2012 KORCOS INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION CONFERENCE INFORMATION UPDATES:
• Relax After the Conference! (Hotel Package) - DEADLINE to sign up: January 30, 2012
• Applications for Presentations and Job Alike Sessions - *CLOSED* Thank you for sending in your proposals.
• KORCOS 2012 Conference Cover Art Contest - JUDGING is on February 4, 2012 - see your Art Teachers!
• Student Leadership Institute: Sign up for this NOW!
• Inspiring Education...
We are very honored at KORCOS to host the following keynote speakers at the March 9, 2012 International Education Conference at Chadwick International.
Dr. Michael James, PhD
 Dr. James earned his B.A. in Theology and Psychology from the University of Notre Dame and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Educational Policy Studies from Indiana University. Prior to his work at Boston College, he served as Vice President of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (ACCU) and in various teaching, research and student services roles at Indiana University, and the University of Notre Dame. He recently co-authored the book: Education’s Highest Aim (New City Press, 2010). The focus of his studies is on Educational Environments and Leadership.
Below are titles of his previous speeches:
- Assessing Educational Institution Mission and Culture: A Dialogical Methodology
- Student Development Outcomes and Institutional Mission: A Strategy for Planning and Accountability
- Preparing Students for Higher Education in the 21st Century
Dr. Spencer Kagan
Dr. Kagan is a researcher, presenter and author of over100 books, chapters, and scientific journal articles. He is a former clinical psychologist and full professor of psychology and education at the University of California. His instructional strategies are used in teacher training institutes in over 20 countries. His books are translated into many languages.
Dr. Kagan has been featured in the leading educational magazines including Educational Leadership, Instructor, Learning Magazine, and Video Journal. He is in high demand as a keynote speaker at national and international conferences.
Dr. Kagan developed the concept of structures; his popular brain-based, cooperative learning and multiple intelligences structures like Numbered Heads Together and Timed Pair Share are used in classrooms world-wide.
Adam Gerard
 Adam is the main speaker at this year's KORCOS Student Leadership Institute. He found passion in the environmental movement after getting involved with the youth-led environmental non-profit organization Tree Musketeers at the age of 10. He became the youngest Youth Director in the history of the organization, and joined the Board of Directors at the Age of 13, later becoming the President.
He currently serves as Immediate Past President of Tree Musketeers and is helping manage a campaign to inspire 3 million youth to plan 3 million trees around the world, with almost 900,000 already in the ground. In addition to this campaign, Adam has personally helped raised hundreds of thousands of dollars, including a $200,000 grant from the United States Government.
Adam served as a member of the City of Manhattan Beach’s Environmental Task Force Climate Action Subcommittee for 18 months, where he had the opportunity to advise the City Council of his hometown of Manhattan Beach on how to “Green the City.”
Adam is also an award-winning public speaker, and a recognized Toastmaster member. Furthermore, Adam served as a panelist for the City of Los Angeles’ Environmental Youth Conference in 2008. Adam enjoys politics as well and has interned for Congresswoman Jane Harman, Senator Ted Lieu, and Assembly member Betsy Butler.
Following are titles of his previous speeches: "Seeds of Change" and "Planting the Leaders of the Next Generation."
A Message from the President about the March 9, 2012 KORCOS Annual Conference
~November 2011~
"Inspiring Education" ... what is this all about?
The Korea Council of Overseas Schools (KORCOS) and the Department of Defense Schools (DoDDS) share the theme Inspiring Education for their 2012 Annual Conference. This theme is multifaceted. As lifelong learners, the international educators in the Republic of Korea serve as agents of inspiration for each other. The inspiration is a welcome contagion that is relayed from one colleague to another. Sharing pedagogical and andragogical methods and continually seeking to improve in various fields of expertise, international educators of KORCOS and DoDDS meet together annually and in small group job- alike meetings spread throughout the year to share thoughts and discoveries that make teaching and learning better.
Inspiring Education has an agentic character because it also means education that inspires. International educators in the Republic of Korea and in general, throughout the world uphold the common goal of working towards a better future. Educators and learners reach this goal collaboratively. Going for a better future means working hard for it from both sides, from the teaching force and the learning force.
Another facet of the theme Inspiring Education is when sectors that receive the products of educational institutions applaud the new entrants into the job markets. Likewise, these recipients of the well-schooled products congratulate the institutions that produced them.
The inspiration rendered by education and the inspiration we can render to education could well be an unlimited horizon of possibilities. It is my hope that when we come together this spring, on March 9, 2012 at Chadwick International, and then at DoDDS in the fall; that we will inspire each other in our common goal to educate the generations that will constitute the sources of inspiration for generations to come.
Alice Fe D. Lavina, Ed.D., Ph. D.
KORCOS President
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