Collaborations Across Borders
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Transcript of Collaborations Across Borders
Clare Sisisky
Director of International Education Collegiate SchoolRichmond, Virginia
Agenda:
Collaboration Across Borders: Why and How?
Structuring a High School Program: Whole Community Effort
Transformational Outcomes
Alternate Models and Challenges
Goal: To create a program for students to develop the leadership and communication skills to collaborate together on ways to impact pressing global problems in a way that challenges them, allows for personal connections, and is transformational for our school community as a whole.
Why Collaboration Across Borders?
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
Jean-Francois Rischard
•Food•Water•Clean air•Longevity (health & social issues)•Energy
•Source•CO2 emissions
Dr. Mark Wrighton Chancellor, Washington University
Solutions will most likely be transnational and involve multiple stakeholders
Solutions will involve local and global for-profit companies as stakeholders
Identifying Strong Partners
Developing Collaboration Skills
Whole Community Effort
Goal: To create a program for students to develop the leadership and communication skills to collaborate together on ways to impact pressing global problems in a way that challenges them, allows for personal connections, and is transformational for our school community as a whole.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-KGDB5KKKQ
Transformational Outcomes
The best predictors of “outstanding achievement”?
•Zest
•Grit
•Self-control
•Social intelligence
•Gratitude
•Optimism
•Curiosity
University of Pennsylvania Research
Packages go to people. The growth is where the people are..
Alternate Models, Challenges, and Questions