Sessions
Building Leadership for Global Education at the iEARN Conference
Eddie Conger
International Leadership of Texas
After serving 20 years as a United States Marine Corps Infantry Officer and traveling to numerous countries throughout the world, I fully recognize the critical importance of ensuring our children receive the highest quality education that is humanly possible. As a successful principal and now superintendent, I know from experience that...Read Full Bio
Eddie Conger
After serving 20 years as a United States Marine Corps Infantry Officer and traveling to numerous countries throughout the world, I fully recognize the critical importance of ensuring our children receive the highest quality education that is humanly possible. As a successful principal and now superintendent, I know from experience that when students are held to high expectations for both academic excellence and appropriate civil behavior, they will rise to that high standard. At ILTexas, your child will be given an incredible opportunity to develop and model servant leadership and to master three languages - English, Spanish and Chinese. I encourage you to enroll your child in a safe, secure and nurturing learning environment where they will continue to grow as ladies and gentlemen, where all students will be held to that same high standard, and where they will be prepared for the highly competitive, international world.
Session Description
Building Leadership for Global Education Round Table will focus on current projects at International Leadership of Texas (ILTexas) that address this critical need. Participants can share their education organizations other innovative programming.
What will educators learn and be able to do at the end of the session?
Session Goals and inspiration to others: To encourage sharing of best practices, challenges, ideas, mission overlaps and possible partnerships with similar organizations to continue to develop leadership in the area of global education. To help new schools starting out in the global education sphere with support.
Additional Session Information
The Roundtable will focus on these Sub topics for 20 minutes each:
- Service Learning through Collaboration (ILTexas Others Before Self projects required by all students)
- Diversity and Inclusion in Global Education (ILTexas student population data- very diverse)
- Project Design and Facilitation (ILTexas private school for international students, trilingual program at Texas schools, IL Texas China schools- designing, planning, building, running them)
- Impact of Projects and Exchanges (Our upcoming school exchanges with schools abroad, our international summer camps, teacher interns studying at ILTexas, etc.)
- Teaching and Learning Strategies (ILTexas mission to focus on Global Ed in all grades and subjects and hiring many international teachers)