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Maria Lesser Title: College Board Update and Conversation Description: This session will provide the latest updates on College Board programs and services (including AP, SAT and PSAT/NMSQT) and College Board initiatives for schools in Asia/Pacific. It will also provide an opportunity for discussion and conversation about the programs and their use in your schools.  Please join us and bring your questions and ideas. Biography: María Luisa Lesser is the associate director for International Services at the College Board. Based in New York City, she and her colleagues provide information and support related to College Board programs for schools outside of the United States and Canada. Before this, Maria worked for the College-Level Examination Program (CLEP), a College Board credit-by-exam program, and in the International Education Office of the College Board in Washington, D.C., where was a liaison for international counselors and the advisers of EducationUSA centers, U.S. Department of State-affiliated centers that advise prospective international students on academic opportunities in the United States. Maria joined the College Board in 2001 after serving as an adviser to international students in Latin America and was based at the EducationUSA center within the Institute of International Education in Mexico City. She also served in a regional capacity as the coordinator of EducationUSA centers in Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean for the U.S. Department of State. Maria was born and raised in Mexico City. She holds a bachelor of arts in German studies from Wellesley College and a master‚s in public administration/non-profit management from New York University.

Naomi Funahashi / Rylan Sekiguchi Workshop 1 Title: Strategies for Teaching About China (90 minutes) Description: This interactive workshop will present strategies for teaching about China in middle and high school social studies classrooms. Participants will engage in activities from SPICE curriculum units that utilize primary sources, documentaries, music, and other materials. Extensive curriculum resources will be distributed. Workshop 2 Title: Teaching About Contemporary Issues in an Asian Context (90 minutes) Description: Participants will engage in a series of interactive activities and discussions regarding human rights, war crimes tribunals, the environment, and political change in Asia. This workshop will utilize SPICE materials designed for high school social studies classrooms. Extensive complimentary curricula will also be distributed. Biography: Naomi Funahashi has worked with the Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education (SPICE) since August 2005. Her responsibilities at SPICE include coordinating and teaching the Reischauer Scholars Program (a distance-learning course on Japan and U.S.-Japan relations for high school juniors and seniors in the United States), coordinating and leading seminars for high school teachers on teaching about Asia, and curriculum writing. Prior to working with SPICE, she became a credentialed high school history teacher and worked with the Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Northern California for two years as program coordinator for the California Nisei High School Diploma Project and a project on the 100th Anniversary of San Francisco’s Japantown. She attended high school at the American School in Japan in Tokyo, Japan and received her bachelor’s degree in International Relations at Brown University. Rylan Sekiguchi has worked as a Curriculum Writer at SPICE for a year and a half. He is currently developing a curriculum unit on urbanization in China, to be used as a teacher’s guide for the documentary film Transforming the Earth, Part One: Ten Thousand Shovels, and last year served as the primary author of An Examination of War Crimes Tribunals. He also has contributed research and writing to other curricula and helps coordinate National Consortium for Teaching about Asia teacher seminars at Stanford University. Rylan received his Bachelor of Science degree in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University, and has since worked with high school students as both a tutor and a classroom teacher.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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