Educational Leaders Without Borders Flagstaff Seminar Educational Leaders Without Borders August 1, 2017

We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this conundrum of life and history, there is such a thing as being too late. Martin Luther King, April 4, 1967

161 million children under the age of 5 do not attend primary school 758 million people who are illiterate 13% of world’s population lives on $1.90 per day Global population - 8.5 billion by 2030 6th wave of mass extinction of species

Social Environment Economic

http://en.unesco.org/gem-report/report/2016/education-people-and-planet-creating-sustainable-futures-all/page

1. Knowledge in one discipline 2. Application within discipline 3. Application across disciplines 4. Application to real-world predictable situations 5. Application to real-world unpredictable situations

What can Leaders do? Polices and Practices Instructional Leadership Cultivate Empathy Student Well-being Learner-centered pedagogies Citizenship

From the standpoint of the child, the great waste in the school comes from his inability to utilize the experiences he gets outside the school in any complete and free way within the school itself; while, on the other hand, he is unable to apply in daily life what he is learning at school. That is the isolation of the school-its isolation from life. John Dewey, KDP Laureate Guiding Princes

If we teach today's students as we did yesterday's, we are robbing them of tomorrow.   — John Dewey, KDP Laureate