On October 9, 2017, at Pedagogical Institute of Kyiv Borys Grinchenko University, the public lecture “The Strategy of Pedagogical Education Development in the USA” was presented by Lisa M. Blank, a professor of the University of Montana (USA), a participant of the Fulbright Exchange Program. The aim of the lecture is to introduce the educational staff and students of the Pedagogical Institute with the system of pedagogical education in the USA in the context of realizing the state policy in the field of the higher education. During the lecture, the speaker pointed out peculiarities of licensing teachers in the USA; conceptual principles of organizing the modern pre-school and primary compulsory school education, and the American education through the historical view and nowadays; introduced the pre-school and primary school teacher reparation framework in the state of Montana. Coordinators: Olga Kotenko, the Director of the Pedagogical Institute, associate professor; Svitlana Palamar, the Vice-Director in Science, PhD; Natalia Kosharna, the Head of the Foreign Languages and Methodology Department, PhD.

On October 6, 2017, the Ukrainian-Polish-American round-table discussion "Modern Education in the Context of the Public Space Globalization: Challenges, Problems, Prospects"   was held at the Pedagogical Institute of Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University with the participation of professors from the Silesian University (Polish Republic ) Editi Vydavska, Eva Vysotska and Lisa M. Blank, professor of the University of Montana (USA), participant of the Fulbright Exchange Program. The participants of the event were the scientific,   research and educational staff, students of Master degree in “Preschool Education”, “Primary Education” and “Pedagogy of Higher School” specialties. The purpose of round-table   discussion was the establishment of cooperation, exchange of the professional experience, coverage of the state and prospects of the development of science and education of   the mentioned countries. The urgent issues pointed out at the discussion are the specifics of the teacher training for the pre-school and primary education sectors in the United States, the inclusive education in Poland, the problem of the relationship between the state-school-parents in the global dimension, etc. In the course of the round-table discussion, there was a productive dialogue between representatives of education in Ukraine, Poland, and the USA. The round-table discussion was initiated by the Director of the Pedagogical Institute O. Kotenko, Head of the Theory and History of Pedagogy Department L. Khoruzha, Head of the Foreign Languages and  ethodology Department N.Kosharna.