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Honor Morman, a Flat Classroom Certified Teacher, shares her thoughts about introducing global collaboration into the curriculum. "Here's what two of my students said about our participation in the Flat Classroom Project, a 12-week project in which we collaborated with 15 other classes in seven different countries to create a vision for the future of education and society based on emerging technologies and the characteristics of the net generation: "[I learned] how important it is to be a member of a global society-communicating globally and working together as a global community is the only way we can solve global issues and improve the lives of all of us. Communicating and collaborating via the web with global partners is how we will do it in future." -Lara "[Participating in this project helped me become] a global leader, able to communicate important global ideas and different perspectives across cultures and borders and share those ideas for the betterment of my community and the world." -Katherine"

The Global Schools Assessment is the best way for a school to benchmark where they are in supporting students' global competence. It is an assessment tool to help determine how global your school is and offer ways to strenthen practice.

"The efforts of the Connect All Schools consortium and like-minded programs, such as Flat Classroom, Edmodo, Twitter chats, Global Read Aloud Day, Skype in the Classroom, Microsoft's Partners in Learning, Global Classroom Scrapbook Project, and the Intel Teach Program, have vastly increased the diversity and number of students gaining global awareness and empathy beyond what would be possible through study abroad alone. Still, only small fraction of U.S. K-12 students currently have access to some kind of international experience, whether physical or virtual."

It'S Back To School We Go!: First Day Stories from Around The World [Ellen Jackson, Jan Davey Ellis] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. In easy-to-read text, describes what the first day of school might be like for a child in Kenya, Kazakhstan, Canada

It'S Back To School We Go!: First Day Stories from Around The World [Ellen Jackson, Jan Davey Ellis] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. In easy-to-read text, describes what the first day of school might be like for a child in Kenya, Kazakhstan, Canada

Great article about how educational leaders can support and encourage global competency within their schools

World reporting. For students, by students. An exciting initiative by the Washington International School that now includes schools all over the world. Journalism and other students writing blog posts and sharing images of news events globally.

This non-profit organization was set up to 'help schools meet the complex challenges of living in a global society'. It is an NGO associated with United Nations

Global ed program

A reasonable article written about international schools and teaching jobs. Interesting how the number of schools has increased in the past 15 years, and how as the less well-off countries become wealthier (eg China) they want their children educated in English. Lots of opportunities for teachers in many places.

Challenge 20/20 links schools around the world in order to tackle global problems to find solutions

In partnership with Elluminate, we are in the process of organizing a free virtual online global education conference to hopefully take place November 15 - 19, 2010. Our conference strands are *tentatively* set to include: Teachers (professional development, training, etc.), Students (student-led initiatives, exchange programs, service learning etc.), Pedagogy (curriculum, digital citizenship, assessment etc. ), Policy and Leadership (exemplary schools, ICT infrastructure, government initiatives etc.), and Change (peace and social justice, equity, etc.).

My presentation at the TICAL School Leadership Summit today