World Savy: World Savvy’s approach to learning is based on the belief that students learn best when they are engaged in relevant and important issues that impact their communities and the world. We believe that students’ lived experiences and perspectives are assets that can be leveraged in learning every day. Their four guiding principles include: cultivating connections, reflecting & adapting, fostering knowledge-to-action, and promoting interdisciplinary learning. Their competencies may vary a little from other sources, and their take on global education is very in-depth and though-provoking. I find myself going back to their information often.

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Empowering Students to Improve the World in 60 Lessons: A full book by Fernando Reimers that provides excellent information about what it is to be a global citizen and learner as well as the aforementioned sixty lessons across all ages and subjects. 

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UNSDGs: From this landing page you can not only find all seventeen global goals, but also explore artists who work with each goal, action to take, and national days of recognition tied to the goals.

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Project Zero & Global Ed: Harvard's Veronica Boix Mansilla lays out articles, publications, ready-to-use teacher resources in this primer on global education. Start here for a very thorough overview and quickly get pulled into the depths f what it means to be a 21st century student.   

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Art for Social Good: Fifteen public artworks across the country and world that advocate for social change.

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Learning About the World's Cultures: This collection of sites dives deeper than flags and festivals. It also includes resources about world poverty, literature and examples of school lunches and living situations across the world that will open your students eyes and minds. 

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The World's Largest Lesson: Resource guide for lesson plans that connect with each of the global sustainability goals and categorized based on age/grade. These topic links cover the most relevant issues that we face as a global community at this time. Pair these plans up with your focus standards. ​

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Youth Guid to Global Goals: a book for students, this resource focuses on introducing the global goals through awareness, service, advocacy, and philanthropy. There is student-friendly information on each goal, as well as how to take action.

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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.

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Asia Society: One of the preeminent resources for all things global ed.  The Center for Global Education offers a wealth of resources to educators, including those who teach in afterschool or out-of-school time networks, to build capacity and transform their learning environments. Whether you're looking for professional development opportunities, training and consulting services, or online resources, you've come to the right place!

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Teaching for Global Competence in a Rapidly Changing World

In an effort to engage students in their learning, this text provides teachers with practical approaches to:

• structured debates

• organized discussions

• current events discussion

• playing games

• project based learning

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Culturally Responsive Education Hub: Not sure where to start with CRE?  This website has a multitude of resources to get you started, from book  recommendations for you and students to lessons.  My favorite aspect is the focus on stories.

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Preparing Students for Global Citizenship: Books for Students. Current book recommendations for students of all ages with a heavy focus on inclusivity and globalization.

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NYT Learning Network: 

The Learning Network publishes about 1,000 teaching resources each school year, all based on using Times content — articles, essays, images, videos, graphics and podcasts — as teaching tools across subject areas. These resources can be used in a number of ways, and are completely free to educators​. Components include daily current events, news quizzes, lesson plans, and a neat feature called teenagers in time.

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