A River, Trail, Mountain or Settlement Runs Through It: Going Global by Starting with Features Close to Home
Educator Kelly Clark shares her ideas on how teachers can make the local global by using a natural feature like a river to teach about geography, economics and history. #KentuckyLeads #raisingglobalchildren @KYDeptofEd
Read MoreMaking Language Immersion Fun, Camp-style
Looking for summer camp options with a twist? Something unlike any other program, yet fun for kids aged 7-18? Tucked away in the northern woods of Minnesota is one of the best-kept secrets in language learning in the U.S.: Concordia Language Villages. #languagematters #langchat #raisingglobalchildren #generationstudyabroad
Read MoreCreating a #NationofAdvocates: From 90% Target Language to 90% Retention
Guest blogger, Grant Boulanger, writes about the race and gender disparity affecting students taking world languages and offers first-hand tips for educators to contribute to the solution: Inspire students with meaningful, relevant, fair, joyful and effective language learning so that students keep learning and coming back for more. #NationofAdvocates
Read MoreStacie Berdan Launches New Go Global Video
Inspiring video created for K-16 students, educators, administrators & parents about the importance of developing a global mindset — and HOW to do it.
Read MoreKids Having Fun with Food: A Global Adventure
Global education doesn’t have to be something formal or solely academic. We can learn about each other on a human level through sharing of culture, especially foods.
Read MoreGlobal Education Is Proven to Be Better General Education
Global education, the term itself creates confusion and consternation among academics, but can be defined as teaching children about the world and thereby helping them develop a global mindset. It includes learning a foreign language and provides a much better overall education for today’s children.
Read MoreFriendships Across Cultures
Wherever we live, we should expect to be sharing our schools, communities, neighborhoods, clubs, and houses of worship with people from increasingly diverse backgrounds, the ones that globalization brought here. With this diverse population, our children have the important means of building friendships with different children to bridge the gap between cultures.
Read MoreWhat Does Language Proficiency Mean?
Proficiency in a second language takes a lot of practice — or time on task. ACTFL’s AAPPL test can determine a student’s level and help track progress over the years.
Read MoreDon’t Kill Foreign-language Learning
How can we prepare our students for a global world without foreign language instruction? How can we make America great again while destroying the programs our children need to compete in today’s global marketplace?
Read MoreStudying Spanish Along the Pan-American Highway
Originally appeared in the Huffington Post on July 25. My family and I just returned from a few weeks traveling through Central America. Originally, we planned on going to Greece and Turkey, but the economic strife, strikes and riots in Greece had us changing our minds – and scrambling for a Plan B. I wanted […]
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