conditions and lifestyle options. As these four worlds are better understood, students can examine how these factors work together or clash.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The framework can be applied historically, such as a CALIS lesson plan on the four worlds of the ancient Mesopotamian civilization of Sumer. It can also be used to better understand the United States students are living in today.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWith partner teachers, the Four Worlds tool has been credited with raising state test scores and dramatically increasing the pass rate for Advanced Placement exams,\u201d says Hudock.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Above all, Lamy wants CALIS\u2019 analytical tools to help students get out of \u201cgroove\u201d thinking, the well-worn perspective shaped by peers, parents and media consumption. Thinking critically about world events from a variety of perspectives, even just for a little while, challenges young minds in fruitful ways, he says.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>CALIS\u2019s legacy spans generations<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thanks to its longevity, some TIRP student-volunteers have now returned to the program, this time as CALIS partner-teachers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_25932\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25932\" style=\"width: 483px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-25932\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/11\/calis-a.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Shannon Gibson standing at front of a classroom, pointing at a projector screen.\" width=\"483\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/11\/calis-a.jpg 980w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/11\/calis-a-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/11\/calis-a-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 483px) 100vw, 483px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25932\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shannon Gibson, professor (teaching) of environmental studies and political science and international relations, recently led a high school seminar exploring climate change alongside TIRP student teachers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Leyl<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00e2<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Fikes \u201903 served as a TIRP student-teacher while completing her bachelor\u2019s degree in<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/center-for-languages-and-cultures\/1035-2\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Spanish<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/poir\/international-relations-b-a\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">International Relations<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at USC Dornsife. The experience changed the course of her career. \u201cTIRP was such a positive experience for me,\u201d she says. \u201cThe response and feedback I got played a huge role in my decision to become an educator,\u201d she says. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fikes now teaches Spanish and social studies 30 minutes from USC at Hawthorne High School, where she\u2019s also an enthusiastic CALIS partner-teacher. \u201cI have absolutely relished the opportunities for me and my students to participate in USC leadership conferences and in simulation elections,\u201d says Fikes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alumnus <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/lidow-awarded-gates-cambridge-scholarship\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reid Lidow<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> says TIRP teaching enables many USC students to put their interest in changing the world into actual practice.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cPassion is great, but it\u2019s not enough,\u201d says Lidow, who completed his bachelor\u2019s degree in political science and international relations at USC Dornsife in 2014 and is now completing his law degree at Yale.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThat passion must translate into action, and that action must improve the lives of others. That\u2019s the guiding spirit behind CALIS, a message\u00a0Dr. Lamy and Teresa have shared with students like me for more than a generation.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>CALIS looks forward to the next 25 years<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CALIS is currently working on an expansion of TIRP to local 5th-grade classes, says Hudock, and is developing a curriculum that will prepare students in 3rd through 8th grades for the TIRP discussions they\u2019ll encounter in high school.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She\u2019s hopeful that USC Dornsife will continue to be a strong source for robust K-12 social science education, both locally through TIRP and globally through CALIS teaching resources.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In December, Hudock is headed to the National Council for the Social Studies conference in Washington, D.C., where a CALIS partner-teacher will give a presentation on the analytical tools CALIS has available for all interested K-12 schools. \u201cIt\u2019s been an exciting and humbling journey, and we have a very long way to go,\u201d she says.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n  \n        \n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--article-related-stories \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--article-related-stories\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n  <div class=\"inner-wrapper\">\n              \n<div class=\"f--field f--section-title\">\n\n    \n  <h2>\n          Related Articles\n      <\/h2>\n\n\n<\/div>\n    \n                  <article>\n              \n<div class=\"f--field f--cta-title\">\n\n    \n  <h3>\n          <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/dad-brain-is-real-its-reshaping-our-understanding-of-fatherhood\/\" \n                        class=\"\" \n      >\u2018Dad brain\u2019 is real. 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