Welcome to the Internationalizing Michigan Education community website. We hope this website becomes a valuable tool for teachers, administrators, parents and other community members to help internationalize their school offerings and help prepare the students of Michigan for the global economy of the future.
This is a grass-roots approach to changing how things work in Michigan. Through this website, the community of educators can interact directly with each other and with a growing wealth of eductaional resources.
Most important, this website is a two-way process: you can find and add content to it quickly and easily to share with each other your news, resources, questions and comments.
To direct you to the resources you are looking for more efficiently, this site is organized by roles, identified by tabs near the top of each page. To get the fullest use form this site, please register as a community member. Many of us wear many hats, so feel free to include yourself in as many groups within this site as you wish.
By becoming part of our on-line community, you can quickly access information most pertinent to your interest or expertise.
We welcome you and your active participation; together we can make this website an amazing resource for all of us as we prepare to meet a global future together.
"Schools as Global Enterprises: Meeting the Challenges of Globalization Through International Networking"
Dr. Yong Zhao
University Distinguished Professor, Michigan State University
Three Minute Introduction
What will it take for our students to compete in the global economy? How can our schools help our students now, prepare for the future. Yong Zhao's twenty minute talk about "Schools as Global Enterprises" outlines problems that we face today about the future of education in a flat world.
