Members of the Washington State Coalition for International Education Steering Committee post items of interest to this blog.
We are excited to announce the return of the Washington State Coalition for International Education! Please join us on Tuesday, November 12, 2013 at 7:00-8:30 pm for a conversation with Noah Zeichner, Chief Sealth International High School teacher and recipient of the 2013-14 World Educator Award. He will share highlights of his recent trip to Singapore with the Asia Society’s Global Cities Education Network and the Center for Teaching Quality.
Fellow Global Education Enthusiasts, I am excited about two new finds! Check out these links and share your thoughts here! 1) “Connect All Schools” http://www.connectallschools.org/home This website is just what it sounds like. Citing a line from President Obama's June 2009 speech in Cairo, the “About” section of the site explains the goal of connecting all schools in the US with schools in other countries by 2016. The website encourages educators to: 1.…
American Councils for International Education is pleased to announce the 2011 Intensive Summer Language Institutes Program taking place next summer in Alexandria, Egypt and Changchun, China. The Intensive Summer Language Institutes provide fully funded fellowships for U.S. classroom teachers to spend six weeks overseas studying intermediate and advanced-level Arabic and Mandarin Chinese. The program targets current K-12 teachers and community college instructors of Arabic and Chinese, as well as students enrolled in education…
By signing the Presidential Policy Directive on Global Development, President Obama has set forth the first policy of its kind by a U.S. administration recognizing that “development is vital to U.S. national security and is a strategic, economic, and moral imperative for the United States.” For decades, the U.S. government has made global development an imperative, with private and public funders focusing, understandably, on everything from micro-lending programs to bringing together cross-sector partnerships…
“What should I wear if I do not have a long, loose dress? haha… that may sound trivial but I want to be respectful. Do you get my question?” Now I generally do not wear dresses, but I did understand all to well her question she texted to me this morning. Molly, a 17 year old student and leader in Mercy Corps’ Global Citizen Corps, is getting ready to lead more than a…