World View Summer Opportunities for 2011-2012

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MEMORANDUM
To:                 World View Partners
From:            Robert Phay
Date:             May 17, 2011
SUBJECT:  Summer Opportunities and 2011-12 School Year

          As June graduations close the school year, World View offers several ideas for the summer and ways to start the 2011-12 academic year with an international focus. 

Trip to Korea and Mongolia:  On July 2 I will travel to Korea and Mongolia for 2 ½ weeks.  If you have schools (elementary, middle, high, or early college) that would like to connect with me, World View will send them lesson plans on Korea and Mongolia, pictures and geographic information, several emails during the trip, and a post card mailed from Mongolia.  I also will be happy to take a school’s “Flat Stanley” or other small mascot as a companion, as several of you sent on trips to Antarctica, Peru, Cambodia, and South Africa.  If you would like one of your schools to “join” me, please notify Katharine at klaco@unc.edu or 919-962-9264.

Summer TV and Reading Assignment:  World View would like to give you, your colleagues, and your students a summer assignment.  Fareed Zakaria, editor of TIME Magazine and author of the highly regarded book, The Post-American World, hosts an hour-long program on CNN called “GPS.” GPS looks comprehensively at foreign affairs and global issues that impact our lives.  We recommend that you watch this program every Sunday (10:00am and repeated at 1:00pm) to keep you thinking globally.  Finally, look for the July 2011 issue of World View’s Global Updates for summer reading recommendations from the World View staff.

I hope these efforts will keep you connected to global issues this summer and start your classrooms on an international note for the next academic year. In fall 2011 World View will offer our annual K-12 Global Education Symposium on “Peace and Conflict: Ten Years After 9-11” (October 19-20).  A flyer with registration form is attached so that you can register a team from your district or school.  This program has filled early the last five years, so register now to guarantee spaces for your team. Registrations fees are not due until the program, but you are welcome to pay now to avoid reverting funds.

Best wishes as you wrap up the 2010-11 school year.

Encl:   World View K-12 Global Education Symposium Flyer

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Katharine Laco, Assistant Program Manager

World View

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

CB 8011

Chapel Hill, NC 27599-8011