The importance of more stories It has never been more important for children to learn stories. Here is why … Two girls across the world both grew up loving stories. One grew up in Mount Lebanon, a suburb outside of Pittsburgh, PA, that was 99.8% white. The other grew up near a university campus in … Continue reading Why Telling Children Stories May Be the Revolution We Need
One Globe Kids was featured by Childhood Education International in their Childhood Education Innovations magazine, Volume 96 Issue 1. Download the PDF here: Friends Around the World: One Globe Kids. Subscribe to the entire magazine (with tons of new ideas and innovations from schools around the world) on their website. Ready to travel the world with … Continue reading One Globe Kids in Childhood Education Innovations magazine
One of the highlights of our 2019 was to meet so many like-minded people at the AFS conference in Montreal. And as we noticed at conferences before, One Globe Kids seemed to be the only global education program focussing on the roots of global citizenship: confidence in contact in young children. Having diverse friends is … Continue reading One Globe Kids lays the foundation for global citizenship education
Valuable Academic, Educational and Tech partnerships As Director of Education for a small group of schools in the UK I’m drawn to excellent educational ideas that can involve my students. Linking our student expeditions to Mongolia and Kyrgyzstan in summer 2017 to the work of One Globe Kids by having students create new stories for … Continue reading Why I support Globe Smart Kids – Philip Avery, Dir. of Education
New research shows that One Globe Kids can transform how children perceive and interact with the diverse world around them. With support of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, researchers from the University of Kent found how the One Globe Kids program increases intercultural competence in the primary years. Students in the UK participated in … Continue reading Research finds One Globe Kids impacts intercultural competence
Globe Smart Kids helps turn my emotions into action I always tell people I was third culture before third culture was a thing. My mother is from Liberia, my father is from Zimbabwe, and I was born in the United States. I’ve grown up in Liberia and Ohio. Other than having identity issues and embodying … Continue reading Why I support Globe Smart Kids – Chipo Nyambuya, Board Director
Lisa Petro of Know My World visited the GlobalMindEd conference last week and we thank her for sharing her experience here on the One Globe Kids blog! “Global Learning is about understanding your place in the world as an equal.” – Dr. Tonya Muro, i-EARN Executive Director, Global MindEd Conference 2016 On June 9th and … Continue reading GlobalMindEd 2016: Creating Access, Equity and Inclusion
A diverse school district + 10 Global Connectors The motto of Bentonville public schools in Arkansas is “Excellence With Every Step”. This symbolizes their innovating approach and dedication to “educating all students for a successful future in a changing world, preparing the youth of [their] community to become caring, contributing citizens, and creating and maintaining exemplary … Continue reading Global education for grades 1 – 4: A Classroom Case Study
It’s GOLDEN! We are excited to announce that One Globe Kids has been honored with a 2016 Academics’™ Choice Smart Media Award, a prestigious seal of educational quality, reserved only for the best mind-building media and toys. You have probably seen these black/golden awards on toys and books, but they can also be earned by … Continue reading An Academics’ Choice Award for One Globe Kids
Happy to share another One Globe Kids video review! This year we made our first One Globe Kids promo video. That was after we received our first video review ever. And now we can add another One Globe Kids video review to our list that explains perfectly what the app is all about. Thanks Kinder Town! Check it out … Continue reading One Globe Kids video review, by KinderTown!
