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From Ideas to Reality: Teachers Without Borders Today’s Speaker: Dr. Fred Mednick , Founder, Teachers Without Borders Moderator: Jennifer Carole , Manager, Customer Marketing

Dr. Fred Mednick Founder, Teachers Without Borders

Hello!

What Do You See Outside Your Window?

Brains are evenly distributed throughout the world What I Learned

59 Million Stories

Some ideas are simply out of date

First Step: Test the Idea “ Honey…I am going to the Middle-east… to discuss this with some guy I met on the Internet ”

Next Step: Allow People to Develop and Grow The Idea

2000: An Idea 2009: A Movement

Teacher members active in 124 countries

30,000+ offline and online members

A virtual university with over 50 free courses

The cost for teachers remains at $0

All you need is a small staff and an army of volunteers

What a Small Staff and an Army of Volunteers Have Accomplished

Convened conferences of teachers from regions in conflict

Created a five-course Certificate of Teaching Mastery program

Established schools in displaced persons’ camps

Conducted HIV-AIDS workshops for teachers

Opened Community Teaching and Learning Centers in prisons

Invented a program for teachers to reach U.N. goals

Developed 50+ free courses, regional networks, and action groups

Broadcast a “Voice of Teachers” radio show reaching 5,000,000 p/week

Trained earthquake science to teachers in order that they may save lives

TWB Flagship Programs

Certificate of Teaching Mastery Five free professional development courses

Conferences Often of teachers from regions in conflict

Tools and Curriculum ( Also free ) to allow teachers to connect, create, and collaborate

High-tech; high-touch; high-teach

Good Ideas Turn Challenges into Opportunities

It’s Also About Dispelling Myths … that teachers don’t have time … that teachers don’t share … that teachers are confused by technology

Have There Been Challenges? Sure…

These Challenges are nothing compared to…

The 121 million children out of school

25,000 children die every day from preventable diseases

The 7 million more teachers needed – immediately

Zambia loses over 1,000 teachers to HIV/AIDS each year

Literacy in Norway is 100% vs. 21.8% in Burkina Faso

What’s Next?

Ensure that our free tools can reach 59 million+ so that the rest of the world can benefit from global wisdom

Create an online, transparent evaluation system so that communities can define success on their own terms

Be the world’s most generous and productive non-profit organization in the world

Prove that a focus on teachers builds world peace, economic development …and hope

And, in the end, let’s never forget… “ Hay una solo pedagogia – la pedagogia del amor” “ There is only one pedagogy – the pedagogy of love. ” Federico Mayor Former Director: UNESCO