E-Newsletter - November 6, 2003
from the Washington State Coalition for International
Education
In the News…
Arts and
Foreign Language at Risk of Becoming "Lost Curriculum" Says National
Association of State Boards of Education
"In leaving no child behind, we must be careful that we don't leave half of
the child's education behind." (Press Release from National Association of
School Boards of Education October 21, 2003)
Elementary Schools Turn to Video-Based Foreign Language Instruction
Elementary schools desiring to offer foreign languages often lack the money
to add teachers, so they turn to technology. (ASCD Curriculum Technology
Quarterly Fall 2003)
In the Shadow of My Country: Art Website Launched (English) One Japanese
American family's memories of living behind barbed wire during World War II
are captured in the new bilingual multimedia website. (Press Release from
DENSHŌ: THE JAPANESE AMERICAN LEGACY PROJECT September, 2003)
Upcoming Events
November 5 - 9th, 2003 NAME
Conference at Sheraton Hotel, Seattle
The National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME) is hosting its
Thirteenth Annual Conference,
From Rhetoric to Reality: Student Achievement in Multicultural Societies
For more information, access the NAME website:
http://www.nameorg.org, or contact Jill
Moss Greenberg at 202.628.6263 or
jill@nameorg.org.
November 13, 2003 7:30-9:00 am
International Business Breakfast 2003 at W Hotel, Seattle
Please join us for the fourth annual International Business breakfast
supporting international education in the Seattle Public Schools. John
Stanford International School and Hamilton International Middle School
represent the initial implementation of former Seattle Public School
Superintendent John Stanford’s dream to create a world-class, international
public school system that prepares students to achieve and thrive in our
increasingly global community. For more information, see
http://www.seattleschools.org/schools/hamilton/breakfast/index_archive.htm.
November 20, 2003 Reception at 6:00
pm, Dinner at 7:00 pm at Westin Hotel, Seattle
World Citizen Awards Banquet to honor:
2003 World Citizen - Paul Isaki, Governor’s Special Assistant for Business
2003 World Educator: Patricia Burleson, Island View Elementary School,
Anacortes
To register, please visit our calendar at
http://www.world-affairs.org, or
call the World Affairs Council at 206.441.5910.
January 28, 2004 10:30 -12:30 Amy
Gutmann lecture at UW Kane Hall.
Unity and Diversity in Democratic Multicultural Education:
Creative and Destructive Tensions
Please RSVP to centerme@u.washington.edu
February 27, 2004 7th World Languages
Day at UW
High School Students and Teachers:
- Learn about World Languages at the University of Washington
- Visit classes in many different languages.
- Sample a variety of cultures.
- Attend presentations and activities on subjects ranging from Hispanic
Dance to German Soccer, from Swahili to Indonesian Language and Culture,
from The Ancient Roman Town to Bulgarian Culture, from German Music Videos
to Chinese Tones, from the Latin poet Ovid and Latin Mythology to Animals in
Korean Myth and Folklore.
- Learn about careers using world languages.
- Tour the UW campus and visit the Language Learning Center
For more information, see
http://www.outreach.washington.edu/k12/wld.asp.
From the News Bulletin
Exciting New Student-Centered Trade Education Curriculum Available
Want to learn more about trade and its impacts on our economy? About the
WTO? About emerging economies and trade? About the steel tariffs,
agricultural subsidies? And how all this affects the United States? The
world?
If you are like most educators, you learned little about this important
topic in school. Now, you want to know more, but don't know where to start.
We can help. Our curriculum, consisting of two 14-minute videos and 24
lesson ideas, is just right for middle and high school students in a variety
of subject areas. Plus, we incorporate the Essential Academic Learning
Requirements (EALRs) in our curriculum materials.
The entire packet of materials, called "Trade Is", is available for FREE
by contacting Sally Mackle, at the International Trade Education Foundation
(ITEF), 206-443-3826. Sally will come to your school and present a free
in-service to interested teachers and aides, providing all the background
material you need to talk about trade in your classes. The "Trade Is"
educational materials are then available for anyone in your school to use.
Wanted: Committed Teacher and Students to Study Trade Here and Abroad
The International Trade Education Foundation is seeking an energetic and
interested teacher of juniors in high school to work with this next semester
(January, 2004). We will bring a Trade Curriculum to your classroom, and
work with you to implement it one day a week over the semester. Focusing on
Japan and China we will study both countries in depth, looking at their
economies, their trade statistics, their businesses, balance of payments,
growth, and their economic and political policies that focus on trade. We
will make use of guest speakers and field trips, (examples include a trip to
the Port of Seattle, local business speakers, and speakers from Japan and
China companies). For more information and if you have questions, please
contact Sally Mackle, 206-443-3826.
Submit News
If you have links to interesting news articles about International
Education or events that you'd like to publicize, send the information to
action@internationaledwa.org.
We'll add them to the News page on the website: http://internationaledwa.org/news.htm and send it out with this periodic
e-newsletter.
Please feel free to forward this E-Newsletter to colleagues interested in
International Education. To subscribe to the listserv, they can complete the
Get Involved Form: http://internationaledwa.org/forms/get_involved.htm.
____________________________________
Washington State Coalition for International Education
http://internationaledwa.org
For questions or to unsubscribe, contact
action@internationaledwa.org