This is also a big day at Chief Sealth International High School, with an all-school assembly as part of Global Issues Week, which culminates in the first Washington Global Issues Network Conference on campus the next two days. As explained in the announcement we published last week, this will bring hundreds of students and teachers from the region and beyond to Sealth over the next two days. Above, student coordinators Aisaya Corbray and Paloma Robertson, with Linda Sills from the Global Issues Network; below, professional snowboarder Lucas DeBari from the group Protect Our Winters:

Also organizing the conference, Sealth teacher Noah Zeichner, who shared the photos; it’s a successor of sorts to World Water Week, the “ideas festival” that he and student coordinators have led for the past four years. As with WWW, the event has a major focus on student-led activities and discussions; toward that end, the theme is “Our Future Is Now.”