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The Friday Institute for Educational Innovation
Cultivating World-Class Leaders in Education
Dr. Hiller A. Spires
September 4, 20144th Biennial NC Summit on US/China Education
Newlit.org
What does it mean to be World Class?
The Friday Institute for Educational Innovation
• “Ranked among the world’s best; of the highest caliber.”
• “A heart and mind for wanting to learn.”好学心
How Are We Cultivating World Class
Leaders in Education?
The Friday Institute for Educational Innovation
Teacher
• Innovative Professional Development
New Literacies & Global Learning Graduate Program
Launched in Fall 2009
5 Teacher Cohorts Have Graduated (n = 92)
8 Chinese teachers from Beijing Royal School enrolled for 2014-2015
The Friday Institute for Educational Innovation
July 2009 Raleigh, NC
June 2010Cambridge,
MA
November 2011
Beijing, China
July 2011Friday
Institute
July 2012Raleigh, NC
March 2013Beijing, China
July 2013Providence, RI
Ask a CompellingQuestion
Gather &Analyze
Information
CreativelySynthesizeInformatio
nCritically
Evaluate & Revise
Publish Share
Act
Design Studio Showcase
A Project Based Inquiry Approach to Learning.
Adapted from Spires, Lee, Young, Leu, Coiro, & Castek, 2009
Global competence: the capacity and disposition to understand and act on issues of global significance (CCSSO & Asia Society, 2011)
How Are We Cultivating World Class
Leaders in Education?
The Friday Institute for Educational Innovation
Teacher
• Innovative Professional Development
• Insightful Research
Having Our Say: US & Chinese Teachers’ Perceptions
Spires, Morris & Zhang, 2012
Spires, Morris & Zhang, 2012
Having Our Say: US & Chinese Teachers’ Perceptions
How Are We Cultivating World Class
Leaders in Education?
The Friday Institute for Educational Innovation
• Sustained Global Collaborations
Teacher
• Innovative Professional Development
• Insightful Research
• CED Delegation to Beijing - 2007
• US Asia Conference Board - 2008
• NC/China Summit - 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014
• New Literacies Institutes at Beijing Royal School - 2010, 2013
• BRS Student Summer/Winter Camps - 2011- present
• Beijing Inst. for Science & Technology - 2011
• Chinese Scholars J. Zhang 2009, Dan Li 2013, Yuan Chan 2014
• Suzhou North America High School, Suzhou, China 2014 - 2016
• Disciplinary Literacy for Deeper Learning MOOC-Ed - 2014
Connecting to the World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uuu-cNND1eg
Image from COSN
“Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choiceand discipline.” Jim Collins
(Thank You!)