Note: This document refers to an event in the past and is here for information purposes only.
A Call to Action: Putting a Face to Poverty
Symposium date: February 27, 2006
Location: Washington Internation School, Tregaron Campus (directions)
Last year's “Call to Action” symposium focused on Hunger and Food Security, and the response by over forty school teacher/administrator/student teams was overwhelmingly positive. We were encouraged by the Longview Foundation to continue this innovative approach to bringing global issues into the classroom. The space for this year's symposium will be limited to only fifty schools.
What makes CIE’s “Call to Action” approach unique?
- Each year the symposium focuses on a significant global issue. This year it is poverty.
- Schools send teams (no more than four people) made up of teachers, administrators and students (grades 7-11 only).
- Each school will develop an action plan to address poverty by taking action in their schools and communities.
- Leaders confronting compelling global issues will address how schools can take action. This year J.F. Rischard, author of High Noon: 20 Global Problems, 20 Years to Solve Them, will begin the day.
- Leading educators and organization representatives will give roundtable presentations on ways that students and teachers can address poverty.
- CIE's IFE Fellows, student leaders from across the city, will share what they have learned about poverty, how they propose to take action, and will invite other students present to join them.
- CIE offers the latest technology support and resources to enable your school to build ideas collaboratively with other schools and to access roundtable resources online.
- This year will introduce a way that schools can form a network to collaborate with one another to build a greater awareness of and capacity to respond to the issues that face our global community.
If you want to better prepare your students for the challenges we face in the world, join us. If you want to learn how to use our resources and opportunities to collaborate in ways that invigorate and focus your program and curriculum, join us. If you want to learn about ways to empower your students and teachers to take action in and outside of the classroom, please join us.