twenty global problems by suciu and miller
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Paul Miller, Director of Global Initiatives - NAIS , [email protected]
Ioana Suciu, Associate Director of Global Initiatives - NAIS, [email protected]
Kusum Wagle, Teacher – Washington International School, [email protected]
Valentine Courouble, 7th Grade Student – Washington International School
NAIS Challenge 20/20: “Solving Global Problems Two Schools at a Time”
NAIS Global Initiatives
The mission of the Global Initiatives team is:
To assist NAIS member schools and their partners in their quest for a more global future for their students, NAIS will nurture partnerships and provide resources within an international framework.
One Book: 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
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 rule book: Issues needing a global regulatory
approach Reinventing taxation for the twenty-first century
Biotechnology rules
Global financial architecture
Illegal drugs
Trade, investment, and competition rules
Intellectual property rights
E-commerce rules
International labor and migration rules
Two Programs:
Challenge 20/20 and
the Global Issues
Network
Global Issues Network
Started in Europe- then Asia, the Middle East
Starting this fall in Africa and the Americas
GIN: Town Meeting Web Platform
www.global-issues-network.org
GIN: Conferences
Annual in Geneva
March 19-21 2009
Europe in Milan Fall 2008
Middle East in Doha March 2009
US Summer Institute in Washington
DC (WIS)
Challenge 20/20: International education
program
Internet-based program with no cost and no travel required
Cross-cultural partnerships
Open to public and private schools, elementary and secondary
Goals
Creative problem-solving
Collaboration
Communication with students from a different country and culture
Community service, service learning
Learning different perspectives
Partnerships
Some schools are already working
together (sister schools etc).
Others are paired by NAIS based on
grade level
topic of interest
preferred partner school and/or location
when they want to start (1st or 2nd term)
2-3 school partnerships
Structure
Relatively unstructured: no benchmarks or performance standards
Paperwork: registration process; reports
Bonus: priority for Institute for Student Leaders for rising 9th to 11th graders
2008 Applications to Participate in Challenge 20/20:
Term One: (September 2008 to February 2009)
Term Two: (January 2009 to May 2009)
All applications for either term are to be submitted to NAIS from by August 15, 2008
Partnerships and announcements are made at the end of August/beginning of September 2008
Apply online at: http://www.nais.org/go/challenge2020.
Participants
2005: 75 schools from 26 US States and 30 countries
2006: 350 schools from 32 US States and 52 countries
2007: More than 400 schools from 39 US States and 56 countries
Examples Mount Saint Joseph Academy, Flourtown, PA, and St. Joseph's Convent Girls' Senior Secondary School, Jabalpur, India
Global problem: Infectious Diseases9-12
Students launched a charitable partnership with two impoverished towns in India.
Examples
Elementary School Partnership
PK-5Bright School, Chattanooga, TN, partnered with Colegio Cristobal Colon, Lomas Verdes, Naucalpan de Juarez, Mexico.
Global Problem: Water Deficits
Students are running informational campaigns including public service TV spots they created, to encourage water conservation.
Examples
St. Mary’s Episcopal School, Memphis Tennessee and Steigerwald Landschulheim Gymnasium
Wiesentheid Germany
9-12
Global Infectious Diseases
Schools decided to concentrate on hygiene
Created The Helping Hands Program
Sanitizers and educational tools put in to the Hospital Benjamin Bloom in El Salvador, working with an NGO there