Please introduce yourself to your colleagues:

• What is your name?

• Where do you reside?

• Which education systems have you experienced as an educator, students or parent? (e.g., Tokyo public schools, a private boarding school in Geneva, home schooling in Ohio, IBM corporate training in New York)

• What do you hope to learn and contribute to this seminar?

• If you could take a 1-year sabbatical to learn anything, what would you do?

• If you could have tea with any person in history, who would you invite and why?

Seminar culture:

A note from Anna (seminar facilitator):

I want this course to be an awesome experience for all participants. “Awesome” means different things to different people. Therefore, I welcome you to close your eyes and envision what an awesome peer-to-peer course means to you - culture, energy, dialog, emotion... Paint a vivid picture. What do you see? Please share your mental picture below. Feel free to respond to your colleagues!