E-Newsletter - January 28, 2005
from the Washington State Coalition for International
Education
News from the Coalition
Report from the 2004 States Institute
Caleb Perkins from the State Team put together a report from the States
Institute on International Education, held in DC November 15-17, 2004. You
can read the action items on the web:
http://internationaledwa.org/coalition/state_team.htm or
download the 2-page report from the web:
PDF format:
http://internationaledwa.org/coalition/reports/2004_States_Institute_Report.pdf
or
Word Doc format:
http://internationaledwa.org/coalition/reports/2004_States_Institute_Report.doc
Washington Teacher Of The Year Awarded $1500 "International Education
Scholarship" To Create Global Connections
Tamara Steen, Washington State "Teacher of the Year" was presented
with a $1500 "International Education Scholarship" at the opening session
of the 12th Annual OSPI January Conference, held in Seattle, WA January
19-20. Superintendent of Public Instruction Terry Bergeson
announced the award before the 4000 teachers in attendance. Read complete
Press Release:
http://internationaledwa.org/news/press/release_01282005.htm.
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In the News
(see
http://internationaledwa.org/news.htm)
North Carolina Senator Introduces Bill on Global Education
North Carolina Senator A.B. Swindell intends to introduce legislation
to promote global education because of the importance of Asia to the
economy of North Carolina and the nation. Read the article (PDF):
http://internationaledwa.org/news/articles/Wilsong_Daily_Times_012105Swindell.pdf
The Conversation with Ross Reynolds on "The Year of Languages"
Aired January 3, 2005 at 1 pm Pacific KUOW 94.9 fm. Available on the
Conversation archive -
http://www.kuow.org/TheConversation.asp. Listen to the
program via streaming audio.
2005: Year of Languages
The U.S. has a long history of apathy (or even hostility) with regard
to learning foreign languages. Now we are paying the price for our lack of
attention to foreign languages. Are priorities going to change? "Enter
'2005: The Year of Languages,' a national public awareness campaign that
may be our best hope to put language learning in the spotlight and engage
in a fruitful national conversation about the relationship between
Americans and foreign language learning."
ASCD (Dec 2004/Jan 2005 pages 20-23)
Japanese Officials and the College Board Announce an Advanced Placement
Program® Course in Japanese Language and Culture (November 10, 2004)
Ambassador of Japan Ryozo Kato and College Board President Gaston Caperton
today announced the creation of an Advanced Placement Program (AP) course
and examination in Japanese Language and Culture, part of the College
Board’s commitment to promoting instruction in world languages and
cultures in American schools. Download
press release from
Internationaled.org.
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Announcements
(see
http://internationaledwa.org/news/announcements.htm)
Japanese Studies Scholarship
(Deadline: Monday, March 14,
2005)
This program offers students an intensive course of the Japanese
language and introduction to Japanese studies. Available to undergraduate
students who are currently majoring or minoring in Japan-related studies
at a 4-year university. Applicants must be 18 to 29 years of age as of
April 1, 2005. Term of scholarship: Sept. or Oct. 2005-Sept. 2006.
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Teacher Training Student Scholarship
(Deadline: Monday, March 14,
2005)
A one and a half-year teacher training program at Japanese universities
is available to primary and secondary school teachers with at least five
years of teaching experience. Term of scholarship: Oct. 2005-March 2007.
Applicants need to be less than 35 year of age as of April 1, 2006.
To REQUEST APPLICATIONS and for more information, please contact:
Consulate-General of Japan at Seattle
Scholarship Desk
E-mail:
education@cgjapansea.org
Phone: 206-682-9107 ext.135
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Children of War
Winter 2005 the Simpson Center for the Humanities and the Division of
Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Washington are proud to
sponsor a series of related events on the effects of war on children. The
centerpiece is the acclaimed exhibit of children’s drawings made in the
20th century’s many war zones. Entitled They Still Draw Pictures:
Children’s Art in Wartime from the Spanish Civil War to Kosovo, the
exhibit will end its national tour at the University of Washington. The
exhibit is accompanied by an undergraduate course on poetry and politics
in the Spanish Civil War, a film series, and a public symposium. For
details, see
http://internationaledwa.org/news/flyers/Children_of_War_schedule.pdf
(PDF).
Center for Spanish Studies - CSS
Division of Spanish and Portuguese
University of Washington
e-mail:
spnrectr@u.washington.edu
Páginas de utilidad para profesores y maestros:
http://depts.washington.edu/spanport/
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International Education and Resource Network (iEARN) Teacher
Professional Development Opportunities
IEARN ( www.iearn.org) is a global education network of teachers and students
doing collaborative curricular projects using new technologies.In
Washington State, schools are participating in iEARN as a way to bring the
world to their classrooms and their classrooms to the world. The goal of
iEARN is for students to understand curricular content and concepts from
global perspectives and apply what they learn to make positive differences
in their world today and in the future.
IEARN (International Education and Resource Network) is approved as a
Clock Hour Agency. IEARN offers the following seven different online
courses. By taking any of these courses you can earn the Clock Hours for
teacher professional development.
Please go to:
http://iearn.org/professional/index_archive.html to read about each course description. Go to:
http://www.iearn.org/professional/online.html to read about how the courses work and prerequisites of for
course participants. You will also find the online registration link in
this page. The link for learning about Moving Voices is :
http://www.iearn.org/professional/movingvoices.html.
The next session of the courses will start in February 21, 2004. The
online registration will open in January. The space for each course is
limited and fills up quickly! Please sign up! Download flyer (PDF):
http://internationaledwa.org/news/flyers/iEARN_online_2005.pdf
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IDEA OF AMERICA ESSAY CONTEST
The National Endowment for the Humanities has announced its 2005 Idea
of America Essay Contest, open to high school juniors and 16- and
17-year-old homeschooled students. This year, student essayists are being
asked the following: "Describe totalitarianism by comparing the goals,
methods, and results of fascism and communism. How were the tenets of
these totalitarian movements different from the ideals that unite
Americans? How did the ideals embodied in the American founding prevail?"
The author of the winning essay will receive $5,000 in cash, and five
national finalists will receive $1,000 each. The deadline for entries is
April 15, 2005. For more information, go to
http://www.wethepeople.gov/essay.
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January 29, 2005 8:00 pm
Vela Luka Croatian Dance Ensemble featuring the Ruze
Dalmatinke Orchestra at Kirkland Performance
Center. For more information contact: Kirkland Performance Center (425)
828-0422 http://www.kpcenter.org.
February 1, 2005 6:00 pm The
Challenges Facing Sierra Leone (Discussion/Dinner at Pan African
Restaurant). Todd Jennings, Recently returned from UNICEF assignment in
Sierra Leone. See
World Affairs Council Calendar Item.
February 2, 2005 7:00 am Offshoring:
Another Side of the Story (Perspectives from Overseas)
Gary C. Hamilton, Professor of Sociology and the
Jackson School of International Studies, Ali Tarhouni, Senior Lecturer in
Business Economics at the UW Business School, Rajeev Agarwal, Founder and
CEO of MAQ Software at the Rainier Club. Although offshoring is not a new
phenomena, it has recently caused a flurry of debate about the loss of US
jobs and its effect on the US economy. While there are varying points of
view on the subject from inside the US, what are the effects of the
increased offshoring on the recipient nations? When jobs and income
arrive, what economic and social changes follow? See
World Affairs Council Calendar Item.
February 2, 2005
4-7 pm The Price of Freedom: Teaching About the
Experience of Japanese Americans in World War II (Educator Program at
the Seattle Buddhist Church) Funded by a Washington State Civil Liberties
Public Education grant to World Affairs Council Global Classroom. See
World Affairs Council Calendar Item.
February 3, 2005 5:30 pm Bosnian Photo
Exhibit at Café Paloma 93 Yesler Way, Seattle.
Seattle writer and human rights activist, Peter Lippman, announces: "I
will be displaying a few of the best of the photos from my last visit to
Bosnia, last spring. I think there will be something for everyone in that
exhibit, and my hope is to show not only the hurt that has been done unto
Bosnia, but also the beauty that still shines through." The opening of the
exhibit will take place during the "First Thursday" gallery walk.
February 4, 2005 7 pm Negotiating the
Gaze: Olga Boznanska as A Portraitist Walker Ames Room, Kane Hall,
University of Washington. Dr. Bozena Shallcross, Associate
Professor of Polish literature at the University of Chicago, will lecture
on the work of 19th century post-impressionist painter Olga Boznanska. The
first truly successful professional female painter, she forged a new basis
of artistic exploration by reinventing the gaze of her subjects.
February 7, 2005 7 to 9 pm Writers,
Fighters, Road Hunters: American Indians and Choices of Rebellion
Antioch campus, 2326 Sixth Ave., Seattle. Listen to Lummi author Keith
Egawa read selections from his recently completed novel Dispatch from the
Raft, and join a facilitated discussion of the definition of "progress."
For more information, contact Debra Alderman in the Center for Creative
Change at (206) 268-4906 or
dalderman@antiochsea.edu.
February 7, 2005 3:30-5:00 pm
Challenges for Japan's Foreign Diplomacy in 2005, by The Honorable Kazuo
Tanaka, Consul General of Japan. Simpson Center for the Humanities,
Communications Building, Room 202, University of Washington.
Prior to arriving in Seattle in late September 2004 to assume his new post
of Consulate-General of Japan in Seattle, Consul General Tanaka was the
Special Coordinator for the Minister's Secretariat in the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs in Tokyo. His expertise lies in economic cooperation and
Asian affairs as well as refugee issues, specifically involving the United
Nations. Consul General Tanaka is a graduate of Sophia University, Tokyo;
has studied Malay at the University of Malaya, Malaysia; and was a
lecturer at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.
http://depts.washington.edu/japan/events.shtml
February 8, 2005 6:30 to 9:30 pm
"Interfaith Connections"
Join in an interactive evening of dialog and learning designed to promote
understanding among members of a full spectrum of world spiritual and
religious traditions. Presented in cooperation with the Interfaith Council
of Washington. Antioch University Seattle is located at 2326 Sixth Ave. in
Seattle¹s Belltown neighborhood. These events are free and open to the
public.
February 10, 2005 Muslims in China Today
Part 2 of Beyond Islam: Understanding the Muslim World Teacher
professional development programs at the UW funded by a grant to the World
Affairs Council Global Classroom from the United States Institute of
Peace. Co-sponsored and co-presented by: World Affairs Council Global
Classroom, UW Jackson School of International Studies Outreach Centers,
and FIUTS. See
World Affairs Council Calendar Item.
February 11-13 2005 Seattle Balkan
Festival
A 3 Day Weekend of Dancing, Singing, Learning, Great Food & Great music.
Eagles Hall, 6205 Corson Ave S. in Seattle.
For registration information, see
Seattle Balkan Fest Website.
February 16, 2005 Fueling the Future:
Why China Matters (Teacher Program at Lakeside School)
Co-sponsored and co-presented by: Facing the Future: People and the
Planet, Lakeside School, Pacific Village Institute, World Affairs Council
Global Classroom, and YES! magazine. See
World Affairs Council Calendar Item.
February 16, 2005 7:00 pm Allah's
Torch: A Report from Behind the Scenes in Asia's War on Terror
(Lecture/Q&A) Kane Hall, University of Washington.
Tracy Dahlby, Former Managing Editor of Newsweek International.
Long before September 11, 2001, terrorism's global elite was already
zeroing in on Indonesia -- the world's most populous Islamic nation, and
its largest archipelago, where dense jungles and intricate, unpatrolled
coastlines conceal almost endless hiding places. Acclaimed journalist and
filmmaker Tracy Dahlby will report on his findings about this infrequently
reported landscape, both before and after 9/11. In so doing, Dahlby will
map out the chilling realities of what radical Islam has planned for the
West as the Western and radical Islamic worlds inevitably collide -- and
offer some surprising conclusions about how America's leaders -- and its
citizens -- can best defend, in his view, the United States against Asia's
new Osama bin Ladens. See
World Affairs Council Calendar Item.
February 17-20, 2005 The International
Studies School Association (ISSA) Fourth Annual Conference in Denver,
Colorado Denver Marriott South. It's not just for Social Studies and it's
not just for teachers. The 2005 conference is for teachers of all
disciplines -- the Sciences, Languages, Mathematics, Physical Education,
Humanities, and Business -- as well as school and district administrators.
For more information, contact Mark Montgomery
mmontgom@du.edu.
February 24, 2005 5:00 – 8:00 pm Welcome to the “New Europe”: Teacher
Workshop on European Union Enlargement and “Team Enlargement” classroom
outreach project
The EU Center of Seattle is offering two new programs to help area
teachers and students learn more about the process of EU enlargement and
its impact on European politics and society. The first is a special
February 24 workshop focusing on how EU enlargement has affected the lives
of people in the ten accession countries. The second program, called “Team
Enlargement,” will send a university lecturer and two European exchange
students to your classroom to give a colorful presentation on the “new”
Europe and hold a lively class discussion on the similarities and
differences between Europeans and Americans today. The program will also
provide the teacher will classroom materials on current events, such as
the introduction of the euro and the eastward expansion of the EU, will be
provided to the teacher. Teachers can participate in just one of the
programs or combine them. The “Team Enlargement” program is free and runs
through May. Details on the teacher conference are below. For more
information about either, contact the EU Center at
euc@u.washington.edu or 206-616-2415.
February 25, 2005 6:00 pm HIVPositive:
AIDS through a New Lens at the Museum of History and Industry.
Doras Chirwa, HIV/AIDS program specialist for CARE Zambia, Rep. Adam
Smith, US House of Representatives (D-Washington)
CARE, the World Affairs Council, and the African Chamber of Commerce of
the Pacific Northwest invite you to a reception and tour of
PhotoSensitive's HIVPositive, AIDS through a new lens, an innovative
exhibit that chronicles the individual acts of optimism and resistance
amid the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
See
World Affairs Council Calendar Item.
March 2, 2005 7 to 9 pm The Emerging
Movement to Reclaim the Media Antioch campus, 2326 Sixth Ave.,
Seattle.
Hear from Frances Korten, executive director of the Positive Futures
Network, publisher of YES! magazine. Korten worked at the Ford Foundation
for 20 years, where she funded programs on social justice and
environmental sustainability in Asia and the United States. For more
information, contact Debra Alderman in the Center for Creative Change at
(206) 268-4906 or
dalderman@antiochsea.edu.
March 4, 2005 9th World Languages Day
at UW
High School Students and Teachers: Learn about World Languages at
the University of Washington.
For more information, see
http://www.outreach.washington.edu/k12/wld.asp.
March 10, 2005
3:45-7:00 pm Lens on Contemporary China: New Photography and Video
The World Affairs Council, the Seattle Art Museum, and the East Asia
Resource Center invite you for an evening dedicated to discussing and
looking at the innovative photo and video art produced since the mid-1990s
in China. The exhibit Between Past and Future brings together works by
sixty Chinese artists focusing on the extraordinary cultural, political,
and social transformations that are currently reshaping China. The
innovative works of these artists, most never before seen outside China,
consider the impact of these changes on family life, individual identity,
human relationships, traditions, and the emergence of a new urban
landscape as they explore new approaches to the medium of photography. See
World Affairs Council Calendar Item.
March 12, 2005
9 am - 1 pm Youth Summit: Institutionalized Racism from a Global
Perspective (Youth leadership program at Bellevue Community College)
The purpose of the summit is to enrich civic dialogue about racism as it
has manifested itself in the U.S. and the world both past and present,
using the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II as a
starting place. Funded by a Washington State Civil Liberties Public
Education grant to World Affairs Council Global Classroom. Co-sponsored by
Bellevue Community College, Bellevue School District, and Seattle School
District Office of Equity and Race Relations.
See
World Affairs Council Calendar Item.
March 24, 2005 Islam and Politics in
Malaysia
Part 3 of Beyond Islam: Understanding the Muslim World Teacher
professional development programs at the UW funded by a grant to the World
Affairs Council Global Classroom from the United States Institute of
Peace. Co-sponsored and co-presented by: World Affairs Council Global
Classroom, UW Jackson School of International Studies Outreach Centers,
and FIUTS.
See
World Affairs Council Calendar Item.
March 29, 2005 State of the World's Women:
Beijing Conference 10 Years Later (Educator
program, student session, and keynote speaker at the Langston Hughes
Cultural Center in Seattle) Co-sponsored and co-presented by: Facing the
Future: People and the Planet, Pacific Village Institute, Population
Health Forum, Seattle Girls' School, World Affairs Council Global
Classroom, and YES! magazine.
See
World Affairs Council Calendar Item.
May 5, 2005 Islam, Asia, Modernity*
Part 4 of Beyond Islam: Understanding the Muslim World Teacher
professional development programs at the UW funded by a grant to the World
Affairs Council Global Classroom from the United States Institute of
Peace. Join Professor Huma Haq in exploring the complexities of the lives
of women in Pakistan. Co-sponsored and co-presented by: World Affairs
Council Global Classroom, UW Jackson School of International Studies
Outreach Centers, and FIUTS.
*This session will include the opening lecture of the Islam in Asia
Conference at UW May 5-8. See
World Affairs Council Calendar Item.
May 5-8, 2005 Islam in Asia Conference
at the University of Washington.
May 9-14, 2005 Seattle International
Children's Festival
at the Seattle Center. For more information, see
Performers at a Glance.
May 29 - June 3, 2005 NAFSA 57th Annual
Conference: Opening Minds to the Global Community
in Seattle, WA
The world's largest and most significant international education
gathering, attracts campus leaders, service providers, policy experts, and
world leaders alike. For more information, visit
NAFSA Website.
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