March 17-18, 2006

Hosted by Glenbrook South High School, Glenview, Illinois

Preliminary Program

Friday, March 17:

Noon—1:00 PM

 

Registration and Lunch

 

1:00 -- 3:30 PM

 

Glenbrook North and South Classroom Visits

 

Student Forum: Rwanda Today with Felicia Middlebrooks, co-anchor Morning Program for CBS Radio/WBBM Newsradio 780

Students will preview Middlebrooks’ recently produced documentary on the aftermath of the Rwandan Genocide and participate in guided discussion with Middlebrooks and teachers from Evanston High School and the Glenbrook High Schools.

4:00 - 5:00 PM

Pilot School Meeting

3:30 - 5:30 PM

 “Happy Hour” & Resource Fair for networking and curriculum sharing and vendor visits

Resources and representatives from the following organizations will be available:

 5:30—7:00 PM

Dinner: Lyceum

Keynote: Michael Lev, Business Editor and former Beijing and Tokyo Correspondent, Chicago Tribune

Saturday, March 18:

8:00 – 8:30 AM

Continental breakfast and registration

8:30—9:30 AM Plenary 1

Dr. Edwin Gragert, Executive Director, iEARN, Inc. International Education and Resource Network

9:45 – 10:45

Concurrent sessions

1) Internationalizing Constitution Day
            John Sullivan, Glenbrook South High School

2) Teaching the Middle East

            Jerry Hoynes, Glenbrook North High School
            Aaron Becker, Evanston High School
            Sahar Tawfiq, Fulbright Fellow, Cairo, Egypt

3) Globalization101.org, a free resource for teaching about globalization

            Rebecca Weiner, Center for Strategic and International Studies,

            Washington, DC

4) Organizing Student Exchanges/Trips

            Heidi Lechner. Glenbrook South High School
           

10:45-11:00

Break with coffee and refreshments in the resource area

11:00 – 12:00

Concurrent sessions:

1) Illinois Capitol Forum Workshop

            Kelly Keogh, Normal Community High School & Co-Lead Teacher for Illinois             Capitol Forum 

2) Thinking Globally: Effective Lessons for Teaching about the Interdependent World Economy
            Helen Roberts, University of Illinois at Chicago

3) Best Practices in Global Collaboration

            Dr. Edwin Gragert, Executive Director, iEARN, New York

4) Northbrook Symphony (title pending)

          Larry Rapchak, Northbrook Symphony   

          Hilary Rosenthal, Glenbrook North High School

Noon—1:30

Lunch & Plenary 2
The Story of the Chicago to India Direct Route : problem-solving on a global scale

Thomas Aichele, Managing Director, Passenger Sales, Chicago, American Airlines

1:30—2:30

Concurrent sessions

1) Indian Identities: Identity Politics in Contemporary India

            Steve Goldberg, Oak Park River Forest High School

2) History and Art of the Pacific Rim

            Adam Markgraf, Evanston High School

3) Digital Kiosk: Technologies to augment language instruction
          Jorge Zamona, Glenbrook South High School
          Mark Bauman, Glenbrook South High School

4) World Studies

          Sue Levine Kelly, Glenbrook South High School

2:30 -- 2:45

Break with coffee and refreshments in the resource area

2:45 – 3:45

Concurrent Sessions

1) Introduction of Public Health from a World Perspective

            Rebecca Liebman, University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Public Health

2) Teaching the European Union

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, European Union Center             

3) Introducing Mandarin Chinese to the Language Program

4) Understanding the Global World: preparing students to read, write, and think critically in the study of global history and culture.

          Howard Romanek, Glenbrook High Schools

Conclusion

Global Studies Forum 2007 will take place in at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois, through the support of the Peoria World Affairs Council.