2019 K-12 Global Education Symposium
October 16-17, 2019
The Friday Conference Center
1.5 CEU offered
In 2015 almost 200 governments adopted the Sustainable Development Goals to guide what must be done to improve the health and well-being of the world’s population. During the symposium educators will explore the 17 global goals and their importance. Educators will leave with strategies for integrating global content across curriculum.
Partners: $175 per person; $600 per team of four / Non-Partners: $200 per person; $700 per team of four.
Schedule | Speakers | Concurrent Sessions | Exhibitors | Program Material | Lodging & Directions
View a pdf of the program here.
Schedule
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16 | |
8:00 a.m. | Registration and Continental Breakfast |
8:30 a.m. | Welcome Charlé LaMonica, Director, World View, UNC-Chapel Hill
Carol Tresolini, Vice Provost for Academic Initiatives, UNC-Chapel Hill
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8:45 a.m. | Plenary I
Teaching for Global Competence in a Rapidly Changing World
Anthony Jackson, Vice President and Director, Center for Global Education at Asia Society
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9:45 a.m. |
Plenary II
An Introduction to the UN Sustainable Development Goals
Gina Chowa, PhD, MSW, Associate Dean for Global Engagement and Director of Global Social Development Innovations, UNC School of Social Work
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10:45 a.m. | Break and Exhibits |
11:00 a.m. | Concurrent Sessions I |
12:00 p.m. | Lunch |
1:00 p.m. | Concurrent Sessions II |
2:00 p.m. | Break and Transition to Next Session |
2:15 p.m. | Concurrent Sessions III |
3:15 p.m. | Break and Transition to Grumman Auditorium |
3:30 p.m. | Plenary III
Building International Connections Through the National History Day Project
Michael Williams, Principal, H.E. Winkler Middle School, Cabarrus County Schools
Andrea Kiser, IB Coordinator, H.E. Winkler Middle School, Cabarrus County Schools
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4:30 p.m. | Action Planning or Team Meetings |
5:00 p.m. | Adjourn |
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17 | |
8:00 a.m. | Continental Breakfast |
8:30 a.m. | Welcome
Charlé LaMonica, Director, World View, UNC-Chapel Hill
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8:40 a.m. | Plenary IV
UNESCO Intercultural Competency Training
Darla Deardorff, Executive Director, Association of International Education Administrators
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10:40 a.m. | Break and Exhibits |
11:00 a.m. | Plenary V
The Distance We’ve Come
Jim Thomas, Director, MEASURE Evaluation Project, Carolina Population Center
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12:00 p.m. | Adjourn to Action
Charlé LaMonica, Director, World View, UNC-Chapel Hill
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Speakers
Gina Chowa is the associate dean for Global Engagement, as well as director of Global Social Development Innovations at UNC’s School of Social Work. She is a graduate of the University of Zambia and the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis. Gina also serves as a senior research fellow for the Center for Social Development in Africa in Johannesburg and is the lead faculty director for global asset building at the Center for Social Development at Washington University. She conducts research and teaches on global social development, particularly the intersection of economic security, workforce development, social protection and financial inclusion and its impact on the well-being of vulnerable and marginalized populations in the Global South. Her research is informed by more than two decades of global development practice. She has earned multiple honors and awards, including the prestigious Ruth and Philip Hettleman Prize for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement, the Wallace Kuralt Early Career Distinguished Professorship and for teaching excellence. Her work has been published in various interdisciplinary and social work journals.
Darla K. Deardorff is executive director of the Association of International Education Administrators, as well as a research scholar at Duke University. She is an EAIE trainer who holds a master’s degree in adult education with a focus on second language acquisition and a doctorate degree in education with a focus on international higher education. Darla has lived and taught abroad in Germany, Switzerland and Japan and is a faculty member at several universities around the world including in China, Japan, the US and South Africa as well as having served as faculty at Harvard’s Future of Learning Institute, Harvard’s Global Education Think Tank and the Summer Institute of Intercultural Communication. Founder of the World Council on Intercultural and Global Competence and ICC Global, she has conducted cross-cultural training for universities, companies and nonprofit organizations for over 20 years and is frequently invited to give talks around the world. A recipient of numerous awards including Fulbright, Darla has published widely on international education, intercultural competence and outcomes assessment with eight books and more than 60 articles and book chapters.
Anthony Jackson leads the Center for Global Education at Asia Society, which strives to enable all students to graduate high school prepared for college, for work in the global economy and for 21st century global citizenship. The Center is a platform for advancing education for global competence for all youth though empowering professional development for teachers and school heads, systems change and public engagement. Tony co-authored a blueprint for middle school reform, Turning Points 2000, and more recently co-authored Educating for Global Competence: Preparing Our Youth to Engage the World.
Andrea Kiser is the International Baccalaureate coordinator at H.E. Winkler Middle School: An Academy for International Studies. She has worked in international education for more than a decade as an award-winning science teacher and IB coordinator. At present, she is leading the authorization of Winkler Middle School with the IBO. Andrea has taught both science and social studies in her career.
James (Jim) Thomas is an associate professor in the department of epidemiology at UNC-Chapel Hill’s Gillings School of Global Public Health and director of the MEASURE Evaluation Project at Carolina Population Center. His work in public health spans more than 35 years and 25 countries. His principal interests are in the social epidemiology of HIV/AIDS along with public health ethics and human rights. In addition to his many scholarly articles, he was an editor and author of a textbook on epidemiologic methods in the study of infectious diseases and principal author of the American Public Health Association’s Code of Ethics. As director of the MEASURE Evaluation Project, Jim is leading a global team that is advancing the capacity of developing countries to monitor their epidemics and evaluate their programs to control them.
Michael Williams is the principal at H.E. Winkler Middle School: An Academy for International Studies and lecturer in social studies education and urban youth and communities at UNC Charlotte. Over the past 21 years, he has served as an award-winning social studies teacher, district instructional specialist for secondary schools, assistant principal and principal. His areas of expertise lie in building multi-tiered systems of student supports, teaching for social justice and curriculum development. Michael holds a Master of Education in social studies education from UNC Charlotte, a Master of Science in educational leadership from Western Governors University and is currently a candidate for an Ed.D. in educational policy, organization and leadership with a specialization in diversity and equity from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Concurrent Sessions
Exhibitors
North Carolina-Moldova Partnership North Carolina Secretary of State Department sosnc.gov/divisions/moldova_partnership |
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Program Material
Required Reading for Continuing Education Units (1.5 CEU):
- Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN). Chapter 1: Getting to know the Sustainable Development Goals in Getting Started with the Sustainable Development Goals, A Guide for Stakeholders. December 2015. Available at: https://sdg.guide/chapter-1-getting-to-know-the-sustainable-development-goals-e05b9d17801
- Lee, Jenni. 6 Reasons to Keep Pushing on the Sustainable Development Goals. United Nations Foundation Blog. Published July 9, 2019. Available at: https://unfoundation.org/blog/post/6-reasons-to-keep-pushing-on-the-sustainable-development-goals
Lodging & Directions
Sheraton Chapel Hill
919-489-7555
1 Europa Drive, Chapel Hill, NC 27517
Rate: $99.00, guaranteed until September 17, 2019
Rooms can be booked by calling the hotel directly and mentioning the group code “K-12” or by following this link.
Courtyard by Marriott
919-883-0700
100 Marriott Way, Chapel Hill, NC 27517
Rate – $139.00, guaranteed until September 15, 2019
Rooms can be booked by calling the hotel directly and mentioning the K-12 Global Education Symposium room block or by following this link.