2017 Leadership Program
June 19-23, 2017
UNC Center for School Leadership Development
5.0 CEU offered
Today’s globally connected world requires that we prepare students to become globally competent, globally competitive citizens of the world who are able to work collaboratively across cultures.
World View’s Global Education Leaders Program has, for the past 15 years, helped professional educators plan and implement programs that increase global understanding among faculty and students in their schools, districts and colleges.
Eligibility | Program | Featured Speakers and Facilitators | Cost
Eligibility
K-12 Administrators and Community College Educators
- Commitment to incorporating global education into your school, district or college
- Ability to attend all five days of the program
- Completed online application (includes a short essay)
K-12 Teacher Leaders
- K-12 public or independent school teacher
- Commitment to incorporate global education into your classroom and school
- Ability to attend all five days of the program
- Completed online application (includes a short essay)
Program
Participants in this intensive week-long program will examine, analyze and discuss timely global issues that impact students and communities today.
Sessions will be led by UNC faculty experts skilled at helping educators develop goals for increasing the global competence of faculty and students. A specially designed track for K-12 teachers will focus more extensively on strategies for the classroom.
Attendance and participation in the entire five-day program is required to become a World View Global Education Leader.
| Monday, June 19 |
Day 1 | Center for School Leadership Development |
| 8:00am | Registration | Atrium |
| 8:30am | Welcome and Introductions Charlé LaMonica World View, UNC-Chapel Hill Carol Tresolini Office of the Provost, UNC-Chapel Hill |
Room 111 |
| 9:45am | Break | |
| 10:00am | Engaging Globalism and Working Across Cultures Tim Flood Kenan-Flagler Business School, UNC-Chapel Hill |
Room 111 |
| 12:00pm | Working Lunch: Embracing the Cultural Dimensions of Globalization Tim Flood Kenan-Flagler Business School, UNC-Chapel Hill |
Room 111 |
| 2:30pm | Break | |
| 3:00pm | Book Discussion Thank You for Being Late by Thomas L. Friedman Facilitated by Charlé LaMonica World View, UNC-Chapel Hill |
Room 111 |
| 4:00pm | K-12 Administrators and Community College Creating the Vision Charlé LaMonica World View, UNC-Chapel Hill |
Room 111 |
| Teacher Leaders Creating the Vision: Teachers as Leaders Holly Loranger World View, UNC-Chapel Hill Kathy Spencer World View Education Consultant and Advisory Board Member |
Room 119 | |
| 5:00 pm | Adjourn Dinner on your own—please see the list of area international restaurants in LiveBinder |
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| Tuesday, June 20 |
Day 2 | Center for School Leadership Development |
| 8:00am | Learning Conversations | Room 111 |
| 8:30am | When the Asian Immigrant Becomes the Asian American Jennifer Ho Department of English and Comparative Literature, UNC-Chapel Hill |
Room 111 |
| 9:45am | Break | |
| 10:00am | The Puzzle of Cuba-U.S. Relations Louis A. Pérez Jr. Department of History and Institute for the Study of the Americas, UNC-Chapel Hill |
Room 111 |
| 12:00pm | Lunch | The Friday Center Trillium |
| 1:00pm | Russia Since the Dissolution of the USSR in Historical Perspective Donald J. Raleigh Department of History, UNC-Chapel Hill |
Room 111 |
| 2:15pm | Break | |
| 2:30pm | Book Announcement: Half of a Yellow Sun, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Presented by Sarah Brady UNC-World View, Chapel Hill |
Room 111 |
| 2:35pm | Global Game | Room 111 |
| 2:45pm | K-12 Administrators and Community College China in the 21st Century Michael Tsin Department of History, UNC-Chapel Hill |
Room 111 |
| Teacher Leaders Leading in Your School Kathy Spencer World View Education Consultant and Advisory Board Member |
Room 119 | |
| 4:00pm | K-12 Administrators and Community College Reflection and Goal Setting Facilitated by Charlé LaMonica and Neil Bolick World View, UNC-Chapel Hill |
Room 111 |
| Teacher Leaders UNC Teacher Resources Sarah Brown Carolina Asia Center, UNC-Chapel Hill |
Room 119 | |
| 5:00pm | Adjourn Travel to Thai Palace for group dinner |
1206 Raleigh Rd., Chapel Hill |
| Wednesday, June 21 |
Day 3 | Center for School Leadership Development |
| 8:00am | Learning Conversations Nominations for class representatives |
Room 111 |
| 8:30am | Art, Politics and Culture in the African Diaspora Joseph Jordan Sonja H. Stone Center for Black Culture and History, UNC-Chapel Hill |
Room 111 |
| 10:00am | Break | |
| 10:15am | Global Citizenship/Ethical Leadership Suzanne Allen Gulledge School of Education, UNC-Chapel Hill |
Room 111 |
| 11:30am | Book Announcement: This is How You Lose Her, by Junot Díaz Presented by Nancy Bartolome UNC-World View, Chapel Hill |
Room 111 |
| 11:35am | Election of class representatives | Room 111 |
| 12:00pm | Lunch | The Friday Center Trillium |
| Afternoon | K-12 Administrators and Community College
1:00pm
Leading in the Middle 2:15pm
Break and Global Game 2:30pm
The Global Education Behind the Superintendent: A Journey in Leadership 3:30pm
Stamping out The Single Story: Seminar for Administrators and Community College Educators |
Room 111 |
| Teacher Leaders
1:00pm
Film: The Music of Strangers 2:45pm
Break 3:00pm
UNC Teacher Resources 4:00pm
Break 4:15pm
Global Educator Digital Badge |
Room 119 | |
| 5:00pm | Adjourn Dinner on your own—please see the list of area international restaurants in LiveBinder |
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| Thursday, June 22 |
Day 4 | Center for School Leadership Development |
| 8:00am | Learning Conversations Book Announcement: Prayers for the Stolen, by Jennifer Clement Presented by Holly Loranger World View, UNC-Chapel Hill |
Room 111 |
| 8:30am | Security in the Post-Post 9-11 Twenty-First Century Robin Dorff College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Kennesaw State University |
Room 111 |
| 10:00am | Break | |
| 10:15am | Teaching the Middle East Charles Kurzman Carolina Center for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Civilizations, UNC-Chapel Hill |
Room 111 |
| 11:30am | Break | |
| 11:45am | Lunch | The Friday Center Trillium |
| 1:00pm | Global Issues Seminar: Universal Education for Girls | |
| Janet Cowell Corporate Director, James River Insurance Company Corporate Director, University of Pennsylvania Lauder Institute Former State Treasurer, NC Department of State Treasurer |
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| Amy Hertel American Indian Center UNC-Chapel Hill |
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| Gloria Thomas Carolina Women’s Center UNC-Chapel Hill |
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| 2:30pm | K-12 Administrators and Community College Film: He Named Me Malala |
Room 111 |
| Teacher Leaders UNC Teacher Resources Emma Harver Carolina Center for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Civilizations, UNC-Chapel Hill |
Room 119 | |
| 3:30pm | Break | |
| 3:45pm | Raising Leaders: Perspectives and Lessons on Global Education for Girls Terza Silva Lima-Neves Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Johnson C. Smith University |
Room 111 |
| 5:15pm | Reception Honoring the participants of the 2017 Global Education Leaders Program |
Terrace |
| Friday, June 23 |
Day 5 | Center for School Leadership Development |
| 8:00am | Learning Conversations | Room 111 |
| 8:30am | Disruptive Demographics and the Triple Whammy of Geographic Disadvantage for America’s Nonwhite Youth James H. Johnson Jr. Urban Investment Strategies Center and Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise, UNC-Chapel Hill |
Room 111 |
| 10:00am | Break | |
| 10:15am | Global Education: Professional Goal Setting, Moving Forward K-12 Administrators: Charlé LaMonica World View, UNC-Chapel Hill Teacher Leaders: Holly Loranger World View, UNC-Chapel Hill Community College: Neil Bolick World View, UNC-Chapel Hill |
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| 11:15am | Group Photograph | Atrium |
| 11:30am | Graduation Luncheon
Welcome Remarks by Class Representatives Leading the Way in Global Education |
The Friday Center Trillium |
| 1:30pm | Adjourn |
Featured Speakers and Facilitators
Carina Brossy is a World View outreach specialist with over ten years of global education experience. She has worked as World View’s assistant director for curriculum, working with schools and colleges to integrate global competencies. She has also served as a middle school teacher. Carina has a B.A. in Spanish and international affairs and speaks Spanish, French and some Mandarin.
Janet Cowell serves on the boards of James River Group Insurance and Channel Advisor. She was the publicly elected Treasurer of the State of North Carolina from 2009–2016, managing over $100 billion in assets and health and retirement benefits for over 900,000 members. Prior to serving as Treasurer, Cowell was a securities analyst for Lehman Brothers and HSBC in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia and worked as a business consultant for U.S. Fortune 500 companies with Sibson & Company. She was elected to the Raleigh City Council and the North Carolina State Senate.
Robin Dorff is dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences and a professor in the department of political science and international affairs at Kennesaw State University. Previously, he served on the U.S. Army War College faculty and he remains extensively involved in strategic leadership development, focusing on national security strategy and policy and strategic formulation.
Helga Fasciano is the special assistant for global education at the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, where she is responsible for coordinating the implementation of the North Carolina State Board of Education’s strategic plan for global education.
Tim Flood teaches several courses on presentation skills, global communication, business writing, U.S. language and culture for international and exchange students in the MBA Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Kenan-Flagler Business School. His research interests include the roles of media and technology in both interpersonal and corporate communication, cross-cultural communication and global business leadership fluency.
Suzanne Allen Gulledge is a professor and division chair in the School of Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her teaching and research is in the areas of curriculum and instruction, international education and experiential learning. Her writing and presentations address global citizenship, arts and perspective taking and the ethical dimensions of teaching. She was recently named the director of the Academic Leadership Program in the Institute for Arts and Humanities.
Amy Hertel is director of the American Indian Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Previously she served as a project manager at the Center for Social Development at Washington University in St. Louis and as a corporate attorney in St. Louis. Her area of study is asset building in tribal communities, and she has experience with grassroots giving, capacity building and community-based participatory research.
Jennifer Ho is a professor in the department of English and comparative literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she teaches courses in Asian American literature, multi-ethnic American literature and contemporary American identities. Her research interests are in critical race theory, anti-racism and narratology. She is associate director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities.
James H. Johnson Jr. is a professor of management, sociology and public policy and director of the Urban Investment Strategies Center in the Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research focuses on the causes and consequences of growing inequality in American society.
Joseph Jordan is director of the Sonja H. Stone Center for Black Culture and History. He is also a professor of African and African American studies, an affiliate faculty member in the curriculum in global studies and a board member of the National Council for Black Studies. His current work focuses on the cultural politics of race, identity and artistic production in the diaspora.
Charles Kurzman is a professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and co-director of the Carolina Center for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Civilizations. He is author of The Missing Martyrs, Democracy Denied, 1905-1915 and The Unthinkable Revolution in Iran, and editor of the anthologies Liberal Islam and Modernist Islam, 1840-1940.
Terza Silva Lima-Neves is a Cabo Verdean woman, wife, mommy-scholar, Johnson C. Smith University associate professor and advocate for the rights of women and girls. She is founding president of Cape Verdeans of the Carolinas Association and co-founder of PODEROSA, the International Conference on Cabo Verdean women. Her courses and research focus on African international, comparative and gender politics.
Mark McNeilly teaches marketing and organizational behavior in both the full-time MBA and online MBA@UNC programs. He serves as a faculty advisor for the STAR program and executive coach in the Leadership program. He has served as a global marketing executive and has several years of experience with both IBM and Lenovo in the IT industry. His business background includes branding, strategy, marketing, market intelligence, management, manufacturing and personnel.
Austin Obasohan is the superintendent of Duplin County Schools in Duplin, North Carolina. He was born in a farming community in western Africa. He began his education in his home country of Nigeria, completed his postsecondary studies in England and the United States and received his doctorate in educational leadership from Appalachian State University. Throughout his 30-year educational career, he has served children in public schools in Alabama, Virginia and North Carolina. During that time, he has embraced the roles of teacher, coach, assistant principal, principal, central office director and superintendent of schools.
Louis A. Pérez Jr. is director of the Institute for the Study of the Americas and a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has written extensively on Cuba and is an expert of Cuba and Caribbean history. His most recent books include On Becoming Cuban: Identity, Nationality, and Culture, winner of the 2000 Bolton-Johnson Prize, The War of 1898: The United States and Cuba in History and Historiography, Winds of Change: Hurricanes and the Transformation of Nineteenth-Century Cuba, winner of the 2001 George Perkins Marsh Prize, and To Die in Cuba: Suicide and Society, winner of the 2007 Elsa Goveia Prize.
Donald J. Raleigh is a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research and teaching interests focus on 20th-century Russian history. As a political and social historian, he wrote extensively on the Russian Revolution, with a particular emphasis on local history (the Saratov region). He also closely followed the evolution of historical writing in the Soviet Union and in this capacity edited the journal Soviet (Russian) Studies in History and the monograph series The New Russian History.
Kathy Spencer is an independent consultant and coach for educators and leaders across the country. Spencer has served at all levels of the K-12 educational system, beginning as a classroom teacher and completing her service as the superintendent of a growing school system in eastern North Carolina, serving over 25,000 students. She continues to provide training, guidance and support to education leaders across the state as a teaching professor in the Educational Leadership Department at East Carolina University.
Gloria Thomas is director of the Carolina Women’s Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Previously, she served as the director of the Center for the Education of Women at the University of Michigan and in two associate director positions at the American Council on Education, where she worked with leadership development and enhancing career success for women in academia.
Carol Tresolini is the vice provost for academic initiatives at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she provides administrative oversight for the academic support and public service units reporting to the Office of the Provost. She also works with distance-learning initiatives and facilities planning initiatives. She has previously worked with the UNC School of Medicine, the Pew Health Professions Commission, mental health and correctional institutions, schools and social service agencies.
Michael Tsin is an associate professor in the Department of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He holds an M.A. from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London and a Ph.D. from Princeton University. His current research focuses on exploring the social processes of identity formation through the prism of late nineteenth and twentieth century China.
Cost
North Carolina educators: $850 per person
Out-of-state educators: $950 per person
Registration fee covers meals.
Participants are responsible for lodging costs.