Special Event and Reception
Preparing Future Leaders: How Education Can Confront Global Challenges
Friday, July 18, 2008
5:15 p.m.–7 p.m.
R.S.V.P. mandatory
This panel discusses new vehicles for global problem-solving through education. We are examining such pressing questions as:
- How can educators inspire new approaches to identify and manage the world's most pressing problems?
- On this ever-flattening planet, with instant communication, linked consumer-produced content, and networking without borders, what kinds of unintended consequences and conflicts have we created for ourselves?
- How do we confront such issues as environmental degradation, resource depletion, income gaps, hunger, and illiteracy in a world where the customary methods driven by national perspectives and visions are falling short?
- With the U.S. presidential race highlighting many needs, what role do educators play in preparing young leaders to confront these problems?
- Can secondary schools and universities intervene to reevaluate these approaches critically?
- How can educators foster global competencies and skills in their students?
All attendees must send a R.S.V.P. by Monday June 23, via email: international@collegeboard.org.
Distinguished panelists
Head, Washington International School, Washington, D.C.
Clayton Lewis has served as a leader in international education for 27 years, including heading the Washington International School, the International School of Luxembourg, the American School of the Hague, and the American School in London. Lewis has also worked actively to create networks of international schools to discuss and address global issues, forming the Global Issues Network (GIN). GIN aims to empower young people to develop solutions for global problems and to implement their ideas. The GlN conferences in Asia and in Europe have brought together dozens of international schools and hundreds of students to meet experts and engage in projects.
Economist and author, Paris, France
Since retiring as the World Bank's vice president for Europe in 2005, following a 30-year-long career at that organization, Jean-François Rischard has been addressing policy makers and educators on the urgent need for new approaches to global problem solving. He is also working with a half dozen organizations, comprising some 6,000 schools worldwide, to inspire changes in curriculum and facilitate interschool links between students. His involvement is designed to expose students more systematically to urgent global issues and help them develop global perspectives. Much of this work is based on his book High Noon: 20 Global Problems, 20 Years to Solve Them (Basic Books, New York, 2003), published in 15 languages. He has an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School, a Doctorate in Law from Luxembourg, and a Maîtrise and D.E.S. in Economics from the University of Aix-Marseille.
AP Teacher, the Metropolitan Learning Center Interdistrict Magnet School for Global & International Studies, Bloomfield, Connecticut
Caryn Stedman is a long-time champion of international literacy and has contributed to making Metropolitan Learning Center an award-winning school for its global education instruction and initiatives. While serving as department chair of her school's social studies department and teaching AP courses, Stedman is also an adjunct instructor of world history and East Asian history within the history department of Central Connecticut State University.
