Clare Sisisky

Director of International Education Collegiate SchoolRichmond, Virginia

clare_sisisky@collegiate-va.org

Agenda:

Collaboration Across Borders: Why and How?

Structuring a High School Program: Whole Community Effort

Transformational Outcomes

Alternate Models and Challenges

Goal: To create a program for students to develop the leadership and communication skills to collaborate together on ways to impact pressing global problems in a way that challenges them, allows for personal connections, and is transformational for our school community as a whole.

Why Collaboration Across Borders?

High Noon: 20 Global Problems, 20 Years to Solve Them

Sharing our planet: Issues involving the global community

• Global warming• Biodiversity and ecosystem losses• Fisheries depletion• Deforestation• Water deficits• Maritime safety and pollution

Jean-Francois Rischard

•Food•Water•Clean air•Longevity (health & social issues)•Energy

•Source•CO2 emissions

Dr. Mark Wrighton Chancellor, Washington University

Solutions will most likely be transnational and involve multiple stakeholders

Solutions will involve local and global for-profit companies as stakeholders

Identifying Strong Partners

Developing Collaboration Skills

Whole Community Effort

Goal: To create a program for students to develop the leadership and communication skills to collaborate together on ways to impact pressing global problems in a way that challenges them, allows for personal connections, and is transformational for our school community as a whole.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-KGDB5KKKQ

Transformational Outcomes

The best predictors of “outstanding achievement”?

•Zest

•Grit

•Self-control

•Social intelligence

•Gratitude

•Optimism

•Curiosity

University of Pennsylvania Research

Packages go to people. The growth is where the people are..

Alternate Models, Challenges, and Questions