NAIS- Integrating Global Education in our Schools

Talking Heads- Continuing the conversation about global initiatives in other schools

Global Education Summit (GES) participants and other school leaders are invited to compare notes on global education in their schools. Schools with innovative programs or solutions will have the opportunity to share what works, how, and why.

Presenters:�

1. Dick Hall, NAIS Board Global Task Force
2. Barbara Chase, Phillips Academy (MA)
3. John Strudwick, Lake Forest Academy (IL)
4. Jack Creeden, Providence Day School (RI)
5. Paul Geise, Pine Point School (CT)
6. Bill Christ, Hathaway Brown School (OH)
7. Claudia Gallant, Sewickley Academy (PA)

Curriculum that isn�t taught but happens when international students come into the community.

Organizations:

•  NAIS- 20/20
• Assist
• Global school/ Global village
•  www.nais.org > resources>global education

Not content to give a fish or teach how to fish, but to revolutionize the fishing industry

www.globalconnections.org

Claudia Gallant

Pennsylvania � Why should you change a �perfectly� fine program. How do you prepare the kids for a global view? Program has to be mission driven. Faculty usually think about their own classes or departments. First conversation has to be about the mission of the school. How will the faculty respond to the mission. Board � Leadership- Faculty- Parents.
Big picture- requires architecture. Don�t think about specifics, but the whole. Where are you heading to?

1. Design on the pieces on what is already there. What are you doing already, as a piece, of a big puzzle.
   1. Faculty committed to a foreign language program. Sending students and faculty on exchanges. They come back transformed. Individuals were changed, but not the system. They came back to a place, where the individual had a hard time adjusting. If that does not happen, the relationship is out of sync.
2. Grassroots of the faculty has to be developed. Teachers teach what they like. Need incentive to give them. Professional Development needs to be in plan. Strategic plans that includes global awareness. First teachers going to a country, then coming back and taking students.
3. Formed a global task force among faculty. Send them to schools with great programs. Call to find out if they would host the group. Faculty that expressed interest , went to these places and came back to be the leaders. That leadership comes from their experiences.
4. Global studies program, will be built from the lower school up. Language, cultural awareness. Global Studies program certificate, when students graduate
   1. Service piece
   2. Academic piece
   3. Experiential piece
   4. Language piece

Paul Geise
Pre-K-9
Dolphin Project
Small school in CT www.pinepoint.org

Start the process of global education early on. Global connections. School community- parents, students, faculty.
Clear on mission of core value-what do you have to contribute and how do you partner? As a small school they partner. What resources do you have available to you?
International Study program. Take the studies on the road. 9th grade plan and prepare an overseas experience. Ex. They are going to UK this year. Where is learning to be had. Just go and find it.
Two initiatives:

1. Dolphin Project
   1. Partner with domestic aquarium. Researcher use office space on their campus. After school programs of dolphin communication research. Students have gone out into the field with the researchers (Japan/Honduras/Bahamas)
2. Establishing as an International school

Bill Chris
Cleveland, OH
Center of Global Citizenship
Blueprint for girls� education.
Academics, Arts, Athletic, in orbit around the core, beyond classroom experiences are offered. Everyone in the student body gets involved. Atmosphere changes, even if you are not willing to go a certain route, you will get transformed. Full time CEO of that program. Someone needs to be in charge of the program. Teachers cannot just lay low and ignore what the path of the school is

• Curricular part
• Students life dimension
• Exchanges and partnerships
• Faculty travel and exchanges
• Service learning
• Lecture series
• Internships with business in the area.

Partnership with schools around the world. Branch Operations. Import and export business in the educational field. Send students and teachers. International educational Symposium once a year among partnering schools
Technology offers great opportunities. All students have opportunities to talk to others around the world.
Develop a program with will and energy!! Hire diverse international faculty.

Jack Creeden

World View Program University of North Carolina. www.providenceday.org
Diploma Global Studies In conjunction with their HS diploma. Form of a major
1. Required part
o Language
o World
o Global Studies course
2. Electives
o World Religion
o Comparing Political Systems
o Second foreign language
3. Extra Curriculum Requirement
o Non classroom programs
o Global studies lectures (outside speakers)
o Model UN
o World Quest
4. Cross Cultural Experience
o Host exchange students
o Be an exchange student
o Global Research Project. Identify a global issue that is important to them, then present to a global faculty committee

Diploma is only in Upper school. Trickle down effect to Lower School.

Participation for Faculty Diploma- Language learning, travel abroad experience

John Strudwick
Global Youth Leadership Institute
How can schools deliver a global education

1. Clear and consistent vision of global vision
2. Coordinated and integrated program (internally and external partnership)
3. Total commitment to the vision from head of school and board of trustees

Global Pluralism- Cosmopolitanism
It is not only about tolerance, diversity, but to celebrate. Educate without hierarchy.
Curriculum- Programs that show constituents that we really mean what we say.
Looking for experiences for our faculty. SEND THEM ABROAD.

Fully committed and embraced. Even admission needs to be committed and embrace to recruit and admit students from diverse cultural backgrounds. Partnering programs and outside initiative. Assist program.

Global Youth Leadership Institute
Focus and achieve global understand Individual and collaborative leadership to assist schools in their missions to inspire socially responsible young people.
Earth a Model of Global Pluralism (Costa Rica)
www.gyli.org

Barbara Chase

Dilemmas schools face

• Focus, can�t let your energy be dispersed by too many things
• Sustainability- environmentally, cost of traveling
• Technology- network
• Financial Aid- Offer programs that some students won�t be able to afford??
• What courses to teach
• What language to teach- Does it include culture?
• We only have so much energy.IF the international part of global becomes too important. How do we balance local with global. Global does not only mean international it also means local.
• Grassroots vs. Top-Down

Get out of the way to good Ideas