Hamilton International Middle School, Seattle  3:30 - 4:30 p.m.

In attendance:
Cheryl Allendoerfer, UW Educational Outreach
Michele Anciaux Aoki, P-20 International Ed Summit Project Director (recorder)
Sue Ranney, Hamilton International Middle School, Seattle S.D.
Sean Young, Hyogo Cultural Center

Agenda

1. What do we think of proposed theme: "Learning in an Interdependent World"?
2. Who do we need to invite and how can we reach them?
3. How can we make the event of interest to and accessible to teachers?
   (For example, would offering a bonus session 3:30-5:00 be helpful?)
4. What about students? What role(s) should/could they play?

Progress this past week

• Met with Mary Bernson from East Asia Center at the UW Jackson School of International Studies to talk about ways to involve the Jackson School and the Outreach programs (including Title VI programs) in the Summit.
• Identified a graphic artist to design the flyer (Richard Thornton of local Fulbright chapter).
• Met with Dee Dickinson and Scott Wyatt to explore themes for the Summit and ways to incorporate concepts of human dignity and dealing with the paradox of diversity and commonality.

Summary

1. Theme
   We discussed the proposed theme from the meeting with Dee and Scott:
   "Learning in an Interdependent World."
   People liked the idea of avoiding terminology in the theme that had certain "meanings" with the public or educators. For example, people often take "multicultural education" to mean learning about the children of different races and ethnic backgrounds who are in our schools, while "international education" suggests to some elite education, or education for the privileged. And the word "global" makes some people think of the World Trade Organization. We want to get past those limited views. We're also very conscious that while celebrating our differences, we don't want to lose site of what we, as human beings, share in common, and, noteworthy right now: our interdependence in this world.
    
   The choice of "learning" (rather than education or some other word) also suggests the idea of life-long learning, both in school and out, and not just K-12 or even higher ed. We look forward to additional dialogue on this topic.
    
   (Note: We would expect to use the terms international education and multicultural education in the description of the events of the day.)
    
    
2. Audiences
   We talked about including strands of some sort (possibly breakouts) to appeal to some specific audiences. A few ideas:

• Principals' Roundtable -- Chance for principals interested in international (or global) education to meet and talk about what they're doing, what they need, what they'd like to do. For starters, we'd like to involve the principals from John Stanford and Hamilton, Ingraham High School, and the Bellevue International School, as well as Cleveland High School in Seattle, which is undergoing small schools transformation and will have a Global Studies program next year.
   
• WSU, CWU, and other colleges -- We want to include other institutions of higher education.
   
• Non-profits -- Sean, representing a non-profit (Hyogo Cultural Center) commented that their biggest challenge is letting people know about the services they offer. How could the Summit help non-profits get the word out?
   
• Business -- Educators and parents want to know what business is doing in the international arena and how that will impact what students need to know and be able to do, esp. for things that take a longer time to develop, such as language skills. Sean agreed to set up a meeting with Michele at the Hyogo Cultural Center in the next few weeks with some of their business partners to talk about involvement in the Summit.
   
• Contacts from World Affairs Council -- Sean suggested working through them to reach a broader audience for the Summit.

3. Teacher Interest
   We agreed that teachers usually want to get something concrete to use in their classrooms right away. The kind of presentation that Alice Finch has proposed for the OSPI Summer Institutes would be a great example. We also thought it would be good to connect teachers up to all the resources from the non-profits (see above). Proposal is to have a Resource Fair from 3:30-5:00 pm so that teachers in the general Seattle area could come by, if they wanted to, for some "mini" sessions ("make and take") with other teachers and non-profits. Hopefully, we could also collect all the contact info from the non-profits (and other educational organizations that participated) and make that available on the web for teachers who were not able to attend.
    
   We have picked up information for clock hours from SPU and clock hours or credits from the UW Educational Outreach. We'll be following up to see if there would be an interest in actually offering credit hours (which would require some meeting times before and/or after the actual Summit day).
    
4. Student Involvement
   We all agreed that students could play a powerful role as active participants, contributing their ideas about how to best teach them about the world and other cultures. We suggested holding some focus groups this spring at some of the area high schools that have an international theme in order to find out how students might like to be involved.
    

Next Meeting

• Hamilton Middle School in Seattle (Wallingford, 2 miles west of I-5 at 45th St. exit)
• April 23, 2003 3:30-4:30 pm
• Come if you can, or feel free to contribute by email, as well