Going Global in Grades K-8: Introduction to NAIS’s Global Programs
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Going Global in Grades K-8: Introduction to NAIS’s Global Programs
Ioana Simona Suciu Wheeler
NAIS Associate Director of Global Initiatives
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For K-8 Schools, NAIS recommends:
• International Partnerships/Online Collaboration (NAIS’s Challenge 20/20 Program)
• Languages (NAIS’s China Connection Program)• Service Learning• Summer Programs
• Exchanges
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NAIS’s Challenge 20/20 Program
Apply Now! Join Hundreds of Schools Solving the World’s Problems!
Website: http://www.nais.org/go/challenge2020
Based on J.F. Richard’s book: High Noon: 20 Global Problems, 20 Years to Solve Them
Contact: Ioana Simona Suciu Wheeler, associate director of global initiatives at [email protected]
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Sharing our planet: issues involving the global commons• Global warming• Biodiversity and ecosystem losses• Fisheries depletion• Deforestation• Water deficits• Maritime safety and pollution
Sharing our humanity: issues requiring a global commitment• Massive step-up in the fight against poverty• Peacekeeping, conflict prevention, combating terrorism• Education for all• Global Infectious Diseases• Digital divide• Natural disaster prevention and mitigation
Sharing our rulebook: issues needing a global regulatory approach
• Reinventing taxation for the 21st century• Biotechnology rules• Global financial architecture• Illegal drugs• Trade, investment, and competition rules• Intellectual property rights• E-commerce rules• International labor and migration rules.
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Program Details:
• Flexible• No benchmarks or strict
requirements• Free of cost (purchase book)• No travel is required • Online collaboration (wikis, Skype,
Facebook, Ning, Moodle, Second Life, videoconferencing, teleconferencing)
• We accept all schools: elementary and secondary, public and private
• Schools can find their own partners or ask NAIS to partner them
• Southern and Northern Hemisphere schools
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Challenge 20/20 Stats as of June 2010:
• Sixth year; program developed in 2005-06
• 300-500 schools participate every year
• 2 to 4 schools within a partnership• Over 1,050 schools in the US and
724 schools in other countries have participated in 656 partnerships since 2005-2006
• 99 countries represented and 47 U.S. states
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Joining the Challenge 20/20 Program:
• Submit your application from March to August!
• Select Term One (September to January) or Term Two (January to May). Partnerships made by September.
• Submit an Agreement for Participation.
• Contact your partner school/s to begin your collaboration.
• At the end of each Term, submit an online team report as well as photographs, testimonials and supplemental materials.
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Examples of Challenge 20/20 Projects:
• Mosquito Nets designed for small children in Africa (CO)
• Supplying a village in India with a nurse/medical facility (PA)
• Supplying hand sanitizers to hospitals in Mexico and Honduras (TX)
• Rebuilding a school in Tanzania (CA)
• Public service announcements regarding water deficits (OK)
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NAIS’s China Connection Program
Register by early March to Hire a New Chinese Teacher! Visit Beijing and Shanghai in March!
Website: http://www.nais.org/go/global under China Connection
Contact: Ioana Simona Suciu Wheeler, associate director of global initiatives at [email protected]
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Who Can Participate?•Schools interested in starting a Mandarin program•Schools interested in expanding an existing Mandarin program•Schools interested in hiring qualified native Mandarin teachers•NAIS member schools only
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Why Participate?
•Easy and inexpensive way to introduce Mandarin into your school’s curriculum
•NAIS, HANBAN and IIE do most of the work; we assist with logistics, finding qualified candidates, J-1 visas, acculturation trainings, stipends, teacher support through the China Connection Listserve, etc. CAIS in San Francisco.
•Teachers can stay in the U.S. for up to three years
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China Connection Stats as of June 2010:
•Fifth year: the program was launched in 2006•To date, 32 independent schools•45 Chinese teachers. Many of them returned to teach in the US for up to three years•If interested, sign up now!
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Details and Contacts:
Websites:
• http://www.nais.org/go/challenge2020 (Challenge 20/20)
• http://www.nais.org/go/global (China Connection)
Contact: Ioana Simona Suciu Wheeler, associate director of global initiatives at (202) 973-9755 or by email at