States Institute on International Education in the Schools

Washington State Team Meeting
Uwajimaya Conference Room 
January 15  2:30 - 5:00 p.m.

Agenda Items:

• Review of D.C. Institute
• Brainstorm of possible directions for the group
• Discussion of who to bring on board to further dialogue on International Education in Washington State
• Future meeting dates/places
• Other: Grants available

Meeting Notes:

1. Review of D.C. Institute: Materials received were shared; brief overviews of experiences were discussed.
    
2. The following activities for the team were planned:

• Michele and Will will draft a short team report using the WSAME article published by Cynthia as a starting point.  It will include a definition of “international education.” The draft will be distributed to the rest of the team for review/editing by the end of January. The final report will be given to Joan who will distribute it to Governor Locke and Superintendent Bergeson at OSPI.
• Michele will look into the possibility of developing a free website on the international education in the schools initiative for Washington State through SCN.
• A meeting to generate a wide-body of potential supporters and resources for the international education initiative in Washington will be held on March 19t from 3-5 p.m. The place will be determined later.
• Cynthia will draft a letter of invitation (with RSVP information) and send it out by mid-February to the organizations and individuals identified as potential supporters and resources to the state’s international education movement.
• A planning meeting for the Washington State Team to discuss strategies and agenda items for the March invitational meeting will be held on February 26 from 2:30 - 5:00 p.m. at the Uwajimaya Conference Room.

3. An initial list of organizations and individuals to invite to the meeting in March was generated. Other organizations and individuals may also be submitted as they are identified. Each team member assigned to the organization/individual will provide Cynthia with the complete names, titles and addresses by February 1st. The list included:

• Washington State Council for the S.S. /Jim Meadows (Will)
• WA. Education Association/Frieda Takamura (Cynthia)
• Business Contacts (Toshi)
• U.W. Outreach Centers (Will)
• World Affairs Council/Nancy Bacon (Will)
• Community colleges with international programs (Cynthia)
• PLU (Cynthia)
• Seattle U. (Will)
• U.W. Language and Education Depts/ Paul Aoki & Stephen Kerr (Michele)
• SPU (Joan)
• Evergreen  (Joan)
• City U./Marge Chow (Joan)
• Bellevue International School/Dion Yahoody (Will)
• Bellevue Language Immersion School @ Sunset (Will)
• Stanford International School/Karen Kodama (Michele)
• Tukwila International School/Karen Adair (Cynthia)
• Lake WA. International Community School (Michele)
• Coe Elementary (Joan)
• Washington Middle School/Marcy Shadow (Cynthia)
• Peace Corps-FIUTS/Anita Croft (Cynthia)
• Whittier M.S. (Michele)
• WA. State Trade Development Alliance (Joan)
• WA. State Community/Economic Development/Larry Williams (Joan)
• Fulbright Assoc. (Michele)
• China Relations Council/Joe Borich (Cynthia)
• Japan America Society of WA./Jeff Demetrescu (Cynthia)
• Alliance for Education international education contact list (Michele)
• State Board (Michele)
• Washington Foreign Language Teachers/Leslie Birkland (Cynthia)
• Urban League/James Kelly (Joan)
• David Tang (Joan)

Any other contact information for organizations and individuals that may surface will be sent to Cynthia so she can send them an invitational letter.

4. A list of possible sites to hold the March meeting from 3-5 p.m. was generated.  They will be contacted to see if they are available and at what cost.  This information will be provided to Cynthia no later than February 1st.  She will inform the team of what is available and a decision as to site will be made.

• U.W. Ethnic Cultural Center (Cynthia)
• Seattle Central Community College (Cynthia)
• Antioch University (Cynthia)
• John Stanford School (Michele)
• Hamilton M.S. (Michele)
• OSPI Burien Site (Joan)
• Safeco (Joan or Michele?)
• Wild Ginger (Joan)
• Shin Wah (Toshi)
• U.W. (Michele)
• Chinese Cultural Center (Cynthia)

Any other ideas that surface among team members can be investigated and reported to Cynthia.

5. The meeting to discuss the agenda and approach for the March 19th meeting includes:

• Present the information generated at the WA. D.C. Institute
• Develop a Washington State Checklist on international education
• Create a state survey on international education
• Discuss the possibility of holding an international education summit
• Funding/grants available
• Other items TBD

6. Two possible grants available were discussed. Ideas for grants needs included the holding of a summit on international education later in the year.  One grant was through the Asia Society; Michele will look into this. The other was through the Longview Foundation; Cynthia will work on this.

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