ZIS Voices Live
Shaping Tomorrow: Educating Global Citizens for a Changing World
Saturday, October 5, 2024 - 09:00-14:00
Join us for a collaborative community workshop designed to explore emerging challenges and brainstorm solutions together. This is your chance to share your insights and shape the future of our community. By harnessing the collective wisdom of our members, we'll gain valuable input to guide future strategy development discussions.
Students, alumni, parents, employees and Director, Elsa Hernández-Donohue, will start the conversations in panel discussions around the following topics:
- Empowering Student Well-Being
- Future Ready Education
- Tools of Change
All attendees are invited to actively participate and share their insights during the day.
Elsa Hernández-Donohue
ZIS Director
David McIntosh
Facilitator
Panel 1: Empowering Student Well-Being
Integrating Social Emotional Learning, Cultivating Integrity and Ethics, and Putting Heart at the CoreStudents today feel more pressure than ever. While cell phones and social media have made this generation of students more connected than ever, it has also led to profound increases in stress, anxiety, depression, and social isolation. Balancing academic demands with physical activity and social outlets is important, especially in schools like ours. Creating an environment with physical and psychological safety, and with support resources that students will use, demands new approaches and commitments.
Our panelists will examine what changes are creating the most impact and what we can do to make our students feel safe, strong, and empowered.
Speakers
Suchi Bansal
Katie Richardson-Mott
Regina Gonzalez Hernandez
Panel 2: Future-Ready Education
Integrating STEM, AI, and Sustainability
Both the natural world and the technological world are changing more rapidly than anyone could have expected. Climate change will affect where people live, how they work, and what their daily lives look like. And AI is changing the nature of work, scholarship, and social relations. No matter what fields students eventually go into, they need to have a solid, open-ended understanding of the STEM disciplines. Sustainability, both environmental and economic, depends on leaders who can integrate scientific awareness with pragmatic social engineering.
We will discuss how education can prepare students with the intellectual agility to be lifelong learners who can be engaged with their changing environments
Speakers
Alison Martin
Dan Harburg (Class of 2004)
John Northridge
Panel 3: Tools of Change
Equipping Students for Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Because of the explosion of connectedness and shared knowledge, young people today are forces for change like never before. Around the world, young people are creating and leading social movements. In their laboratories and on their computers, they are bringing innovations to market. But success depends on having the right mix of concept and execution, innovation and organization. Entrepreneurs most often have a hard-to-find mix of communication skills, marketing strategy, and organizational instincts.
Empowering students to bring their ideas for change to market doesn’t necessarily require an MBA-type curriculum. We’ll explore how a mix of education, exposure, and hands-on experience can empower this generation to have more impact, and sooner, than previous ones did.
Speakers
Essa Al Saleh
Olle Lundberg (Class of 1990)
Guy Spier
Graphic recording will be done by Nick Abadzis (Class of 1982).