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John’s International School June 18th - June 25th

The Youth Leadership Encounter was organised by the ISA and StJohn’s School, Sidmouth, it provided an opportunity for youngpeople to meet and learn about each other’s cultures, whilstinvestigating a topic of huge global significance. This year’s topicwas ‘Worldwide Migration’. The YLE encourages students toparticipate actively in a series of lectures, debates and workshopson the issue. In addition to the formal conference programme, theYLE allows participants to form strong bonds with students fromall around the world through a busy, but fun, schedule of extracurricularactivities. The event will included two days’ stay inLondon with sightseeing, followed by a conference and workshopswhich took place in the beautiful seaside town of Sidmouth at StJohn’s School. The week culminated in a camping trip to RiverDart Country Park.

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One of ISA’s objectives is to further world peace and international understanding through education. Promoting international understanding in schools worldwide allow children to build bridges between different cultures and help them become responsible future global leaders. We are very excited that we can count on 3 new school members that will help ISA reach these objectives.

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We are staring this 2017 with great news! We have 3 new members, SEK Guadalajara (Mexico), SEK Los Valles (Ecuador) and IES Ljubljana (Slovenia). Please give them a warm welcome. We are happy to say that they have sent us articles about special events that they have celebrated in their schools. ISA needs to keep growing and encouraging the importance of international education and understanding. We would like to ask that all ISA members share our mission with fellow educators and help us create a stronger network.

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ISA and The Global Goals

Working together we can make this happen.

ISA 65 years ago was founded to help build a better world by promoting international education. And now ISA can be part of The Global Goals initiative. In, September of 2015 World Leaders announced their commitment to helping the Global Goals for Sustainable Development. 17 goals to achieve 3 extraordinary things in the next 15 years. End extreme poverty. Fight inequality and injustice. Fix climate change. These goals are about making our world better and we should encourage our students to become the generation that changes the world. You will find some great articles in this issue that support these goals.

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Happy 65th Anniversary!!

“UNESCO’S first education seminar”, in 1947, was the theme of education for international understanding.

And by 1951, a small group of Head teachers volunteered to form the Conference of Internationally Minded Schools. In the same year, with UNESCO backing together with the support of staff, parents and governors of the International School of Geneva and the United Nations International School in New York, the International Schools Association (ISA) was founded. ISA was the first educational, nongovernmental organization (NGO) to have, and to continue to have, consultative status at UNESCO. ISA’s member schools and its committed Board of Directors have made it possible for ISA to celebrate its 65th Anniversary. They have been intense years of promoting international understanding in schools, preparing conferences, Youth Leadership Encounters and creating a stronger network of like-minded schools. Today ISA is working towards another 65 years of commitment and dedication to help further world peace and international understanding through education.

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The attraction of teaching in an International School.

Mushy Ali joined the staff of Istanbul International School in September 2015, and up to now has taught in several schools around South East Asia.

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