Garfield High School, Seattle  3:30 - 5:00 p.m.
400 23rd Ave, Seattle, WA 98122
Room 212  --  Kjell Rye's technology classroom at the south end of the building; you can enter from Alder Street, if you like.

Driving Directions:

Approaching from Washington State Highway 520
1: Take the Montlake Blvd. exit.
2: Turn onto Montlake Blvd headed Southbound
3: Proceed up the hill Montlake Blvd eventually turns into 23rd Ave Continue to Cherry
4: Garfield High School is at 23rd and Cherry
5: Main Office entrance is at North End of Building

Approaching from Interstate 90
1: Take the Rainier Avenue Exit Northbound
2: Proceed North to Jackson Street
3: Turn right and proceed up the hill eventually turning northbound (left) onto 23rd s Continue to Cherry
4: Garfield High School is at 23rd and Cherry
5: Main Office entrance is at North End of Building

Approaching from Interstate 5 Northbound
1: Take the Madison Street Exit
2: Take Madison Ave. Eastbound
3: At 23rd and -Turn right (Southbound)Continue to Cherry
4: Garfield High School is at 23rd and Cherry
5: Main Office entrance is at North End of Building

Approaching from Interstate 5 Southbound
1: Take the James Street Exit
2: Turn Left At James and proceed up the hill (East)
3: At 23rd and James -Turn right… Continue to Cherry
4: Garfield High School is at 23rd and Cherry
5: Main Office entrance is at North End of Building

Agenda

• Introductions/Context setting (especially if there are new people)
• Progress to Date
• Honing the Theme for Initial Publicity Efforts to Schools/Teachers
• Other Ideas
• Next Steps/Next Meetings

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In Attendance

Kim Rakow Bernier, Aysha Haq, David Woodward, Michele Anciaux Aoki, Michael Zuver, Kjell Rye, Masaru Kibukawa

Summary

The bulk of the meeting was spent on expectations of the Asia Society/Longview grant, and big-picture discussion of intent/theme of of the Summit.

One of the most important expectations and deliverables from the Asia Society/Longview grant is the need to engage and educate our state-level leaders to support international education.

We also reviewed the main obstacles to international education and the priorities that participants at last years’ summit said they wanted to see addressed.

Main Obstacles to International Education

• Inadequate Awareness and Understanding
• Inadequate Support
• Lack of Effective Pedagogy and Curriculum

Most important Issues to address:

• Integrating international education into all school subjects, starting in elementary school
• Increasing teacher knowledge and experience of global perspectives
• Providing state-level coordination and support for World languages
• Coordinating efforts in international ed with K-12 schools and higher ed

Another important part of our discussion included the need to work outside the box, look at international education as something that permeates all subject areas, community development and business. International education is not some mere add-on in formal or informal education.

SOME BRAINSTORMING IDEAS FOR THEME

We need your input on this year’s theme! (Last year’s theme was "Teaching and Learning in a Global Community.") Here are some ideas we came up with:

In another way
Washington Out in the World
Tools – giving tools
Washington is part of the World
Out of the box, into the bag
Out of Washington
Washington in the World
Washington Out in the World
Washington a Passageway to the World
More linguistic diversity then any other state (or almost any other state)
Global State
Permeability (mesh bag)
In and Out
Box to Bag to Net
Meeting the World in Washington State
Meeting the World in the Pacific Northwest

RECENT PROGRESS AND PLANS TO DATE:

• Candidates' Forum: strategizing how to engage and educate state leaders in a dialogue on initiatives for international education – Nancy Bacon and Masaru Kibukawa, chairs of a committee
• Resource Fair – in discussion with World Affairs Council about doing a Resource Fair for teachers again this year – Michele
• Inclusion - working to involve special needs community and refugee/immigrant community – Loretta
• Outreach - contacting Puget Sound area high schools about the coalition – Michael
• UW - working with UW professors Walter Parker and Anand Yang about facilitating seminars and dialogues – Michele and Aysha
• World Language Survey - presentation of results of OSPI World Language Survey – Michele, Caleb
• Students - discussion with students of various backgrounds to engage in some sort of dialogue; meeting planned with OneWorld Now! students – Michael and Aysha
• Technology & Exchanges - discussion with Kristi Rennenbohm Franz of iEARN about setting up a hands-on demonstration of use of technology in the classroom – Michele and Aysha
• Business & Trade - meeting scheduled with Bill Stafford and Lili Hein of the Trade Development Alliance to discuss concept of business fair “Washington in the World.” – Michele, David, Aysha

TIMELINE:

Next two Summit planning meetings:

• Wednesday May 26 at 3:30-5:00 at Garfield High School, Room 212 and
• Thursday June 10 at 3:30 (location tba), just before the next general coalition meeting

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