Ryan Cho Keynote Talk "We need connected spaces more than we need safe ones" Heritage Woods/Terry Fox Secondary Pro-D Day January 28, 2019 Port Coquitlam, BC

What do you think educators need to address to cultivate global citizens in today’s world and how should we go about doing it? In his talk, Ryan Cho explores how teachers and students can find the courage and motivation to change the world as global citizens. Ryan Cho teaches at Terry Fox Secondary School in Port Coquitlam, BC. He developed classroom Climate Justice Curriculum Resources for the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, exploring how climate change issues connect to the issues of inequity and fairness in British Columbia. He spent years as a Curriculum Coordinator for the Pearson Seminar on Youth Leadership where he designed, coordinated and facilitated curriculum and workshop sessions for a three-week residential social justice and environmental sustainability-themed youth leadership program. Ryan currently sits on the anti-poverty committee with the BCTF Committee for Action on Social Justice. As a writer, Ryan received a Golden Leaf Award from the Canadian Educational Press Association for his piece Privatization and privilege comes at a price, in which he discussed how poverty in BC is exacerbated by the privatization of public education. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx