The 2019 Global Leadership Summit
Hosted by ASCD and GlobalEd Events
The 4th Annual Global Leadership Summit
Location:
McCormick Place
2301 S. Martin Luther King Drive
Chicago, Illinois
Room: W187abc
Friday, Mar 15, 2019, 08:30 AM
McCormick Place, Chicago, IL, USA
About the Summit
- Develop the capacity to lead classrooms and educational systems that foster in students the will and the skill to tackle problems of real-world significance locally and globally.
- Discover effective resources, best practices, and new ideas that can help students develop empathy, perspective recognition, critical thinking, problem-solving, communication and collaboration skills, and other competencies that students need to succeed in an interconnected world.
- Devise a plan of action to advocate and implement global learning initiatives.
- Network with innovative and inspiring teachers, principals, district leaders, thought leaders, and education organizations from around the country and the world committed to educating students for a diverse, global society.
Agenda
8:00 a.m Coffee and sign-in
8:30 a.m Welcoming Remarks
8:45 a.m Opening Keynote
Supporting Student Agency in a Rapidly Changing World
9:30 a.m Panel 1
Leading from the Classroom: Inspiring Students as Global Change Agents
10:30 a.m Break
10:45 a.m Panel 2
Enacting Systems-Level Change to Support Global Learning
11:45 a.m Debrief
12:00 p.m Lunch (provided)
12:30 p.m Student Speakers
1:00 p.m Design Challenge
3:15 p.m Closing Remarks
3:30 p.m Event closing
Featured Speakers
Mohamed Abdel-Kader
Mohamed Abdel-Kader is executive director of the Stevens Initiative at the Aspen Institute. He previously served in the administration of President Barack Obama as Deputy Assistant Secretary for International and Foreign Language Education at the U.S. Department of Education. In that role, Abdel-Kader was responsible for encouraging and promoting the study of foreign languages and the study other countries’ cultures at the elementary, secondary, and postsecondary levels in the United States. Prior to his government service, Abdel-Kader held roles at Georgetown University and George Mason University and has advised a variety of clients on organizational strategy, doing business in emerging markets, intercultural communication, and cultural competency in international philanthropy. Abdel-Kader is a trustee of the Longview Foundation for International Education & World Affairs.
Seth Brady
Seth Brady
Naperville Central High School/Project Director, Illinois Global Scholar
Seth Brady has been an educator at Naperville Central High School in Illinois since 2004. His course load typically includes sections on comparative religions, world cultures, sociology, and capstone. In 2013, Brady was named a Teachers for Global Classrooms Fellow by the U.S. Department of State and studied religion and culture in Indonesia. This fellowship led to the creation of Illinois Global Scholar, a statewide global education certificate that awards merit on the state transcript to high school students who demonstrate global competence. Brady is an author of the Religious Studies Supplement to the C3, a finalist for Illinois State Teacher of the Year, and winner of the Dream Big Teacher Challenge. He lives in Naperville with his wife, Allison, and their three school-age children.
Helga Fasciano
Terry Godwaldt
Lucy Gray
Lucy Gray is the co-founder of the Global Education Conference Network, a 27,000 member community of practice focused on connecting educators and organizations around the world. Lucy previously taught elementary grade levels in Chicago Public Schools and middle school computer science at the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools. She also has worked at the University of Chicago’s Urban Education Institute and the Center for Elementary Mathematics and Science Education and currently serves as the Director of Educational Technology at North Shore Country Day School.
Lucy is also an educational innovation consultant working with schools, organizations, and corporations. In her consulting life, she has led CoSN’s Leadership for Mobile Learning initiative, developed strategic plans and content for companies, provided professional development coaching to school districts, and presented internationally at numerous conferences. Lucy is the recipient of ISTE’s Making It Happen award and the Apple Distinguished Educator and Google Certified Innovator distinctions.
Dana Mortenson
Dana Mortenson is the co-founder and chief executive officer of World Savvy, a national education nonprofit working to educate and engage youth as responsible global citizens. World Savvy supports change agents in K–12 education to create more inclusive, adaptive schools that ensure all young people can develop the skills and dispositions they need to thrive in a more diverse, interconnected world. World Savvy programs provide support at three critical levels to deeply integrate global competence into teaching, learning, and culture: student engagement, teacher capacity, and school and district leadership support. Since 2002, Mortenson has led the organization through significant national expansion, reaching more than 655,000 middle and high school youth and 4,500 educators across 25 states and 5 countries, from offices based in Minneapolis, San Francisco, and New York. She is an Ashoka Fellow, was named one of The New Leaders Council’s 40 Under 40 Progressive American Leaders, and was winner of the Tides Foundation’s Jane Bagley Lehman award for excellence in public advocacy in 2014. She is a frequent speaker on global education and social entrepreneurship at high profile convenings, including Harvard University School of Education; 21st Century Schools Consortium; Nebraska Global Education Consortium; TABS/NAIS Global Symposium; TEDx Fargo; the Ashoka Future Forum; the Latin America Changemaker Education Summit in Bogota, Colombia; and SXSWedu. World Savvy’s work has been featured in The New York Times, on Edutopia, and on a range of local and national media outlets covering education and innovation.
Matt Nink
Jim Reese
Jessica Stovall
Jessica Stovall is a doctoral student in the Graduate School of Education at Stanford. She studies Race, Inequality, and Language in Education (RILE), and she is working to interrupt systemic racial achievement disparities. A recipient of the 2014 Fulbright Distinguished Award in Teaching, Stovall spent a semester in Wellington, New Zealand, studying educational debts between white and indigenous Māori students. Since her return, she has embarked on two projects—a comprehensive teacher professional development program and a workbook for teachers—focused on eliminating the racial predictability of student achievement. Before Stanford, Stovall was an English teacher and instructional coach for 11 years, and she is currently the teacher’s assistant for the Stanford Teacher Education Program (STEP) English Curriculum and Instruction sequence. In her spare time, she serves on the ASCD Global Education Advisory Board and creates professional development programs around equity for school districts.
Erin Towns
Erin Towns is a 19-year veteran social studies teacher at Edward Little High School in Maine. Fiercely dedicated to global education, she uses professional fellowship experiences in Japan, Kazakhstan, China, Germany, and Ethiopia to help Maine students investigate the world, examine cultural perspectives, and apply knowledge learned to take direct action on global contemporary issues. Students create resources for authentic local, state, national, and international audiences to address social and environmental problems. Towns was recently selected as one of the 2018 National Geographic Teacher Program Fellows for her commitment to geographic and global education.
Kelisa Wing
Kelisa Wing is a professional development specialist with the Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) in Alexandria, VA. She is the 2017 DoDEA State Teacher of the Year, the 2017 UMUC Outstanding Alumnae of the Year, and a 2016 ASCD Emerging Leader. She is the author of Weeds & Seeds: How to Stay Positive in the Midst of Life's Storms and Promises and Possibilities: Dismantling the School to Prison Pipeline. Wing holds a bachelor's degree in English from The University of Maryland University College, a master’s degree in secondary education, and an educational specialist degree with a concentration in curriculum, instruction and educational leadership from the University of Phoenix. She is currently enrolled at Walden University in the doctoral program.
Featured Student Speakers
Mahie Gopalka is a first-year student at Northwestern University. She is currently studying Cognitive Science on the pre-medical track. Her project was focused on the nature of possession states in India and their connection to both mental illness and the Hindu religion.
Jonah Klein-Collins is a senior at Naperville Central High School. His project addresses the dilemma of how to resolve the Syrian refugee education crisis in Jordan. Jonah has not yet committed but plans to study at a four-year university next year. In his free time, he enjoys swimming and playing water polo.
Katherine Krupincka is a senior at Naperville Central High School. Her capstone project was centered around adolescent suicide in South Korea. She investigated the best ways to address the issue and ultimately created a mental health PSA video to be shared across social media. After high school, she plans to double major in accounting and international business, though hasn’t yet decided on a college.
Laasya Poola is a senior at Naperville Central High School. Her project topic is sustainable structures of foreign aid in Haiti. After high school, she plans to attend the University of Chicago to study economics.