Our economies and currencies are tied to one another ... Ca

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Going Global
Bringing the Worldto Your Classroom
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• NDE and The Malaika Foundation

• Longview Foundation Grant
• Statewide Survey
• Convene IE Summit
• Establish NE Council of IE

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• Our LivesAre Going Global

• Our economies and currencies are tied to one
  another
• Environmental and health issues reverberate
  around the world in seconds
• Technology is an accelerator of this increasing
  interconnectedness
• Migration and immigration are creating more
  culturally and linguistically diverse societies

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• Nebraska Trade Statistics

• 13 of manufacturing workers depend on exports
  for jobs
• Exports sustain over 1,000 Nebraska businesses
  of these, 79 are enterprises with fewer than 500
  employees
• Foreign-owned companies employ 18,700 workers in
  NE
• Nebraska's export shipments of merchandise in
  2007 totaled 4.3 billion, up 56 since 2003
• In 2006, Lincoln exported 586 million in
  merchandise,18 of Nebraska's total merchandise
  exports

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• NebraskaFortune 500 Companies

• Berkshire Hathaway
• Cabela's
• Ameritrade
• Werner Enterprises
• Mutual of Omaha

• ConAgra
• Nelnet
• Union Pacific
• West
• Kiewit Sons

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• Get Acquainted

• Why do you want to visit this country?
• What do you need to know before going?

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• Workers of the FutureMust . . .

• Be sensitive to foreign cultures
• Be fluent in foreign languages
• Understand international trade
• Demonstrate technological savvy
• Work in international teams

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• Todays StudentsWill Be . . .

• Selling to other countries
• Buying from other countries
• Working for international companies
• Managing employees from other cultures and
  countries

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• How Do WePrepare Our Students?

• Our students will live and work in a different
  world than the one in which their parents and
  teachers grew up.

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• How Do WePrepare Our Students?

• Students will need to think beyond our borders
  to
• Compete
• Connect
• Cooperate
• Communicate

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• Going Global

• Two Million Minutes