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

In attendance:
Michele Anciaux Aoki, P-20 International Ed Summit Project Director (recorder)
Sue Ranney, Hamilton International Middle School, Seattle S.D.
Aleksandra Monk, Ethnic Heritage Council Board

Agenda

1. Plan some focus groups with students (and teachers?) this spring to get their input on the Summit.
2. Identify specific strands or topics to include, for example, some suggestions so far:

• Global Perspectives on Diversity and Citizenship Education (Jim Banks & Walter Parker)
• International Studies & Human Dignity (Scott Wyatt)
• World Languages (including language immersion and heritage languages)
• International Education and the Washington State Essential Academic Learning Requirements
• What does Cultural Competence mean?

3. Draft a communication plan for the next few weeks.

Progress this past week

• Held second Summit Planning Meeting (click link to read Meeting Summary April 14, 2003)
• Got info from UW and SPU about clock hours and credit hours for teachers
• Attended first meeting of new Steering Committee for Washington State Coalition for International Education (facilitated by Cynthia Rekdal)
• Contacted PTA leaders about submitting a PTA Advocacy Topic on International Education to Washington State PTA
  (see Criteria.)
   

Summary

1. Involving Students

• Connect with Service Learning opportunities (e.g., students would have a chance to find out about community organizations involved in International Ed where students could volunteer time for service learning hours).
• Ask teachers and educators in the Coalition to survey their students about their ideas for making the Summit a meaningful experience for students.
• Sample Questions for Students:
  • How do you define international education?
  • What should a student get in a global education?
  • What are some examples of projects or activities where you learned the most?
  • Pick a country. What do you already know about that country? What would you like to learn?
  • Pick a hero -- one from America and one from another country. With these two people in mind, what does it mean to be a hero?
  • If you could travel anywhere in the world, where would you go and why?

2. Strands or Topics
   Continued discussion:

• Integrating International Ed into the Curriculum For teachers, need to provide practical things for them to use in the classroom. What can you do? Where does it fit in?
   
• Global Perspective
  John Stanford and Hamilton International Middle Schools have designed a graphic representation for this. Might consider using it for the Summit.

(See Global Outlook Fall 2002 and the source of this approach: Globaled.org > Guidelines for Global and International Studies Education: Challenges, Culture, Connections.)

• Opening to the Summit
  Should provide a larger perspective and give a sense of deep caring and aligned energy.
   
• Teacher Survey (at or in conjunction with Summit)
  One purpose of the Summit is to help us assess what's working and what's not in our state with regard to International Education (global education multi-cultural, etc.) What resources, training, programs, and services are needed?

3. Communications Plan
   May

• Contact major education associations to get the Summit on their calendars (already reached OSPI)
• Make sure Summit is on the calendar of organizations in the Washington State Coalition for International Education
• Get flyer designed and printed

June

• Distribute flyers to Summer Institutes and other upcoming events

Email Contributions

Hi Michele,
Some thoughts:

1. Theme: add “Teaching” and replace “inter. world” with global village -- “Teaching and  Learning in the Global Village.” I think it’s provocative, and makes the reader murmur to herself, “But IS this a global village or something else?”

2. Content: the summit should have substantive/academic sessions. I’m thinking of lectures on Iraq and contemporary world religions and other “current events”-oriented sessions as well as lectures from world historians and global geographers. This is where you could connect with Mary Bernson of the Jackson School: she might help identify and contact the UW profs who would do this.  [note: the UW global geographers are doing fascinating work—visit the websites of Katharyne Mitchell, Matt Sparke, and Mark Purcell. While at the geog dept homepage (http://depts.washington.edu/geog/) click on globalization.]

3. Student event: the summit might include a major event for area high school youth, such as a county-wide student forum on X.  X would be Iraq, maybe, or something more pertinent in Sept. The World Affairs Council is brilliant at this, and I this could be something specific that you might contact Nancy Bacon about.

4. Participants: it would be great if ALL the King county teachers of world geography and world history and contemporary world problems (three common courses) could come and meet one another. Perhaps through the social studies district coordinators (e.g., Renko in Seattle; Dave Wackerbarth in Shoreline; Peter Bogdanoff in Bellevue), as well as the Wa state council for the social studies (pres: Jim Meadows of WEA), this arrangement could be made explicit.

I hope this is helpful.
Best,
Walter Parker

 

Next Steps

• (Sue and Michele) Draft some sample questions for students to discuss and ask the teachers and educators in the Coalition to follow up with students in their schools.
• (Michele) Set up a meeting with Caleb Perkins to talk about (Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction) OSPI's involvement in the Summit.
• Set next planning meeting