AFS-USA
AFS-USA (formerly the American Field Service), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, is a leader in intercultural learning and offers international exchange programs in more than 40 countries around the world through independent, nonprofit AFS Organizations, each with a network of volunteers, a professionally staffed office, and headed up by a volunteer board. We’ve been exchanging students…
Asia Society
The Center for Global Education at Asia Society has a vision that, in an interconnected global era, all youth from all countries and cultures will have the capacity to create, participate in, and benefit from a peaceful and prosperous world. We are working toward this vision accomplish this through a variety of initiatives, professional development offerings, partnerships, and resources, and we…
Blue Planet Writers' Room
Blue Planet Writers' Room is a non-profit organization that connects American students to groups of their peers overseas to engage in international story exchanges. Drawing on a decade of experience designing, implementing, and teaching teachers how to create global projects, Cora Bresciano and Dr. Susan Gay Hyatt, Blue Planet's founders and co-executive directors, lead vibrant, hands-on…
CAPspace (Collaborations Around the Planet)
Where Do You Want to Go Today? A collaborative videoconference project gives you and your students an opportunity to learn with another school or classroom. CAPspace is a social networking tool for educational videoconferencing. Login to find colleagues and schools interested in collaborative videoconference projects. Create and advertise your own collaborative videoconference projects to…
Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education
Our mission ignites our work: To inspire, nurture and educate leaders for tomorrow’s technology-centric environment while contributing to the solutions of the most challenging problems of our time. CIESE develops and supports effective innovative curricula and professional development and conducts research in order to inspire, catalyze and strengthen scientific, technological, engineering and…
Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration
The Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration (CILC), established in 1994 as a nonprofit, specializes in the access to applications and the utilization of video conferencing for live interactive content and professional development, as well as web-based collaborative learning environments for K-20 education.
Creative Connections
Creative Connections, an international cultural education organization, creates and facilitates innovative arts-based exchanges between classrooms in the USA and their peers around the world. These exchanges teach global competency by promoting awareness, understanding and appreciation of other cultures, customs and traditions.
Dear You
All Dear You participating schools are organized to have a Dear You friend roughly the same age in another country. Dear You provides workshops or lesson plans for the children to create their art projects, which are then posted to their Dear You friend school abroad. Each project takes about 60-90 minutes to complete. Through Dear You’s initiative, the participants develop art, reading,…
Digital Promise Global
Digital Promise Global is a nonprofit organization working to spur innovation in education. By working with educators, entrepreneurs, researchers, and leading thinkers, Digital Promise Global designs programs that help young people from all backgrounds become empowered, ethical users of emerging technologies.
Empatico
Empatico is a free online tool for teachers to connect their classrooms with others around the world. Empatico allows teachers and students to virtually meet and interact using seamless video conferencing technology and fun, easy activities designed by educators. Visit www.empatico.org to learn more.
ePals
ePals connects users from around the globe, providing the tools and meeting places to create a worldwide community of learners.
Flat Connections
Flat Connections provides unique approaches to online global collaboration. We 'flatten' the disconnected classroom to become a global learning environment of the future. Flat Connections provides online global collaborative projects for all levels of K-12 and online courses for educators and education leaders who want to take their learning and their classroom global. Educators across the world…
Global Education Motivators (GEM)
Global Education Motivators (GEM) was founded in 1981 as a non-profit organization to help schools and the community meet the complex challenges of living in a global society. Emphasizing human rights and human responsibility, GEM is now educating a second generation to global awareness and responsibility in an interdependent world. GEM is a non-governmental-organization (NGO) in association…
Global Friendship Through Space Education
Global Friendship Through Space Education (GFTSE) is a California-based 501(c) 3 non-profit organization founded in 2002. It is dedicated to promoting friendship among young people from different countries and cultures through the study of space-related science and technology. GFTSE `s goal of global friendship is accomplished through our Partner School Science Program and Scholarship Program -…
Global Glimpse
Global Glimpse is an educational non-profit that was born out of a need for high quality global education in the United States. We believe that exposure to different countries, cultures, and people provides important perspective and drives young people to take action to better their world together. Global Glimpse works to make experiential education abroad accessible to outstanding students from…
Global Nomads Group
Global Nomads Group (GNG) fosters dialogue and understanding among the world's youth. By leveraging technology, we enable conversations between middle school and high school students who otherwise would not meet. Using interactive technologies such as videoconferencing, GNG brings young people together face-to-face to meet across cultural and national boundaries to discuss their differences and…
Global Oneness Project
The Global Oneness Project believes that stories play a powerful role in education. Founded in 2006, they are committed to the exploration of cultural, environmental, and social issues. They house a rich library of free multimedia stories comprised of our award-winning films, photo essays, and articles, accompanied by companion curriculum for teachers. Their curriculum, available in both English…
Global Read Aloud
One Book to Connect the World
Global Students - Global Perspectives
We run various global collaboration projects each year and have found them to be revolutionary in the way our students learn.
ICONS Project
The ICONS Project creates simulations and scenario-driven exercises to advance participants' understanding of complex problems and strengthen their ability to make decisions, navigate crises, think strategically, and negotiate collaboratively.
iEARN
iEARN is a non-profit organization made up of over 30,000 schools and youth organizations in more than 140 countries. iEARN empowers teachers and young people to work together online using the Internet and other new communications technologies. Over 2,000,000 students each day are engaged in collaborative project work worldwide.
iEARN-USA
The vision of iEARN-USA is an interconnected, peaceful and just world. The mission of iEARN-USA is to empower young people, their schools and their communities through global collaboration and transformative learning. iEARN-USA is a global education organization that provides various pathways for educators and students to connect and learn with their international peers. Our approach to global…
International Ambassadors Academy
Promote global citizenship & collaboration. Expand world views and cultural appreciation. International exchange of ideas, goals, & skills. Explore foreign languages & cultures. Students and teachers can virtually upload a writing piece, a mixed media piece, or a photo of a piece of art that they created to convey what they are grateful for. All submissions will be compiled into a digital book…
IVECA
Center for International Virtual Schooling (d.b.a. IVECA International Virtual Schooling) is a US-based 501c(3) non-profit organization in Special Consultative Status with the United Nations ECOSOC and associated with the UN-DPI. The Center coordinate and conduct the International Virtual Schooling project in a systematic and practical way. Through the internationally connected school system, the…
Journeys in Film
Journeys in Film has been a leading force in global education for over a decade. We combine the power of moving and provocative films with the highest quality standards-based lesson plans to inspire and engage students in learning. Journeys in Film is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and is working in partnership with USC’s Rossier School of Education. Rossier’s (ross-EAR) mission is to improve…
Kids on Earth
Kids on Earth is a collaborative effort with educators, nonprofits, and NGOs around the world. Mostly, we interview children and teenagers from 8 years old to 15 years old. Old enough to be able to tell a good story. Young enough to still be considered a kid. We spend nearly a half hour with every interviewee, then edit the material so it can be watched in 1-6 minute segments. Our goal is to…
Know My World
Know My World is a global education resource that coaches teachers in digital shared learning experiences with classrooms all over the globe. Through social, emotional, cultural and academic learning, Know My World offers a variety of programs and professional development opportunities to bring global education into your community.
Middlebury Interactive Languages
Middlebury Interactive Languages is the academic leader in digital language learning for K-12 students. We provide access to superior world language and English Language Learner curriculum solutions that prepare students with the skills and cultural understanding to compete in the 21st Century global marketplace. Middlebury Interactive has taken principles of Middlebury College's renowned world…
OneWorld Classrooms
OneWorld Classrooms is an educational nonprofit whose mission is to build bridges of learning and understanding between global K-12 classrooms through the arts and technology. We run an annual K-12 Global Art Exchange, offer curriculum-based global connections through our Classroom Conversations with the World program, and host a free Student to Student Language Lab featuring students in China…
Participate
All learners deserve access to quality education that prepares them to succeed in an increasingly global society. Participate strives to be a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens that empowers learners to engage with the world around them. As a proud B Corporation, we promise to support educators as they actively participate in learning communities, ignite change and create impact on a…
Primary Source
We are a 28-year-old nonprofit organization that works to advance global education in schools. We believe in the power of understanding the world from diverse perspectives and a future in which all individuals are informed and contributing global citizens.
Project Everyone
Project Everyone seeks to put the power of great communications behind The Sustainable Development Goals (also known as the Global Goals), accelerating the creation of a fairer world by 2030, where extreme poverty has been eradicated, climate change is properly addressed and injustice and inequality are unacceptable. Our mission is to ensure that everyone on the planet knows what the Global Goals…
Reach the World
All youth need a global network to help them activate their own global journeys through work and life. All schools need to prepare students for a world where global collaboration and cooperation is the norm. Combating the ignorance that breeds fear and intolerance begins with young people. Reach the World transforms the energy of travelers into a learning resource for K-12 classrooms. Our…
Rock Our World
Rock Our World is an international education non-profit that works with students around the globe to collaborate in original music composition, movie making and meet each other in face-to-face video chats.
Roots & Shoots
Jane Goodall’s Roots & Shoots is the Jane Goodall Institute’s (JGI) global youth-led community action program, comprised of thousands of young people inspired by Dr. Jane Goodall to make the world a better place. The program builds on the legacy and vision of Dr. Jane Goodall to place the power and resources for creating practical solutions to big challenges in the hands of the young…
TakingITGlobal
TakingITGlobal is one of the world's leading networks of young people learning about, engaging with, and working towards tackling global challenges. By bringing together Digital Youth Engagement, Global Education and Social Innovation programming, TakingITGlobal seeks to empower youth and their allies to ensure every young person and their interest has a place to learn, grow and flourish.
The Centre for Global Education
The Centre for Global Education develops and delivers virtual projects to engage and empower youth as agents of change, through connecting them to the people and places they are learning about.
The Collaboratory: Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs
The Collaboratory designs, pilots, and spreads new ways to further educational and cultural diplomacy. Past work has included developing new programmatic tools for the Department, cultivating best practices for the use of technology in exchanges, and coordinating major initiatives like Education Diplomacy. The Collaboratory also works to advance new work methods that allow State Department teams…
The Hague International Model United Nations
The THIMUN mission is to promote and foster collaborative solution-oriented discussion to important issues by instilling life-long passion for improving our global community into today's youth, who will be tomorrow's leaders. Attendants of THIMUN conferences aims to seek, through discussion, negotiation and debate, solutions to the various problems of the world: e.g. questions of human rights,…
UNESCO
UNESCO (United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization) is responsible for coordinating international cooperation in education, science, culture and communication. It strengthens the ties between nations and societies, and mobilizes the wider public so that each child and citizen: has access to quality education; a basic human right and an indispensable prerequisite for…
Virtual Exchange Coalition
Founded in 2011, the Virtual Exchange Coalition comprises diverse practitioners working together to foster a more supportive and generative ecosystem for virtual exchange programming to develop, innovate and grow. Our goal is to make it possible for all young people to have a meaningful cross-cultural experience as part of their education.
World Savvy
World Savvy is a national education nonprofit that works with educators, schools, and districts to integrate the highest quality of global competence teaching and learning into K-12 classrooms, so all young people can be prepared to engage, succeed, and meet the challenges of 21st century citizenship.
WorldVuze
WorldVuze is a free online platform where K-12 students can safely engage in meaningful discussions, as if they’re one big global classroom. On WorldVuze students can share their own perspectives, as well as explore and compare the multiple and diverse perspectives of other students’, locally, nationally and around the world on questions from the environment, health, culture, to media and current…
#GlobalSpeedChat
Created by two teachers, #GlobalSpeedChat is a curriculum that includes quick, easy (ready to go), digital activities that teachers, school leaders, and club organizers can do with their students to build an awareness of others in our world. We believe that the best way for kids to really get to know each other is to give them opportunities to collaborate--do something together. Through this,…
AFS-USA
AFS-USA (formerly the American Field Service), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, is a leader in intercultural learning and offers international exchange programs in more than 40 countries around the world through independent, nonprofit AFS Organizations, each with a network of volunteers, a professionally staffed office, and headed up by a volunteer board. We’ve been exchanging students…
Asia Society
The Center for Global Education at Asia Society has a vision that, in an interconnected global era, all youth from all countries and cultures will have the capacity to create, participate in, and benefit from a peaceful and prosperous world. We are working toward this vision accomplish this through a variety of initiatives, professional development offerings, partnerships, and resources, and we…
Blue Planet Writers' Room
Blue Planet Writers' Room is a non-profit organization that connects American students to groups of their peers overseas to engage in international story exchanges. Drawing on a decade of experience designing, implementing, and teaching teachers how to create global projects, Cora Bresciano and Dr. Susan Gay Hyatt, Blue Planet's founders and co-executive directors, lead vibrant, hands-on…
CAPspace (Collaborations Around the Planet)
Where Do You Want to Go Today? A collaborative videoconference project gives you and your students an opportunity to learn with another school or classroom. CAPspace is a social networking tool for educational videoconferencing. Login to find colleagues and schools interested in collaborative videoconference projects. Create and advertise your own collaborative videoconference projects to…
Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education
Our mission ignites our work: To inspire, nurture and educate leaders for tomorrow’s technology-centric environment while contributing to the solutions of the most challenging problems of our time. CIESE develops and supports effective innovative curricula and professional development and conducts research in order to inspire, catalyze and strengthen scientific, technological, engineering and…
Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration
The Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration (CILC), established in 1994 as a nonprofit, specializes in the access to applications and the utilization of video conferencing for live interactive content and professional development, as well as web-based collaborative learning environments for K-20 education.
Creative Connections
Creative Connections, an international cultural education organization, creates and facilitates innovative arts-based exchanges between classrooms in the USA and their peers around the world. These exchanges teach global competency by promoting awareness, understanding and appreciation of other cultures, customs and traditions.
Dear You
All Dear You participating schools are organized to have a Dear You friend roughly the same age in another country. Dear You provides workshops or lesson plans for the children to create their art projects, which are then posted to their Dear You friend school abroad. Each project takes about 60-90 minutes to complete. Through Dear You’s initiative, the participants develop art, reading,…
Digital Promise Global
Digital Promise Global is a nonprofit organization working to spur innovation in education. By working with educators, entrepreneurs, researchers, and leading thinkers, Digital Promise Global designs programs that help young people from all backgrounds become empowered, ethical users of emerging technologies.
Empatico
Empatico is a free online tool for teachers to connect their classrooms with others around the world. Empatico allows teachers and students to virtually meet and interact using seamless video conferencing technology and fun, easy activities designed by educators. Visit www.empatico.org to learn more.
ePals
ePals connects users from around the globe, providing the tools and meeting places to create a worldwide community of learners.
Flat Connections
Flat Connections provides unique approaches to online global collaboration. We 'flatten' the disconnected classroom to become a global learning environment of the future. Flat Connections provides online global collaborative projects for all levels of K-12 and online courses for educators and education leaders who want to take their learning and their classroom global. Educators across the world…
Global Education Motivators (GEM)
Global Education Motivators (GEM) was founded in 1981 as a non-profit organization to help schools and the community meet the complex challenges of living in a global society. Emphasizing human rights and human responsibility, GEM is now educating a second generation to global awareness and responsibility in an interdependent world. GEM is a non-governmental-organization (NGO) in association…
Global Friendship Through Space Education
Global Friendship Through Space Education (GFTSE) is a California-based 501(c) 3 non-profit organization founded in 2002. It is dedicated to promoting friendship among young people from different countries and cultures through the study of space-related science and technology. GFTSE `s goal of global friendship is accomplished through our Partner School Science Program and Scholarship Program -…
Global Glimpse
Global Glimpse is an educational non-profit that was born out of a need for high quality global education in the United States. We believe that exposure to different countries, cultures, and people provides important perspective and drives young people to take action to better their world together. Global Glimpse works to make experiential education abroad accessible to outstanding students from…
Global Nomads Group
Global Nomads Group (GNG) fosters dialogue and understanding among the world's youth. By leveraging technology, we enable conversations between middle school and high school students who otherwise would not meet. Using interactive technologies such as videoconferencing, GNG brings young people together face-to-face to meet across cultural and national boundaries to discuss their differences and…
Global Oneness Project
The Global Oneness Project believes that stories play a powerful role in education. Founded in 2006, they are committed to the exploration of cultural, environmental, and social issues. They house a rich library of free multimedia stories comprised of our award-winning films, photo essays, and articles, accompanied by companion curriculum for teachers. Their curriculum, available in both English…
Global Read Aloud
One Book to Connect the World
Global Students - Global Perspectives
We run various global collaboration projects each year and have found them to be revolutionary in the way our students learn.
ICONS Project
The ICONS Project creates simulations and scenario-driven exercises to advance participants' understanding of complex problems and strengthen their ability to make decisions, navigate crises, think strategically, and negotiate collaboratively.
iEARN
iEARN is a non-profit organization made up of over 30,000 schools and youth organizations in more than 140 countries. iEARN empowers teachers and young people to work together online using the Internet and other new communications technologies. Over 2,000,000 students each day are engaged in collaborative project work worldwide.
iEARN-USA
The vision of iEARN-USA is an interconnected, peaceful and just world. The mission of iEARN-USA is to empower young people, their schools and their communities through global collaboration and transformative learning. iEARN-USA is a global education organization that provides various pathways for educators and students to connect and learn with their international peers. Our approach to global…
International Ambassadors Academy
Promote global citizenship & collaboration. Expand world views and cultural appreciation. International exchange of ideas, goals, & skills. Explore foreign languages & cultures. Students and teachers can virtually upload a writing piece, a mixed media piece, or a photo of a piece of art that they created to convey what they are grateful for. All submissions will be compiled into a digital book…
IVECA
Center for International Virtual Schooling (d.b.a. IVECA International Virtual Schooling) is a US-based 501c(3) non-profit organization in Special Consultative Status with the United Nations ECOSOC and associated with the UN-DPI. The Center coordinate and conduct the International Virtual Schooling project in a systematic and practical way. Through the internationally connected school system, the…
Journeys in Film
Journeys in Film has been a leading force in global education for over a decade. We combine the power of moving and provocative films with the highest quality standards-based lesson plans to inspire and engage students in learning. Journeys in Film is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and is working in partnership with USC’s Rossier School of Education. Rossier’s (ross-EAR) mission is to improve…
Kids on Earth
Kids on Earth is a collaborative effort with educators, nonprofits, and NGOs around the world. Mostly, we interview children and teenagers from 8 years old to 15 years old. Old enough to be able to tell a good story. Young enough to still be considered a kid. We spend nearly a half hour with every interviewee, then edit the material so it can be watched in 1-6 minute segments. Our goal is to…
Know My World
Know My World is a global education resource that coaches teachers in digital shared learning experiences with classrooms all over the globe. Through social, emotional, cultural and academic learning, Know My World offers a variety of programs and professional development opportunities to bring global education into your community.
Middlebury Interactive Languages
Middlebury Interactive Languages is the academic leader in digital language learning for K-12 students. We provide access to superior world language and English Language Learner curriculum solutions that prepare students with the skills and cultural understanding to compete in the 21st Century global marketplace. Middlebury Interactive has taken principles of Middlebury College's renowned world…
OneWorld Classrooms
OneWorld Classrooms is an educational nonprofit whose mission is to build bridges of learning and understanding between global K-12 classrooms through the arts and technology. We run an annual K-12 Global Art Exchange, offer curriculum-based global connections through our Classroom Conversations with the World program, and host a free Student to Student Language Lab featuring students in China…
Participate
All learners deserve access to quality education that prepares them to succeed in an increasingly global society. Participate strives to be a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens that empowers learners to engage with the world around them. As a proud B Corporation, we promise to support educators as they actively participate in learning communities, ignite change and create impact on a…
Primary Source
We are a 28-year-old nonprofit organization that works to advance global education in schools. We believe in the power of understanding the world from diverse perspectives and a future in which all individuals are informed and contributing global citizens.
Project Everyone
Project Everyone seeks to put the power of great communications behind The Sustainable Development Goals (also known as the Global Goals), accelerating the creation of a fairer world by 2030, where extreme poverty has been eradicated, climate change is properly addressed and injustice and inequality are unacceptable. Our mission is to ensure that everyone on the planet knows what the Global Goals…
Reach the World
All youth need a global network to help them activate their own global journeys through work and life. All schools need to prepare students for a world where global collaboration and cooperation is the norm. Combating the ignorance that breeds fear and intolerance begins with young people. Reach the World transforms the energy of travelers into a learning resource for K-12 classrooms. Our…
Rock Our World
Rock Our World is an international education non-profit that works with students around the globe to collaborate in original music composition, movie making and meet each other in face-to-face video chats.
Roots & Shoots
Jane Goodall’s Roots & Shoots is the Jane Goodall Institute’s (JGI) global youth-led community action program, comprised of thousands of young people inspired by Dr. Jane Goodall to make the world a better place. The program builds on the legacy and vision of Dr. Jane Goodall to place the power and resources for creating practical solutions to big challenges in the hands of the young…
TakingITGlobal
TakingITGlobal is one of the world's leading networks of young people learning about, engaging with, and working towards tackling global challenges. By bringing together Digital Youth Engagement, Global Education and Social Innovation programming, TakingITGlobal seeks to empower youth and their allies to ensure every young person and their interest has a place to learn, grow and flourish.
The Centre for Global Education
The Centre for Global Education develops and delivers virtual projects to engage and empower youth as agents of change, through connecting them to the people and places they are learning about.
The Collaboratory: Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs
The Collaboratory designs, pilots, and spreads new ways to further educational and cultural diplomacy. Past work has included developing new programmatic tools for the Department, cultivating best practices for the use of technology in exchanges, and coordinating major initiatives like Education Diplomacy. The Collaboratory also works to advance new work methods that allow State Department teams…
The Hague International Model United Nations
The THIMUN mission is to promote and foster collaborative solution-oriented discussion to important issues by instilling life-long passion for improving our global community into today's youth, who will be tomorrow's leaders. Attendants of THIMUN conferences aims to seek, through discussion, negotiation and debate, solutions to the various problems of the world: e.g. questions of human rights,…
UNESCO
UNESCO (United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization) is responsible for coordinating international cooperation in education, science, culture and communication. It strengthens the ties between nations and societies, and mobilizes the wider public so that each child and citizen: has access to quality education; a basic human right and an indispensable prerequisite for…
Virtual Exchange Coalition
Founded in 2011, the Virtual Exchange Coalition comprises diverse practitioners working together to foster a more supportive and generative ecosystem for virtual exchange programming to develop, innovate and grow. Our goal is to make it possible for all young people to have a meaningful cross-cultural experience as part of their education.
World Savvy
World Savvy is a national education nonprofit that works with educators, schools, and districts to integrate the highest quality of global competence teaching and learning into K-12 classrooms, so all young people can be prepared to engage, succeed, and meet the challenges of 21st century citizenship.