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!)