Organizations

Our Life on the Border CyberFair project (www.lifeontheborder.com )is a successful example of project based learning. One hundred students from the Tech Center and 300 students enrolled in French classes researched their Franco American Culture and published their findings on the web.

International Schools CyberFair, now in its twelfth year, is an award-winning, authentic learning program used by schools and youth organizations around the world. Students conduct research about their local communities and then publish their findings on the World Wide Web. Recognition is given to schools for the best projects in each of eight categories: local leaders, businesses, community organizations, historical landmarks, environment, music, art, and local specialties.

This White House endorsed program encourages youth to become ambassadors for their own local communities by working collaboratively with community members and using technology tools to publish a Web site that displays what they have learned. The annual contest has involved more than one million students from 4,500 schools across 100 countries—and is considered the longest running international education cyber-event of its kind.

Competition judging also takes place online. Students evaluate each others projects by using a Web-based evaluation tool designed by Global SchoolNet. The top forty entries are reviewed by international judges, to determine the winners. Winners of International Schools CyberFair are announced each Spring at a event that is global in itself, with hundreds of schools participating via Internet.

Learn more at http://www.globalschoolnet.org/GSH/cf/index.html

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The Contemporary Dance Concert is a selection of undergraduate student choreography performed and often lit by students. Here is a small recap of the production from Spring 2009.
www.csulb.edu/dance The Department of Dance at California State University, Long Beach is committed to artistic and academic excellence that promotes the value of dance for the individual and society. Our curriculum emphasizes modern dance performance and composition with supporting course work in ballet, jazz, tap, world dance, and dance theory. The course of study embraces creative, historical, and scientific perspectives of dance. The Department is also committed to the artistic enhancement of the campus and community through practical/theoretical dance courses for the general university student, performances, and residencies. In addition, the department avidly promotes the profession through creative and scholarly research, leadership in professional organizations, and participation in dance festivals/conferences at the regional, national, and international level.
Department of Dance Chair Cyrus Parker-Jeannette
Cinematography and Editing by Gregory R.R. Crosby,
CSULB College of the Arts
Donald Para, Dean
Jay Kvapil, Associate Dean
Department of Dance Faculty
Karen Clippinger
Colleen Dunagan
Lorin Johnson
Keith Johnson
Dori Levy
Susan McLain
Sophie Monat
Cyrus Parker-Jeannette, chair
Andrew Vaca

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In 1996, high school students from Oceanside, California helped 80 year-old Sister Catherine Louise preserve a life time of historic information about the California missions.

International Schools CyberFair, now in its 15th year, is an award-winning, authentic learning program used by schools and youth organizations from 109 countries around the world. Students conduct research about their local communities and then publish their findings on the World Wide Web. Recognition is given to schools for the best projects in each of eight categories: local leaders, businesses, community organizations, historical landmarks, environment, music, art, and local specialties.

This White House endorsed program encourages youth to become ambassadors for their own local communities by working collaboratively with community members and using technology tools to publish a Web site that displays what they have learned. The annual contest has involved more than two million students from 4,500 schools across 109 countries—and is considered the longest running international education cyber-event of its kind.

Competition judging also takes place online. Students evaluate each others projects by using a Web-based evaluation tool designed by Global SchoolNet. The top forty entries are reviewed by international judges, to determine the winners. Winners of International Schools CyberFair are announced each Spring at a event that is global in itself, with hundreds of schools participating via Internet.

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* Chair: Young-Chul Chang, Professor, Kyung Hee University,Korea
* Speaker:
- Gary Mathews, Director, Investors in People, UK
- Harnek Singh, Vice President & Director, Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd., Singapore
- Liu Zheng Rong, Senior Vice President, HR of LANXESS AG, Germany
- Duck-Jin Lee, Vice President, Yuhan-Kimberly, Korea
- Young-Hyun Lee, Senior Research Fellow, Korea Research Institute for Vocational Education and Training, Korea
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The skills, knowledge and expertise of workers determine organizations’ competitive advantage. Every organization is challenged by the pace of change, technological advances, shortening product life-cycles, and changing customer expectations. Human resources can make the difference among organizations with the same access to equipment, technology and facilities.
The HRD certification system is a straightforward, proven framework for delivering business improvement through people. It offers organizations a systematic process to review their human resources practices, develop staff and improve training effectiveness.

Investors in People Standard (Investors in people UK) is the scheme of the UK and the People Developer is Singapore’s quality standard for human resource development. Best HRD (Best Human Resources Developers) is a new attempt being made by Korea to advance its people’s knowledge, skills, attitude, and creativity toward the enhancement of organizations’ capability.

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The Monterey Institute of International Studies and the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) offer students a unique opportunity to apply the professional skills learned at the Monterey Institute in a global, regional or cross-cultural policy environment, while representing the Monterey Institute in a professional context and launching a career in public policy. Selected students work as a junior staff member for a public policy organization such as the U.N.Office for Disarmament Affains in New York, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna, Austria, the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) in Vienna, Austria, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in the Hague, Netherlands, the U.N. Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, Switzerland, among others. For more information: http://www.miis.edu/careers/opportunities/servicesemester and http://cns.miis.edu/edu/internship_ionp.htm

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School’s Out is an education-based charitable organization that tries to enhance our educational offering so that children can climb out of poverty and pursue opportunity, and present more pathways for parents and caregivers to support children along the way.

Schools Out! focuses on two goals to address our challenges in our public elementary schools: (1) that children are better prepared physically, emotionally, and mentally for the next school day, and (2) that parents and care-givers more intensely invest themselves in the well-being of the children.

Schools Out! seeks to achieve these goals through implementing and operating Community Learning Centers at Mary Ford Elementary, Stono Park Elementary, and James Simons Elementary in the Charleston, South Carolina area.

A Community Learning Center provides robust after-school academic, recreation, health, and enrichment components to the enrolled children while creating educational opportunities for the childrens parents and care-givers. A Community Learning Center embraces partnerships with people and organizations that can provide services at the school. A Schools Out! Community Learning Center reinforces the reality that, as the nucleus of every neighborhood, the public elementary schools should be where the community comes together.

To find out more, visit http://www.schoolsoutsc.org/.

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The Transportation and Civil Engineering (TRAC – http://www.trac.net) Program is the hands-on education program of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO). TRAC is made available to secondary schools (high schools and Junior high schools) through regional centers where the Departments of Transportation (DOTs) work in partnership with other government organizations, universities, non-profit organizations, and private industry. At it’s most basic level, TRAC is a program designed for integration into science, math, and social studies classes.

In actual practice, TRAC sends volunteer Transportation professionals into secondary schools with TRAC PAC. This consists of a computer, electronic data collection and analysis instruments, hands-on modeling materials, and more than three dozen activities based on real-world transportation problems.

By engaging students in solving real-world problems, TRAC connects kids to the work world of transportation. And TRAC’s specific focus of improving work force diversity helps resolving one of the most pressing problems faced by this predominately white male profession: how to draw talented women and minorities into the field of transportation.

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Our Song’ by Dala

Dala’s beautiful song called, ‘Our Song’, will unite the country once again in Music Monday this year 2008.

Music Monday is a very special demonstration of our love of music – in our lives and in our schools. On the first Monday of May each year, students and teachers take their music programs outside into the open air of their school grounds or into their communities, to perform a short concert. There are outdoor concerts right across the country from the elementary level right through to secondary schools – some small celebrations, some large. Some will perform on their own; others will collaborate with local schools and organizations. Many community and professional organizations and ensembles are also involved, along with musicians and artists across the country.
Now approaching our fourth year, each year the event grows larger as Music Monday is celebrated in schools and communities throughout Canada. In 2007, more than 1500 schools and organizations participated representing more than 650,000 students, teachers, parents and music lovers everywhere. Music Monday drew 17.5 million measured media impressions and drew upwards of 25,000 visitors to our website each month as we counted down the days.

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Daniel Burrus is one of the world’s leading technology forecasters and business strategists, and is the author of six books, including the highly acclaimed Technotrends, which has been translated into over a dozen languages.

In 1983, Burrus was the first and only futurist to accurately identify the twenty technologies that would drive two decades of revolutionary change. Since then, he has established a worldwide reputation for his exceptional record of predicting the future of technological change and its direct impact on the business world. He has helped hundreds of clients develop successful competitive strategies based on the creative application of leading-edge technologies, and has delivered over 2,000 keynote speeches to corporations, associations, and professional organizations worldwide.

The New York Times has referred to Daniel Burrus as “one of America’s top three business gurus in the highest demand as a speaker.”

Burrus began his career in research even before graduating from college when he became one of the first undergraduates in the nation to direct a federal research grant. He has founded and managed five businesses, two of which were national leaders in their first year. As a highly successful entrepreneur, he knows how to translate research findings into practical business advantages.

Burrus’ client list encompasses a wide range of industries and includes many Fortune 500 companies such as GE, Lucent Technologies, IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, DuPont, AT&T, Toshiba, American Express, Northwestern Mutual, Bell Atlantic, Exxon, and Sara Lee

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Be a part of the solution! WWW.HEALPHILLY.COM
Youth unite to heal their city! The Philadelphia Student Union joins with determined educators, administrators and the community in a campaign to end violence of all forms in Philadelphia Schools. This is just the beginning, join the movement! www.HealPhilly.com

(CORRECTION – Philadelphia Regional Superintendent “Benjamin Wright,” not “White”!) Our apologies, to Mr Wright and Mr White, both amazing men, updates pending!)

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