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From the Executive Director 33 37 41 Inside Vol. XXIV No. 1 Fall 2012 From The Executive Director Inside What’s New? As the incoming Executive Director, I want to extend my warmest greetings to • New website you and your schools! After a very busy period of transition with Mary Virginia • Staff Development2 Sanchez, who led the Association so successfully for twenty-three years, I am Advisory Council officially in the role since July 1st! I am looking forward to networking with • 1st GIN (Global Issues4 respected friends and colleagues in the region, to forging new relationships, and Network) Conference more importantly, to supporting your efforts towards improved educational “Younity” opportunities for the students that we serve. 5 2012 Award Recipients We are starting out the year with exciting • Paul G. Orr 10 new initiatives geared towards enhancing • MS Global Leadership communication, involving your schools • Community Service more directly in the staff development initiatives organized by the Tri-Association, COPH (Children of Haiti and providing your students with a powerful Project)- Why You Need to leadership opportunity! Please refer to the Become Involved! 10 section, “What’s New”, for details. Their Passion Earns Them the Mary Virginia Sanchez, This issue also features our award recipients Award – ATS article Executive Director 1989-2012 for this year, news from around the region, 13 Sonia Keller, Regional News & Executive Director, July 1st, 2012 important recruiting information and thought-provoking articles written by three Calendars of the consultants who will be with us at our Annual Educators’ Conference 14 coming up next month. Articles • “Taming the Wild Texts” by Pam Allyn 20 A very special thank you to our Sponsors, Corporate and Associate Corporate • “Forest and Trees” Members for supporting our newsletter through their ads. by Jennifer Abram30s • “Tribes” by Judith Fenton In a few weeks we will convene in Cartagena for the 31st Annual Educators’ 33 Conference. I look forward to seeing many of you in one of Colombia’s most Nuts & Bolts beautiful cities. My best wishes for a very successful school year! • AP Workshop35s • Member Associations Sonia Keller, Ed. D. 37 • 2012-13 Recruiting Fairs Executive Director • Information Page 40 41 1 WHAT’S NEW ? New Tri-Association Website goal is to use this website as the main tool for information about all Tri-Association business so I A dynamic state-of-the-art webpage features need your help in order to keep the site updated! modules that will enable us to communicate efficiently and collaborate across the region. The Our new web page was developed by the web modules include a news and forms manager, solutions company, finalsite. This project was eNotify, school/staff directories, a Job Search Board possible as a result of their sponsorship, and and a communications portal called (Tri-Collab). the technical support provided by Ms. Florencia A revolving photo gallery and the flags from the Fernandez, the Webmaster at the American School countries that make up the Tri-Association, serve as Foundation of Monterrey. I am indebted to Rob a colorful backdrop to the home page. A special DiMartino, one of the Directors at finalsite for his thank you to the schools that sent pictures for this support, to Florencia for her technical assistance, gallery. Please note that we still have a few schools and to The American School Foundation of that need to send in their directory updates. Please Monterrey for their flexibility with this project! let us hear from you if you are in this group! Our Please visit us at www.tri-association.org 2 3 Staff Development Advisory • Christine Brown Council (SDAC) Deputy Head, The Carol Morgan School, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic The SDAC is a group of educational leaders from • Ana Maria Duque, Ph.D. the region who will work directly with the Executive Curriculum Coordinator, Colegio Bolivar, Cali, Director and serve as a liaison between your schools Colombia and the Association. This group will provide feedback • Dan Yamasaki on Staff Development initiatives, help set the focus Grade 5 Teacher , Colegio Panamericano, for conferences, and support sustainability for new Bucaramanga, Colombia implementations within the region. Members were • Tom Lickety selected based on an application process that went to Secondary Director for Curriculum & Instruction, all of the schools in the Tri-Association. Escuela Internacional Sampedrana, San Pedro Sula, Honduras A warm welcome to the • Monica Sanchez SDAC Members for 2012-14 Special Services Coordinator, Marian Baker School, San Jose, Costa Rica • Leah Yepez • Julie Villand I.B. Diploma and Curriculum Coordinator, Fundacion Director of Instructional Programs, American School Colegio Americano de Quito, Ecuador Foundation of Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Mexico 4 MISSION To empower young people to collaborate locally, regionally and globally in order to create sustainable solutions for global issues. “YOUNITY” The 1st GIN Conference in our region will be hosted by the Country Day School in San Jose, Costa Rica in April 19-22, 2013. (√) Mark your calendars and start mobilizing your students to participate in this opportunity to connect and empower by learning and addressing our most pressing global issues! Learn how you can involve your school in this initiative geared towards mobilizing our youth locally on behalf of seeking solutions to global problems! In the following article Linda Sills, the GIN Program Developer shares practical information on GIN, and how YOUR school can become involved! Announcing the first Tri-Association’s Global Issues Network Conference How do I get information about GIN efforts already “YOUNITY” underway around the world? Go to http://www.global-issues-network.org To be hosted by Country Day School in San Jose, Costa Rica April 19-21, 2013 A student alumnus of GIN talks honestly about getting involved- Please watch and share! Global Issues Networks (GINs) are successfully http://www.global-issues-network.org/video/ connecting students as they research and seek elicia-cousins-participates sustainable solutions to global issues around the world-currently in Asia, Africa, Europe, the Middle East, How do we begin to prepare for first GIN Conference North America and South America. in our region? It is good to begin by reviewing your efforts to date GINs are groups of students and teachers, working by addressing environmental/global issues with your internationally, to develop solutions for global issues. school community. Then you can begin to form a GIN GINs challenge students and teachers to immerse group made up of students and teachers. You will themselves in a chosen issue and to collaborate with choose one or two projects for your presentation/s. peers and other international members to create You will closely monitor and document your efforts networks, to think and act critically and creatively. in the coming months. For many of you, it will not be GINs work towards creating innovative sustainable creating more work but celebrating and sharing your solutions to address real-world global issues. ongoing efforts. 5 How do we prepare to attend the conference? students needs to make a short (2 minutes or less) film The GIN group should meet regularly. Schools are about their project to be shown at the conference and invited to send a GIN team (or two) to the conference. posted to the website. Each team is made up of 2-6 students from Grades 7-12, so the maximum number of students a school What is the format of the student/team could send would be 12. Two adult advisers must presentation? accompany your school’s students, whether you send 1 Based on an essential question. one or two teams. A third team may be possible if the 2 Interactive-wireless will be available in every room numbers allow closer to the end of registration. 3 40 minutes in length divided into presentation, We will accept a total of 400 students and advisers to activities and discussion participate in the conference. What are the other components of the conference? 4 Keynote speakers from around the world will also What are the key responsibilities of the team? present and meet with students. Each student team is asked to prepare an interactive 5 Presentations from all student teams and speakers workshop (wireless will be provided at the conference) involved in global issues. on their project/ efforts to address a global issue 6 Alumni (recent graduates) panel will also present with sustainable solutions. The team will present this on their path to creating ways to address Global workshop to 20-30 other delegates. Also, each team of Issues. 6 7 Global Village groups will be formed to allow for • Registration is still being worked out but assume important open discussions on the issues and the it will be very fair. solutions. This also strengthens the networks. • Registration will open in January. (400 participants 8 Global Issues Fair will offer students the chance maximum) to talk with people creating change in the • All meals will be provided community. • All local transportation will be provided 9 Film Festival will screen the film made by each 11 More background on the Global Issues Network? team on their project so that every team’s efforts Inspired by J.F. Rischard in his book, High Noon: are shared with the entire delegation. These films Twenty Global Problems and Twenty Years to Solve will then be posted on our GIN/TRI-ASSOCIATION Them, the GIN Network has grown to become a website to be constructed. dynamic, engaging, and relevant forum through 10 Registration Costs? which students are working together to address Every effort is being made to hold costs down so some of the weightiest issues facing human that the focus is on the process and experience of societies and our delicate global ecosystem. With GIN. support from the Tri-Association leadership and • Hotel cost will be held down with breakfast the involvement of GIN organizers from other included regions of the world, the first GIN Conference in 7 our region will provide an opportunity for regional groups and to inform them about the GIN network schools to connect with each other as well as with and our upcoming future regional conference.
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