Wednesday August 11, 2004 at 3:00 - 5:00 pm

Location: Asian Resource Center
1025 S. King St. (12th and S. King Street in the International District)
(The Asian Resource Center is slightly off the street behind a chain link fence. There should be parking in the lot in front of the resource center or nearby street parking.)

Present:

Becky Alhadeff, Nabila Aliyee, Heather Hunter, Suzanne Hu, Dariene Castro, Kathleen Nguyen (OneWorld Now! youth), Kesha Lee (OneWorld Now! staff), Kristi Rennebohm Franz, Loretta Ferguson, Greg Tuke, David Woodward, Michele Anciaux Aoki, Aysha Haq

Summary

The bulk of this meeting was spent learning about youth experiences with international education and brainstorming how youth could be an integral part of the Summit. In addition we once again touched upon the question of the central focus of this summit and the audience. We also discussed some logistical details. See the draft Schedule  (Word doc)

Possible Ways Youth May Be Involved In The Summit:

Provide introductions/remarks at key points throughout the day

Facilitate dialogue at tables during large group morning sessions

Serve as hosts for breakout sessions

• introduce facilitators
• capture the key points of sessions through notes
• we could encourage each session leader to follow a similar format, where participants are given 5 steps they could take next
• be on a panel

Report to large group where

Convene Open Space sessions

Present during the reception

Outreach/extend invitations to their peers and teachers

Summit Focus and Audience:

Focus:

Networking, sharing ideas and resources, and building a commitment to advocacy for int. education by beginning to take action. Integral to this focus is expanding the coalitions’ constituency and working toward a policy for international education that addresses barriers to int. education for all students.

Anticipated Audience:

• Teachers, educators (including administrators) from P-20 who feel that international education is important, both those that are wondering what they can do next and those who are ready to take action.  This will also include members of NAFSA.
• Youth that have access to international education and their peers of like-mind. 
• Business leaders who have been contacted and recognize the importance of int. ed. to their work. 
• Government leaders and policy makers: OSPI, some state legislators, possible gubernatorial candidates. 
• Non-profits and community leaders curious about the next step and/or ready to take action.
• Some entirely new to the coalition, but curious about what is going on.

Decisions (in the past week):

• Hold morning session, breakout session, luncheon, resource fair and reception in one room, with parts of the room designated appropriately for various portions of the Summit. Although holding it all in one room poses some challenges, it will allow for greater interaction among the participants to interact throughout the day and ideally create a better sense of a working group. We will work around the challenges it may pose for some breakout sessions.
• Slide the schedule slightly forward, to change the reception in the evening, co-sponsored by NAFSA, to go from 5:00-7:00, so that Summit participants can have opportunity to interact with NAFSA pre-conference participants, who will be arriving near 6:00.
• Work with OneWorld Now! staff and youth to fully integrate youth participation in the Summit.
• Create specific email invites for business community and various other constituencies to be distributed by various business and community listservs.

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