8:00 – 10:45 Breakfast Plenary Session

Leaving No Child Left Behind in the Global Era

Facilitator:

• Vivien Stewart, Senior Fellow, Asia Society
  

Panelists:

• Deb Delisle, State Superintendent, State of Ohio
• Tom Boasberg, Superintendent of Denver Public Schools
• Mel Riddle, Associate Director for High School Services, National Association of Secondary School Principals and Member of Adolescent Literacy Task Force
• Philip Daro, Co-Director, Tools for Change, University of California, Berkeley and Co-Chair of Mathematics Team for Core Common Standards

The Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) is the primary national legislation governing K-12 educational policy in the United States for the last 16 years and is now up for reauthorization. This session will focus on what it will really take to bring a world-class education to all students and will examine the role and contribution that global education can make to that goal. It will also provide a forum for our conference members to share feedback about ESEA and how global education fits within and supports the overarching educational goals in the United States.

11:00 – 12:00 Concurrent Sessions I

Going from Policy to Practice in Global Education
As a follow-up to the panel discussion, join this session to continue the dialogue on how to conceptualize and influence the elements that will be addressed in the reauthorization of ESEA whether at the state, district, or school level. Explore ways that global competence and global learning might find a significant place in the new legislation so that all students graduate from American high schools as college and career ready as well as globally competent.

Defining and Teaching for Global Competence
Interact with a primary author of the new white paper on global competence. Inspired by the work of the Asia Society and the Council of Chief State School Officers, preview and offer feedback to inform this important new work that will be released in the Fall of 2010.

Presenter: Dr. Veronica Boix-Mansilla, Principal Investigator, Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Growing Up Global: Parent Advocacy

In this session, the author and parent advocate will share her experiences and strategies for raising globally competent students and creating a movement where parents understand and demand this kind of learning for their children. The sale of her book and a brief book signing will follow this session.

Presenter: Homa Sabet Tavangar, author of Growing Up Global: Raising Children to be at Home in the World

Real World Math: Engaging Students Through Global Issues

Engage math students with meaningful global content and explore the statistics behind the headlines. Explore how you can use real world data to teach the foundational concepts of algebra and geometry while engaging students in problem solving exercises similar to what they will encounter in their professional and personal lives. Participate in research-based lessons that connect topics like microcredit, climate change, conservation, and sustainable design to mathematical concepts and operations. Participants will receive a free teacher’s guide.

Examine Science through a Global Lens

Science offers rich disciplinary knowledge that helps students understand the world. It also offers multiple opportunities for interdisciplinary learning across important global issues. This session will present a framework for bringing global learning into the sciences, and showcases ideas and strategies for making science more prominent in interdisciplinary learning.

Beyond the Canon- Reading the World in Schools

Immerse yourself in a session dedicated to international literature and global themes that are essential to understanding as global learners and leaders. This session will weave the new Core Common Standards with rich globally focused learning and will share learning tasks and resources for bringing this into all classrooms at the secondary level.

It’s Social Studies, So It’s Global, Right?

What are the elements of global perspective  that add value to the social studies and history curriculum and allow students to make connections across place and time? This session will offer a framework for analyzing your existing social studies curriculum and offer resources to infuse a greater global focus into the learning offerings for students.

World Languages that Build Global Competence

World language programs are prime opportunities to build not only linguistic skills but to develop deep cultural understanding as well. In this session, the presenters will share program design considerations as well as resources for language and cultural learning. New programs, such as the Confucius Classrooms initiative, will be shared and analyzed as models and strategies for establishing world languages as a primary element in building global competence.

The Arts as a Lens on the World

This session will offer an opportunity to see the arts as a central force in developing global competence and will highlight resources and materials to enrich both your arts programs as well as the interdisciplinary linkages around global themes that the arts make possible. A specific example will be shared by World Savvy as they profile their Global Youth Media and Arts program.

Elementary Programs that Teach the World

What makes and elementary school global  and how can global learning foster deeper content and skill development at a school? Join the primary author of the new publication, Ready for the World: Preparing Elementary Students for the Global Age, as well as a panel of globally-focused elementary school leaders for this engaging session on bringing the world into the elementary level.

12:15 – 1:15 Lunch Plenary Session

How Does the World Measure What Kids Know?

Speaker:

• Carol Campbell, Executive Director, SCOPE Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education, Stanford University

How do high-performing nations around the world measure student learning and benchmark themselves against world-class educational standards? Examine specific examples from across the globe of assessments and assessment systems that are producing high levels of rigor and relevance and reflect on the implications for the United States as it grapples to update its own educational policies and initiatives.

1:30 – 3:45 Mini Plenary

A New Essential Curriculum for a New Time
meets during both Concurrent Sessions II and III

Presenter:

• Heidi Hayes Jacobs, Educator and Author, Curriculum 21: Essential Eduction for a Changing World
  

In her new book, Curriculum 21: Essential Education for a Changing World, Heidi Hayes Jacobs offers a plan to provoke, invigorate, and replace as essential strategies in crafting the kind of education that all students need and deserve in the global 21^st century. As an educator who has led curriculum transformation for decades, Jacobs has set her sights on the global era as the target for the next generation of schooling in order to prepare our students for success in the changing world of today and tomorrow.

*Please note that this session requires advanced registration; you must have a ticket to attend.

1:30 – 2:30 Concurrent Sessions II

Future of Performance Assessments and the States’ Role

As a follow-up to the lunch keynote, Carol Campbell will conduct a facilitated dialogue around the opportunities and challenges of performance assessment at the state and district level.

Developing Globally Focused Performance Assessment Tasks

Performance assessment can be a driver of change in classroom practice which encourages greater student engagement and choice in the learning opportunities. This session will share a template for the creation of performance assessment tasks and will provide examples of globally focused tasks and review the related learning units that link global content and state-mandated skills and content.

Building 21^st Century Skills through Online Global Primary Sources

When appropriately selected, primary sources can help bring academic course content to life by connecting students with real people and cultures throughout the world and by presenting particular perspectives or points of view. This workshop will demonstrate how thoughtful use of primary sources can promote development and mastery of 21^st century skills – including global awareness, critical thinking, collaboration, and media literacy – while engaging students as historians and ethnographers. Participants will work with select primary sources, examine ways to integrate them into the curriculum and discuss primary source selection to maximize student learning.

Presenter: Julia de la Torre, Primary Source

Fostering Elementary Students’ Engagement with the World and Entrepreneurship

This session will highlight a successful program that helps younger students (elementary and middle school) delve into global learning and reach beyond their school to connect their learning to the world. The One Hen program, now used in 133 countries and all 50 states, will share how combining the power of story and interactive media brings lessons from micro-entrepreneurs in developing countries to K-8 classrooms in the United States to inspire entrepreneurship and mutual support of others.

Presenter: Katie Smith Milway, One Hen, Inc.

Making Global Connections through Interactive WebQuests

This session will examine a series of WebQuests based on Peace Corps Volunteers’ firsthand global service experiences. These multimedia resources integrate Volunteer voices through slide shows, videos and podcasts while engaging students in problem solving around critical global issues such as food security, disease eradication, and clean water access. Participants will have hands-on experiences with the WebQuests and will debrief how these enhance cross-cultural awareness, support literacy skills and develop 21^st century global competencies.

Presenter: Sarah Whelan, Peace Corps Coverdell World Wise Schools

Helping Students to Take Action on Global Challenges

Learning about the world is essential, but taking action that makes a difference in the world is the key to promoting deep global understanding and building students’ self efficacy. This session will highlight how New Global Citizens is helping schools to create student action chapters across the country to study about the Millennium Development Goals, educate others about specific global challenges, and design action initiatives to make a difference in their communities and abroad.

Preparing Teachers for the Global Age

In order for students to develop global competence in schools and during the out of school time, it is essential that educators are prepared to teach for global competence and that their pre-service experiences systematically develop those capacities. In this session, specific models of pre-service learning will be discussed and ideas will be shared on how to globalize teaching and learning the excellent teacher preparation programs at two great universities.

Out of School Learning and the Global Imperative

Building global competence doesn’t stop at the end of the school day. The opportunities to expand global learning into the out of school time offers schools and districts the opportunity to provide a seamless and connected learning experience for their students. Learn how schools are partnering with after school / out of school providers at all levels (elementary, middle and high school) to develop global competence, extend language learning, and bring rigor and relevance to out of school time programming.

2:45 – 3:45 Concurrent Sessions III

Assessing Global Student Work Using the EdSteps Process This session will introduce participants to the Council of Chief State School Officer’s EdSteps initiative on global competence and will share the methodology of paired comparison to assess the level of global competence in student work. This will be a hands-on session where all participants will be asked to look at a set of student work and try their hand at some paired comparisons online. Join in and be a part of this ground-breaking initiative in alternative assessment.

CultureQuest – A New Kind of Global Inquiry

Curiosity about the world, asking important questions, using a variety of sources of information from around the world, and drawing defensible conclusions are essential elements of inquiry and global competence. This session will share CultureQuest as a strategy that engages students and teachers in inquiry-based classroom projects that explore other peoples and cultures. This will be a hands-on session that introduces participants to the project and the web-based resources available to support this.

Developing Global Perspectives Through Online Role-Play Simulations

In this interactive session, teachers will discover ways to use role-play simulations to increase student engagement and understanding of international issues from a variety of perspectives. Examine online role-play simulations design to help students develop peer collaboration and problem-solving skills while they gain a deeper understanding of complex issues and connect with students in other schools. Learn strategies for facilitating online simulations, identify key decisions involved in planning simulation activities and explore a sample simulation.

From Information to Engagement: Connecting Your Students to Under-Reported Issues Around the Globe

Join the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting to discover interactive interdisciplinary tools to engage your students in world affairs and increase their news literacy. Session participants will learn about the Center’s innovative online, in-class and after school programs developed in conjunctions with other educators and youth. Experience the Pulitzer Gateway, a series of educational web portals with original multimedia reporting on systemic global issues which allows online Q&A with journalists and a space for students to post their own reports, connecting global situations to their communities.

Global Connections Beyond Boundaries

There are many ways that middle school students can connect with the world. Washington International School, a Goldman Sachs Prize Winner in International Education, will share an interdisciplinary scientific study of water that connects their students with students in Thailand through Project 20/20 and a social studies focused exploration of how history has evolved through the ages through connections with people through trade, immigration and invasion. Ideas and materials for each of the middle grades units will be shared.

States’ Global Assessment

How global are the schools in your state? Does your state have the policies and processes in place to prepare your students for the global economy and global citizenship? Join this session to look at the latest work of the States’ Network around assessing global learning.

Language Immersion Programs to Build Global Learning (VIF)

Language immersion programs are growing throughout the United States as a valued model of language learning and school reform. In this session, the Visiting International Fellows (VIF) will share their growing language immersion model that links deep language and culture learning in elementary schools with their internationally recognized teacher exchange program to bring the world into the language immersion program.

4:00 – 5:00 Afternoon Plenary

Fostering Global Citizenship

Speaker:

• Mark Gerzon, Founder and President, Mediators Foundation & Co-Chair of the Global Leadership Network

Mark Gerzon helps leaders and their organizations learn skills that are critical for dealing with conflict and leading across difficult social divides. He specializes in enhancing the capacity of competing groups and divided organizations to find alignment around shared goals and values. His book, Leading Through Conflict, laid the groundwork for his forthcoming book, Global Citizens. Global citizenship has been a lifelong interest for the author. For four decades, he has been involved in global affairs. He was one of a small number of students in the history of Harvard College to be awarded full credit for his junior year for circling the world, studying in seven countries from Japan and Thailand to India and Russia. As a young journalist, he co-founded WorldPaper, a global newspaper that reached a circulation of 1.5 million in five languages. Hear his perspective on Global Learning, Global Citizenship and Leadership for today’s students.

• Presenter: Anna Rutins, Journeys in Film

Journeys in Film brings outstanding international films that build students’ understanding of the world into classrooms nationwide and have developed curriculum guides for numerous films that address global issues. Students challenge traditional gender roles in New Zealand’s Maori culture, learn about refugees through young, soccer-loving Tibetan monks, explore compassion in the Middle East, experience unconditional love between a South Korean boy and his mute grandmother, and grieve the loss of family members from the HIV/AIDS epidemic in South Africa. Tonight’s film, Beat the Drum, will chronicle the challenges faced by a young boy who loses his family to AIDS and must make his way from Kwazula Natal into the bustling city of Johannesburg to find family and a way to survive.