Dear Reader,
You are looking at a new format for the Washington
State Coalition for International Education
e-newsletter. We will endeavor to provide a forum to
inform, inspire, celebrate, and share resources so that
we may all better fulfill our goal to prepare our
students for the world we live in. Please read on!
If you have questions or suggestions, contact
our editor, Aysha Haq at intledwa@gmail.com. | |
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Coalition Receives State
Innovations Grant for 2007!
In
Spring 2007, the Coalition was awarded its fifth State
Innovations Grant from Longview Foundation and the
National Coalition for International
Education.
In the previous four years, also with
the help of State Innovations grants, the Coalition has
successfully built broad, grassroots support for
international education in Washington State and
increased the flow of information and resource-sharing
through its website and email lists. We have come a
long way and our work is worth celebrating! To learn
more about the various projects the grant will help fund
this year, visit About the Coalition > Projects.
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Model for Global Perspectives in
Education  Karen Kodama,
principal of the award-winning John Stanford
International School in Seattle, will be leaving the
school this spring to work with the Seattle
School District to start another eight international
schools. As part of our State Innovations grant, the
Coalition will sponsor "best practices" workshops and
share globalized curriculum in Math & Science. We
will also help document the approaches to integrating
global perspectives into school programs, as developed
at John Stanford and Hamilton International Middle
School.
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Surveying the Languages Being
Taught in Washington State - The MELL
Project
The University of
Washington's Jackson School of International Studies
received funding to launch a four-year project entitled
"Mapping and Enhancing Language Learning" (MELL) in
Washington state. The online survey, produced through a
collaborative effort, represents a first step to help us
get a better picture of what languages students are
currently learning in our K-12 schools and community
language programs. This project builds on the World
Languages Survey that was part of the Coalition's 2004
State Innovations Grant and it has received additional
funding from our 2007 State Innovations grant. You can
view current survey results at UW>LLC>MELL.
Alert! Please
encourage your elementary or middle school to complete
the MELL Online Survey. It takes less than
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Chinese Language Capacity
Expanding Quickly
Our "Expanding
Chinese Language Capacity" Initiative is growing rapidly
and has attracted broad participation from a vibrant
Chinese American community, business leaders, and of
course, Coalition members. We have a very active Chinese
Language Core Team spearheading this initiative. To
learn more, visit Expanding Chinese Language Capacity
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Capitol Forum on America's
Future  Capitol Forum on America's
Future is an innovative program from Brown University
that provides students first hand experience in
deliberation and understanding America's role in the
world. This year's State Innovations Grant will help
support twenty teachers with teams of five students to
participate in the 2008 Capitol Forum in Olympia in
March, 2008.To learn more, visit Capitol
Forum. |
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Calendar Events &
Announcements For full
details, visit the Calendar and Annoucements pages on our
website.
May 25-28
Northwest Folklife Festival at the Seattle Center
June 1-2
Symposium in Modern Chinese Painting, Seattle
June 3 Alliance
Française Gala & Auction, Seattle
June 13 "Different
Pathways" to Global Education, Tacoma
July 7-16 Peruvian
Amazon Workshop for Educators
July 8-12 Bring the
World into Your Classroom, Enumclaw
July 16-18 & 19-20
Food, Farming, Culture, & Education: Summer
Institute, Bainbridge Island
July 29-August 3,
Summer Institute for K-12 Educators by the East Asia
Resource Center, Seattle
Additional
Announcements
-Nominate a Teacher for the
2007-08 World Educator Award
-Facing the Future
Offers Global Issues Workshops for Teachers
-ACE
Offers Summer Language Camps
-Summer Chinese Camp
with Xiao Yu Jackson
-AFS Looking for Families to
Host Visiting Teachers
-2007 Goldman Sachs Foundation
Youth Prize
-Web Japan, a Premier Online Source of
Information on Japan
-The U.S. in Iraq: Interactive
Lesson Plan
-Center for Advanced Research on Language
Acquisition Summer Institutes 2007
-"Society,
Equality, & Change" Study Trip
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The Washington State Coalition for
International Education was formed in 2003 out of a
focus group on international education. Today we are a
volunteer run, grassroots affiliation of over 300
individuals and organizations committed to preparing all
students for today's interconnected world. Contact us. | | |
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WashingtonTeacher of the Year Goes
National!
Andrea Peterson, a music teacher in
Granite Falls, WA, was named National Teacher of the Year
this spring. Ms. Peterson received an International
Ed Scholarship funded by our State Innovations grant. She used
the scholarship money to purchase African drums for her
school. Congratulations to Andrea!
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Starter Kits Available Online
Download starter kits to help you imagine and
implement an online exchange integrating a curricular topic
with one of the International Education and Resource Network
( www.iearn.org) collaborative projects.
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