Crucial Conversations in Educational Leadership
Crucial Conversations in Educational Leadership
Conference Resources
Dr. Neil Bolick- Worldview Organization
Globalization & K-12 Education: Worldview Resources for Educators
World View, a public service program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, equips K-12 and community college educators with global knowledge, best practices, and resources to prepare students to live in an interconnected and diverse world.World View brings together university faculty, regional experts, and global educators from across the country and organizes professional development opportunities including seminars, conferences and symposiums, online courses, and study visits abroad. During these programs, participants immerse themselves with global knowledge and skills in order to integrate global education in all areas of the curriculum and at every grade level.
Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds is the fifth installment in the National Intelligence Council’s series aimed at providing a framework for thinking about the future. As with previous editions, we hope that this report will stimulate strategic thinking by identifying critical trends and potential discontinuities. We distinguish between megatrends, those factors that will likely occur under any scenario, and game-changers, critical variables whose trajectories are far less certain. Finally, as our appreciation of the diversity and complexity of various factors has grown, we have increased our attention to scenarios or alternative worlds we might face.
Futuristics in K-12 Classrooms: A challenge for globalization: Teaching young learners how to scan the horizons. Our schools can help here in three major ways: (1) We can teach youngsters how to distinguish worthy from poor or even dangerous forecasts; (2) we can nurture optimism concerning the future, as this is a vital source of America’s “can do!” spirit (the envy of nations everywhere); and (3) we can upgrade their awareness of tomorrow’s job market and employer expectations of them, the better to improve their chances of success.
Arthur B. Shostak, The School Administrator, February 2008, Number 2, Vol. 65.
Education and Skills for Life. Underlying this report are the findings from the analysis of a large body of internationally comparable education data – The Learning Curve Data Bank (LCDB). First compiled in 2012, the LCDB has been updated in early 2014 to include, among other indicators, the latest test results from: › the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) › the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) › the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) › the initial output from the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC), which looks at cognitive skill levels across the population.
We used to think that people who thought the Earth was flat were uneducated. But Thomas Friedman's best-selling book, The World Is Flat (2005), helped us to understand that if the world is not exactly flat, then it is deeply interconnected as never before. Friedman's book described how technology and the fall of trade barriers have led to the integration of markets and nations, and enabled individuals, companies, and nation-states to reach around the world faster and cheaper than ever before. We see evidence of this interconnectedness in our lives every day—from the food we eat to the coffee we drink to the clothes we wear. Sports teams recruit talent from around the globe, and the iPhones we use to communicate are manufactured in more than 19 different countries.
World-Class Education, Vivien Stewart, ASCD (Feb 2012) ISBN-13:978-1-4166-1374-9.
Global Futures is a leading think tank founded in 1990 that advises business and government on future trends. James Canton has advised three White House Administrations, the National Science Foundation and MIT's Media Lab, Europe.Increasing complexity in the future will continue to challenge organizations to better anticipate change and adapt faster. Better preparing organizations to meet the challenges of the future is central to our DNA. At IGF we refer to this capability as Future-Readiness. Videos and summaries of global trends and organizational readiness issues are presented.
Dr. David Stegall, Superintendent Newton-Conover Schools
“Key Considerations for Technology Integration and Engagement”
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