U.S. Department of State

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Jennifer Zimdahl Galt Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs U.S. Department of State Washington, DC

Ambassador Jennifer Zimdahl Galt assumed the role of Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary (PDAS) for Educational and Cultural Affairs on November 13, 2017. The Bureau advances U.S. foreign policy objectives through educational, professional, cultural and sports exchanges that promote mutual understanding between the people of the United States and people of other nations and create networks and partnerships to advance U.S. foreign policy goals and address global challenges and opportunities. Prior to joining ECA, Ms. Galt was Ambassador of the United States of America to Mongolia from 2015-17. A career member of the State Department's Senior Foreign Service with the rank of Minister Counselor, Ambassador Galt formerly served as Principal Officer of the U.S. Consulate General in Guangzhou, China, where she had the privilege of leading and mentoring a talented team of nearly 500, of whom 62 were first- and second-tour officers. Ambassador Galt's previous postings overseas have included Belgrade, Taipei with the American Institute in Taiwan, Mumbai, Beijing, Shanghai, and the U.S. Mission to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in Brussels. In Washington, Ambassador Galt served as Senior Advisor in the State Department's Bureau of Public Affairs and as Deputy Director for Public Diplomacy in the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs. Ambassador Galt holds Masters' degrees from National Defense University and Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), as well as a Bachelor's degree in political science, history and languages from Colorado College in her home state of Colorado. She was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Juris Prudence from Colorado College in 2016. She is fluent in Mandarin and French, and also speaks Italian, Spanish and Serbian.

Anthony Koliha Director, Office of Global Educational Programs Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs U.S. Department of State Washington, DC

Anthony Koliha is the Director of the Office of Global Educational Programs at the U.S. Department of State, where he oversees a portfolio of international teacher, professional, and global mobility programs and services across four branches. Prior to joining ECA, he was the

Director of International Programs in the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University, Bloomington, where he helped successfully launch a new School of Global and International Studies, in addition to expanding international programs and providing senior leadership for over a dozen federally- funded international, area studies, and foreign language centers. Mr. Koliha previously held joint posts as Director of the Fulbright Program in Russia and International Director of the Russia/Eurasia office for the Institute of International Education. Mr. Koliha has also worked at the Social Science Research Council and American Councils for International Education. He holds degrees from Kenyon College and Indiana University, Bloomington.

Jennifer Gibson Chief, Teacher Exchange Branch Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs U.S. Department of State Washington, DC

Jennifer is Chief of the Teacher Exchange Branch in the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) where she manages Fulbright Programs for teachers, the Teaching Excellence and Achievement Program, and the International Leaders in Education Program, as well as other exchange programs for K-12 teachers and administrators from the United States and fifty countries worldwide. Previously she managed the Humphrey Fellowship Program at ECA. After college she served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Palau and then joined the Academy for Educational Development in Washington, D.C. She is a graduate of Bates College and has a master's degree in Organization Development from Johns Hopkins University.

Betsy Devlin-Foltz Senior Program Officer, Teacher Exchange Branch Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs U.S. Department of State Washington, DC

Betsy is a Senior Program Officer in the Teacher Exchange Branch where she manages grants that support professional development exchanges for U.S. and international teachers. From 2002-2010, she served as Executive Director of the Longview Foundation for Education in World Affairs and International Understanding, where she launched initiatives to internationalize teacher preparation and work with states, districts, schools and non-profits to build the global competence of K-12 students in the U.S. Earlier in her career, she taught English to middle school students and adults in the U.S., was a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in France, directed a college study abroad program in Zimbabwe, and consulted on cross-cultural communications, organization development, and international education to clients in the public,

private and non-profit sectors. She is a graduate of Swarthmore College and holds a Master's Degree in International Educational Development from Teachers College, Columbia University.

Michael Kuban Senior Program Officer, Teacher Exchange Branch Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs U.S. Department of State Washington, DC

Michael has worked as a Senior Program Officer in the Teacher Exchange Branch of the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs for over fifteen years. He works on a variety of different exchange programs for both U.S. and international teachers, including the Fulbright Distinguished Awards in Teaching program, the Teaching Excellence and Achievement (TEA) program, and the Teachers for Global Classrooms (TGC) Program. Before joining the Department of State, Mr. Kuban worked for ten years for the American Councils for International Education, managing exchange programs for undergraduate and graduate students, teachers, and professors. Michael earned a master's degree in Slavic Languages and Literature and a bachelor's degree in Russian Language and Area Studies, and he speaks Russian and has some knowledge of French and Czech.

Maxine Lunn Senior Program Officer, Teacher Exchange Branch Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs U.S. Department of State Washington, DC

Maxine is a Senior Program Officer in the Teacher Exchange Branch. Previously, she worked at 1105 Media, where she was General Manager of the FEND (Federal Employees News Digest) division and Director of Research. She also served as Research Manager on AED's Development Information Services Contract for USAID and as Vice President, Technology Programs, for Virginia's Center for Innovative Technology. Early in her career, she worked as a Presidential Management Intern in the Voluntary Visitor Program, and was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Cameroon. Maxine holds a Ph.D. in Public Policy from George Mason University, an M.A. in International Economics and Social Change and Development from Johns Hopkins SAIS, and a B.A. in International Relations, French and Spanish from Tufts University.

Jennyfer Wong Senior Program Officer, Teacher Exchange Branch Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs U.S. Department of State Washington, DC

Jennyfer is a Senior Program Officer in the Teacher Exchange Branch. Previously, she was a Program Assistant at the Foreign Service Institute, where she helped administer and coordinate training courses for mid- to- senior level Consular Foreign Service Officers and locally employed staff. She interned at the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs for the International Visitor Leadership Program, and worked in various non-profits and a major think tank conducting education policy research and programming executive leadership training workshops. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and East Asian Languages and Literatures at the University of Florida and holds a Master's Degree in Public Policy from American University. She is a native speaker in Chinese Cantonese and proficient in Chinese Mandarin and Spanish.

Hannah Cook Summer Intern, Teacher Exchange Branch Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs U.S. Department of State Washington, DC

Hannah is a summer intern with the Teacher Exchange team. She expressed specific interest in working with the Teacher Exchange Team because she believes that having teachers in America that use globalized curricula would have better prepared her to study and live abroad. From 2014-2016 she attended the Eastern Mediterranean International School (EMIS) in Tel Aviv, Israel with students from over 35 countries. Upon her return to the U.S., Hannah was confident that she wanted to pursue a degree in International and Global Studies (IGS) at Brandeis University in Waltham, MA. After obtaining her BA in IGS from Brandeis, she hopes to join the Peace Corps and eventually serve as a Foreign Service Officer. She has enjoyed working with the Teacher Exchange Team this summer planning the third annual Global Teaching Dialogue. She will miss her time at the Department of State, but is looking forward to returning to Brandeis for her junior year where she will begin the school year as an International Student Orientation Leader.

Alumni Panel:

Facilitator:

Roberto J. Rodriguez Teach Plus Washington, DC

Roberto J. Rodr?guez is President and CEO of Teach Plus, where he builds the teacher leadership movement and supports the contribution of teacher leaders to educational innovation and change. Prior to joining Teach Plus, Roberto served in senior roles in the White House and in the United States Senate. As Deputy Assistant to President Barack Obama for Education, Roberto developed and advanced policies to improve educational opportunity for learners from birth through adulthood. His efforts accelerated investment and reform in the K-12 system, added tens of thousands of children to preschool and early learning programs, personalized and re-designed the high school experience, expanded the Pell Grant, and increased support for America's community colleges. Roberto's collaboration with Congress ultimately led to the enactment of the Every Student Succeeds Act of 2015. In the United States Senate, Roberto served as principal education advisor to the late U.S. Senator Edward M. Kennedy and led successful bipartisan efforts to enact the No Child Left Behind Act, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act, the Higher Education Opportunity Act, and the Head Start for School Readiness Act. Roberto holds a Presidential appointment to the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. His numerous distinguished awards include the National Champion for Children Award from First Focus, and the Head Start Windows of Opportunity Award from the National Head Start Association. Roberto began his career in Washington, D.C. at the National Council of La Raza, where he directed research and policy analysis of federal and state education issues. He holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and an Ed.M. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Panelists:

Elizabeth Barrett-Zahn K-5 Science Facilitator Columbus Elementary School New Rochelle, NY Fulbright Distinguished Awards in Teaching, Vietnam Twitter: @woodstocklizz Email: ebarrettzahn@

In addition to serving as the full-time science facilitator at Columbus Elementary School, Elizabeth is the Field Editor for Science and Children, NSTA journal. She also serves as the

District Coordinator for WIPRO, a vertical team collaboration project and teaches a STEM workshop run by the Center for STEM Education at Mercy College. Needless to say, she is a passionate and dedicated educator with national and international experience in teaching, conducting workshops, and giving presentations. For two summers she was a member of the Asian Monsoon Project research team at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory's Tree Ring Laboratory as part of Columbia University's Summer Research Program. She traveled to Malaysia and Singapore where she taught, ran STEM workshops, and collaborated with educators as a representative of the program. The following summer, she traveled to Japan as part of the TeachJAPAN program. Last summer, she received a Fulbright Distinguished Award in Teaching and traveled to Hai Phong, Vietnam where she built a relationship with Huu Nghi Primary School (HNPS). Elizabeth received a Fulbright Alumni Award to develop the SisterSchool STEM Project which has enabled her students to create strong connections with the HNPS students.

Delia Dunlap World Studies and ESOL Teacher Silver Spring International Middle School Silver Spring, MD English Language Fellow, Algeria and Mauritania Twitter: @deliajanedunlap Email: deeleeya@

Delia Dunlap currently teaches World Studies and ESOL at Silver Spring International Middle School in Montgomery County, Maryland. Prior to living in Maryland, Delia trained teachers in Algiers, Algeria and Nouakchott, Mauritania in her role as a Senior Fellow with the English Language Fellows Program. This transformative experience enabled Delia to design and implement dynamic curricula with real-world applications. Throughout her career as an educator, Delia has developed and implemented a wide-range of education programs in the United States and Africa, During her undergraduate studies at the University of Minnesota, Delia spent one year working with street children in Kenya. In 2002, she received a Master in Teaching degree from the Evergreen State College, where her studies focused on multicultural, learner-centered, and project-based methodologies. Afterwards, she served as a Rural Community Health Education volunteer with the Peace Corps in Benin. From 2005-2009, she taught ESL to West African immigrants in Brooklyn, New York and at the same time worked as the Education Officer for Concern Worldwide, an international humanitarian organization. Delia left Concern to teach ESL in a refugee camp in northern Ethiopia for the International Rescue Committee.

Stacey Tatera Director of Communications and Development Arkansas School for the Deaf Little Rock, AK Fulbright Distinguished Awards in Teaching, United Kingdom Twitter: @staceytatera Email: staceytatera@

Stacey Tatera is currently the Director of Communications and Development at the Arkansas School for the Deaf (ASD) in Little Rock, Arkansas. Throughout her career at ASD, she has served as a classroom teacher, the K-12 Technology Coordinator, and an Administrator. Stacey is a frequent presenter for Special Education and Technology issues at conferences at the state, national, and international levels. In 2014, she received a Fulbright Distinguished Award in Teaching, making her the first recipient of this prestigious award in Arkansas, and the first worldwide in the field of Deaf Education. She traveled throughout the United Kingdom, visiting dozens of schools serving deaf children, to share best practices for mobile technology use with deaf and hard of hearing students, while gaining valuable insights into programming and strategies being utilize throughout to diversify classrooms. She was invited to present her findings at the International Conference on Deaf Education in Athens, Greece in 2015. Since her Fulbright award, Stacey has returned to the UK multiple times to consult with researchers on ongoing studies targeting strategies for linguistic development in deaf children and to serve as an advisor for Sign Post, a division of International Multimedia Company ITV, which produces interactive Signed Stories apps for deaf children in the US and the UK. She continues to work at her school to implement initiatives collected from the Scottish Sensory Centre at the University of Edinburgh, where she returned to work as a Fulbright DAT Alumni in 2016, and advises on policy development with the Arkansas Department of Education related to individualized educational programming for deaf children throughout Arkansas.

Travis Bouldin Ron Brown Academy Washington, DC Teachers for Global Classrooms, Morocco Twitter: @tripp_samuels Email: Travis.bouldin@

Travis Bouldin is an educator and social justice advocate who works with urban youth, preparing them to be scholars and global citizens. Travis believes every young mind can shape their community, nation and world. Travis started a non-profit called "We Are All Incorporated" that provides uncommon experiences to urban students with a focus on changing the narrative about males of color nationally and abroad. Travis holds a BS in history from Frostburg State

University, a M.A.T in Teaching Secondary Social Studies from American University, and a M.Ed. in Teacher Leadership.

Workshop: Global Education, It's Elementary, My Dear Teachers! Ten Tips for Globalizing Your Elementary Classroom

Stacy Gasteiger Fifth Grade Teacher Selinsgrove Elementary School Selinsgrove, PA Teachers for Global Classrooms, 2015, Philippines Twitter: @MrsG5thClass and @StacyGasteiger Email: stacygasteiger@

Stacy is a non-traditional teacher who began teaching after several other careers. She currently teaches 5th grade in a beautiful, rural community along the Susquehanna River in central Pennsylvania. Although she has taught a broad range of subjects, she currently focuses on math, science, and social studies. She was a Teacher for Global Classroom (TGC) Fellow from 201516 and went to the Philippines for her field experience. Because of her experience with TGC, Stacy now has partner classes in five countries, with which she shares videos, lessons, with, and whom her students skype and write letters to. She has added global elements to almost all of her science and social studies curriculum. Additionally, she has a passion for international travel. She just finished piloting the National Geographic Explorer and Educator program with Explorer Tashi Dhendup of Bhutan, and as a 2018 Grosvenor Teacher Fellow, will be travelling to the Galapagos Islands in September. She is a member of the Greater United Way Diversity and Unity Council, which creates programs promoting diversity and understanding within the community. Stacy received her Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology from Brown University in 1984, teacher intern certification from Susquehanna University in 2006, and a Master's degree in Curriculum and Instruction from Bloomsburg University in 2013. She is currently pursuing an ELL certification.

Anne Mlod School Librarian Genesee Elementary School Auburn, NY Teachers for Global Classrooms, 2015, Philippines Twitter: @MrsMlod Email: summer_reading@

Anne was a Teachers for Global Classrooms (TGC) Fellow for the 2015-2016 school year and travelled to the Philippines. This experience ignited her passion for global education. Upon her

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