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Ensuring a Global Education for your Children: Information for International Parents in Boston

Tuesday 9-Feb-10 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM EST

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89 South Street
Boston MA 02111
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Phone: (617) 523-6565

Event Description

Ensuring a Global Education for your Children:
Information for International Parents in Boston

Hear an international perspective from Boston-based educators and take the opportunity to meet other parents in the New England area.

Speakers:

Dr Bruce Robinson is Headmaster of the British School of Boston. He has more than 30 years of experience as a principal, teacher and consultant in public, private and international schools throughout the world, beginning with those in his native Australia and including schools in the United States, Vietnam and India. Prior to his recent appointment, he established and served as principal of the Sarala Birla Academy in Bangalore, India, a new international residential school that offered Indian and British curricula and the International Baccalaureate Diploma. Dr Robinson has a doctorate in educational leadership from the University of Nebraska and master's degree in education administration from the University of New England in Australia.

Geoff Epstein is a Newton School Committee member, elected in November, 2007 and is a past Board President of the (Newton) Underwood After School Program where he served for 3 years and has been actively involved in school system issues, with a special focus on math, science and technology since 2001. Geoff was born and educated in Australia, he has a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Sydney University. Following post-doctoral work at Oxford, MSU, Pittsburgh and MIT he researched and taught physics at BU and then moved into commercial software development where he now focuses on web information management for small businesses. Geoff and his wife Kitty have lived in Newton for 20 years and have 3 sons, the two eldest, graduates from Newton North and Brookline respectively. Their youngest attends Newton North High School. After arriving in the United States in 1975, he became a US citizen in 1988 and is still only partially assimilated.

Moderator:

Alysson B. Parker is a high school Humanities teacher, freelance editor and journalist. She has lived in many different countries, most recently in New Zealand. An educational consultant and specialist, Alysson has expertise in external examinations and “testing philosophy.” Alysson is also a poet by passion and has published work in The Binnacle, Northern New England Review, Ophelia Street, Scars, Kota, Deep South (New Zealand), The Dominion Review, Common Lives, A Room of Her Own, ExPat Lit, and other publications. Alysson, her partner and their two daughters – plus three cats and a Welsh Terrier who should be paying rent – live north of Boston.

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