Global Ready Classrooms, Studies & Communities
We seek to weave global competence into the fabric of school and teacher experiences to engage and inspire the people living in them to want to connect more meaningfully to the world.
What work do we support?
- Resource and System Development: those systems seeking to embed global competence into the classroom level through resource development, virtual exchange, and long-term investments in a public education system that support global knowledge and skills. This grant category focuses on implementing global ready knowledge and skills for students and professional development for educators both during regular school hours and in out-of-school time settings.
- Development of Youth Voice and Civic agency: in tackling issues of global significance such as climate action and making global-local connections.
Who qualifies?
- State and District Education Agencies and Coalitions
- Nonprofits serving large numbers of schools/students across a state/district or across the United States
- Pedagogy, content, curriculum, resources – tools, not PD - PD should apply under Internationalization of Teacher Preparation
Exploring International and Intercultural Understanding through Global Literature
A new guide, Exploring International and Intercultural Understanding through Global Literature, provides examples of how K-12 teachers worked together in study groups to integrate global children's and adolescent literature in their schools. The guide includes links to teacher vignettes that provide rich details of classroom experiences and books that encourage global perspectives along with structures for teacher study groups. Download the new Worlds of Words literacy communities guide here.