Members of the Washington State Coalition for International Education Steering Committee post items of interest to this blog.
Could the summer learning loss crisis become an opportunity for Seattle-area students? . . . If you had the power to design a summer enrichment program with a global education theme, what would you dream up? Send us your ideas!
Laura Adriance from the World Affairs Council just alerted the Coalition Steering Committee to the Global Education Conference coming in November. http://www.globaleducationconference.com/index.html The 2010 Global Education Conference will be held November 15 - 19, 2010, online and free. Sessions will be held in multiple time zones and multiple languages over the five days. This looks like something that Coalition member organizations might want to get involved with. I've asked Laura to post some…
The new WordPress version of our website is launched, but we have not yet loaded up new "globally themed" photos. They're coming soon!
When we launched the website http://internationaledwa.org in spring 2003, we gave birth to a public face for an entity that became known as the Washington State Coalition for International Education or the "Coalition" for short. Over the past seven years, a variety of individuals and organizations have paid key roles in advancing the mission of the Coalition -- to prepare all students for today's interconnected world -- while developing themselves into leaders in international education.