Mr. de Groot's Address

Mr de Groot's address to our Upper School stressed the importance of global awareness and cultural awareness as strategies for avoiding cultural, lingual, and geographical goof-ups.

In his interactive presentation, Mr. de Groot provided real life examples of how a lack of global or cultural awareness resulted in negative and often embarrassing consecuences major corporations.

Mr. de Groot ended his message by challenging our student body to become more aware of global issues and open to learning about other cultures.

For more information about Mr. de Groot and his involvement in the international community here in Atlanta please visit:

Global Education Matters

Question of the week

Have any of the presidential candidates addressed the importance of global awareness and cultural awareness as part of thier Presidential campaign? If so, who? and what was the nature of their message?

NEW: The Global Leadership Speakers Series

The entire Upper School community gathered together on the morning of January 29th, 2008 to listen to an interactive and energetic presentation from Mr. Eric de Groot, Principal of "Global Educations Matters" based out of Atlanta.

The presentation marked the beginning of the newest program, "The Global Speakers Series", which is sponsored by The Office of Multicultural Affairs and the Global Awareness Club. This new addition to the US events schedule provides our students with a valuable opportunity to hear from influential leaders from throughout the Atlanta area as they present on such topics as global awareness, cultural sensitivity, cross-cultural communication and collaboration and finally engaged global citizenship.

The ultimate goal is to better prepare our Upper School students to thrive in a diverse, international, interdependent 21st century world.

See more information about Mr. de Groot's message in the post below.