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KELLI
CROOKS Title: Expanding Educational Journeys Throughout the International Community Description: People to People Student Leader Programs provides the opportunity to expand educational journeys throughout the international community. Learn how you as an educator can help your students gain an edge in the college admissions race. Join us for a brief presentation and video about the People to People Student Leader Programs, and how both you and your students can become involved in this life shaping opportunity. We look forward to seeing you there. Biography: Kelli Crooks has been with People to People Student Leader Programs for over a year. She is responsible for student outreach, educational advisor relations, and the development of leadership programs. Ms. Crooks has a degree in Social Studies education at the secondary level. She has the pleasure of meeting educators internationally to discuss and recognize their motivated students with academic promise, leadership potential and a desire to serve their communities. 
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STEFANIE
LAMB / NAOMI FUNAHASHI / RYLAN SEKIGUCHI (SPICE) Workshop I Topic: Social Studies Title: Strategies for Teaching World Religions Description: This interactive workshop will focus on teaching about Confucianism and Islam. Participants will engage in several activities from two SPICE curriculum units, Religions and Philosophies in China and Islamic Civilizations and the Arts. This workshop is appropriate for middle school Social Studies teachers, and participants will receive complimentary curriculum from SPICE. Workshop II Topic: Social Studies Title: Along the Silk Road Description: This interactive workshop will present methods and materials for teaching about various aspects of the Silk Road. Participants will engage in several activities from the newly revised SPICE curriculum unit, Along the Silk Road, which was recently developed in a partnership with the Silk Road Project. This workshop is appropriate for both middle and high school Social Studies teachers, and participants will receive complimentary curriculum from SPICE. Biography: Stefanie Lamb is a curriculum writer and East Asia seminar coordinator at SPICE. She has co-authored several SPICE curricula on topics ranging from Islamic art to the Cultural Revolution in China to global natural disasters. Before joining SPICE in 2000, Stefanie taught middle school social studies in Hong Kong and Oregon. Stefanie has a bachelor's degree in Elementary Education and a master's degree in Curriculum Studies and Teacher Education. 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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