2. Clare Sisisky
Director of International Education
Collegiate School
Richmond, Virginia
clare_sisisky@collegiate-va.org

3. Agenda:
Collaboration Across Borders: Why and How?
Structuring a High School Program: Whole
Community Effort
Transformational Outcomes
Alternate Models and Challenges

4. Goal: To create a program for students to
develop the leadership and communication
skills to collaborate together on ways to
impact pressing global problems in a way that
challenges them, allows for personal
connections, and is transformational for our
school community as a whole.

5. Why Collaboration Across Borders?

6. Jean-Francois Rischard
High Noon: 20 Global Problems, 20 Years to Solve Them
Sharing our planet: Issues involving the global
community
• Global warming
• Biodiversity and ecosystem losses
• Fisheries depletion
• Deforestation
• Water deficits
• Maritime safety and pollution

7. Dr. Mark Wrighton
Chancellor, Washington University
•Food
•Water
•Clean air
•Longevity (health & social issues)
•Energy
•Source
•CO2 emissions

8. Solutions will most likely be transnational
and involve multiple stakeholders
Solutions will involve local and global for-
profit companies as stakeholders

11. Identifying Strong Partners

17. Developing Collaboration Skills

24. Whole Community Effort

28. Goal: To create a program for students to
develop the leadership and communication
skills to collaborate together on ways to
impact pressing global problems in a way that
challenges them, allows for personal
connections, and is transformational for our
school community as a whole.

30. www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-KGDB5KKKQ

31. Transformational Outcomes

32. University of Pennsylvania Research
The best predictors of “outstanding achievement”?
•Zest
•Grit
•Self-control
•Social intelligence
•Gratitude
•Optimism
•Curiosity

34. Packages go to people.
The growth is where
the people are..

39. Alternate Models, Challenges, and
Questions