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This year, international education work in Ohio is addressing multiple levels of the system through the efforts of many partners. Selected superintendents and principals will have an opportunity to host their counterparts from Jilin province in China in October 2009 and to visit them in the spring of 2010 through a job shadowing program. The International Education Advisory Committee (IEAC) will be holding their second statewide summit on October 30. The IEAC has awarded grants of $2000 to five schools for international education projects. Superintendents representing the IEAC will be presenting a session on international education opportunities and challenges at the Ohio School Boards Conference in November. Teachers and university faculty will take part in a Global Institute at Kent State University in August. It will focus on global issues, instruction and incorporation of technology. Teachers attending will receive two documents: a curriculum tool, Ohio Teachers Going Global, and Connecting Ohio Classrooms to the World, a document on collaborations. The Ohio Afterschool Network will be kicking off a new initiative to integrate international education into its programming with an event in Cincinnati in late August. After the completion of a detailed international benchmarking study, academic content standards are being revised.
Contact information: Donna Nesbitt Donna.Nesbitt@ode.state.oh.us
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