Wednesday October 6, 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: Kristi Rennebohm Franz, Loretta Ferguson, Mac McDonald, Erin Cooke, Kathie Kwilinski, Kim Rakow Bernier, Masaru Kibukawa, Shirley Henderson, Aysha Haq

Summary:

We revisited the focus and goals for the Summit, reviewed the outreach we have done for the Summit, and worked out details of our room layout, etc.

Some thoughts from those present about what would make them feel like the Summit was a success:
- Commitment on part of government to provide leadership
- Participants will walk away inspired and with a real sense of where to start
- Seeing teachers, students, legislators, businesses excited for different reasons, yet with a similar sense of importance of international education and what we might be able to do in Washington State
- OSPI in greater leadership role
- Engaged discussion between Higher Ed and K-12

Updates on Outreach:

Government
- Team visited Olympia and distributed invitation letters & flyer.
- Followed up with emails to all legislators, including the various House & Senate Ed and Trade committees.
- Strategized with OSPI – Caleb and Mardel – and encouraged them to continue the outreach to Olympia area educators
- Individuals encouraged to invite legislatures that represent them.

Business
- David Fagerlie of Rotary #4’s Education Committee is planning to attend the Summit.
- David Woodward of A.C.E. will host the reception and is planning to extend invite to Bill Stafford of the Trade Development Alliance and World Trade Center spokesperson to give remarks.
- Trade Development disseminated the information through their newsletter.
- Tacoma’s World Trade Center is going to participate.

Educators (K-12 and Higher Education)
- 1900 flyers distributed along with World Affairs Council Global Classroom newsletters
- Email sent to various NAFSA listservs
- Emails being sent to Olympia & other area educators
- (1000?) Flyers distributed at various local events, including WAFLT conference, WSAME, Social Studies conference, World Affairs Council trainings, etc. etc.

Non-profits
- Coaliton listservs.

Please spread the word in your sphere of influence…

Decisions:
- Determined layout of various sessions, lunch, and receptions. The largest room will be devoted to morning session, lunch, open work session and breakouts devoted to Advocacy.
- Increase length of breakout sessions to be 55 minutes, with 10-minute breaks in between and a 15-minute large group closure.

Only Some of the Action Items Talked About:
- Contact youth to see if there is anyone among them that would like to perform during the intro
- Contact Mayor’s office and Sister Cities
- Arrange for Coalition table at NAFSA conference and at the Summit & Reception for the Summit
- Talk to Michele about WCIT and outreach
- Ask Greg Tuke to play banjo during the morning registration period. Consider using Shirley to play the classical guitar during breaks
- Invite Renton Sister Cities – Loretta
- Develop a “talking points” handout/card that everyone can use to be on the same page when talking to legislatures
- Contact ESD’s – Kristi
- Get details of space set-up to Red Lion – Kathie
- Get details of reception/food to Red Lion – Kathie
- Follow up with all about the AV needs for their sessions & provide to Kathie –Aysha
- Find out additional info for Resource Fair, including number of tables - Kathie

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