Meeting+Minutes+3-5

__ARC Global Committee__

3/5/12

9 AM-12 PM

-Susan: we have two more meetings, so we'll start pairing off to work on tasks during these meetings.

-Rebecca: is this initiative still of interest to the school with a change of Head of School?

-Susan: more than ever. An outside group will be coming in to help evaluate the progress we've made and put in their two cents.

-Susan began sharing notes from speakers at NAIS (Pat Bassett first). Lakeside School is focused on Global Service Learning and creating global citizens. They go on nine theme-based trips a year to "second world" countries (my term). They have a $12 million endowment from Gates for this travel, which only costs $1,400 for four weeks of trips. (Two-week trips are $700). MS students don't go overseas, but do things regionally or domestically (sustainable farms, Indian reservations). Their Global Education Office: one full-time coordinator, one service learning director, a grant writer/fundraiser, and admin. asst. They scout the trips ahead of time, and bring a young alum and a PE (First Aid certified) teacher; lead teacher gets a $4,500 stipend (this is during the summer). Two weeks are orientation/prep, four weeks are the trip itself.

-John: the IB explicitly states that you don't need to have international experiences to teach global citizenship.

-Rebecca:

-Matt: Bruce and Randy are on board with our Service Learning through Advisory and are willing to tweak the schedule to make it happen. Rebecca and I will work up a couple different iterations of it to present to them.

-Susan: we need to focus specifically on what we want to accomplish.

-Nancy: possible mission statement: Preparing students for the world (through global and local experiences).

-Susan: someone at NAIS used the term "glocal."

-Susan: presented a list of schools that have are part of the Global Education Benchmark Group, and who have full-time Global Studies Coordinator. She also gave specific examples of how some schools approach the global studies component. (Susan shared extensive notes). Susan mentioned the importance of having a "signaling event" so the school knows your global initiative is important and fully-supported by the school.

-Susan (con't.): the challenge is, what can we do now that is concrete and direct to move this forward? (Discussion followed of who would be working on each component of what we've discussed as a committee). Specifics were discussed (changing MS "World Geography" to "World Studies," changing "Modern Languages" to "Global Languages."

-John: discussed more mindfully pursuing global themes in various departments/curricula (e.g., books in English).

-Patrick: we should have each division's summer reading be on the theme of globalism or global learning.

-Matt: (going back in the conversation) Have a class in one of the divisions, given certain guidelines, design a menu for the cafeteria with an international theme.

-Susan: divided up tasks according to who was interested in taking on various initiatives (Matt/Rebecca: Service Learning Advisory; Patrick/John: curricular initiatives; Nancy/Kaoru: Global Studies Office).

-(International boarders idea was discussed, and how there still seems to be administrative interest in this even in light of our

-Susan: here are the five major areas we'll work on and present in our final report:

1. International Ctr./Global Office (including Faculty Prof. Dev.) 2. Curriculum 3. Service Learning (through Advisory in the MS) 4. Boarding/Hosting

FIELD RESEARCH


 * **School ** ||  **Committee member(s) **  ||  **Location **  ||  **Focus **  ||
 * Cromwell Valley Elementary  ||  Smith, Mitcherling, Pollard   ||  Baltimore   ||  Innovation   ||
 * Bullis  ||  Woods, Holgate, Kearney   ||  DC Metro   ||  Innovation   ||
 * Potomac  ||  Woods, Mitcherling, Pollard   ||  DC Metro   ||  Innovation   ||
 * <span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Centaur","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">Collegiate  ||  <span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Centaur","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">Kearney, Mitcherling, Scott, Global?   ||  <span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Centaur","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">Richmond   ||  <span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Centaur","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">Global   ||
 * <span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Centaur","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">British School of Washington  ||  <span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Centaur","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">Stine, Global?   ||  <span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Centaur","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">DC   ||  <span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Centaur","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">Global/IB   ||
 * <span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Centaur","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">Cary Academy  ||  <span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Centaur","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">Stine, Global?   ||  <span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Centaur","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">NC   ||  <span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Centaur","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">Global   ||
 * <span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Centaur","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">Hathaway Brown  ||  <span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Centaur","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">Kearney, Scott, Global?   ||  <span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Centaur","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">Ohio   ||  <span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Centaur","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">Global/Innovation   ||
 * <span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Centaur","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">St. Gregory’s Preparatory  ||  <span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Centaur","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">Smith, Koska, Global?   ||  <span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Centaur","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">AZ   ||  <span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Centaur","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">Global/Innovation   ||
 * <span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Centaur","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">Lawrenceville School  ||  <span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Centaur","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">Kearney, Dimitriades,   ||  <span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Centaur","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">NJ   ||  <span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Centaur","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">International/Boarding   ||
 * <span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Centaur","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">The HUN School of Princeton  ||  <span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Centaur","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">Kearney, Dimitriades   ||  <span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Centaur","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">NJ   ||  <span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Centaur","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">International/Boarding   ||