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In September 2014, NCDPI staff presented to the Board a framework in which a candidate for the Global Educator Digital Badge would work with his or her principal to create a professional development plan focused on embedding global education in instruction. Candidates for the badge would be required to complete 100 hours or 10 CEUs of global educational professional development and meet a Capstone Project requirement within two years (including acceptance into Home Base as a statewide resource). Upon completion of the requirements, a digital badge would be issued to the teacher at the state level and the designation would be documented in the teacher's Home Base Educator's Professional Development Profile.

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.

Featuring the work of Lucy Gray and Steve Hargadon Download the full Case Study - read about Global Collaboration Day, Global Education Fair and more!

How can states create and implement an action plan to support education goals? Over the past four years, the North Carolina State Board of Education has been analyzing and strengthening global education policies. This week, Helga Fasciano, Special Assistant for Global Education, North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, shares their process, lessons learned, and advice.

"We hope that the Global Education Resource will inspire and empower educators and students to join us and take on the challenge of helping to establish Peace Day 21 September as an annual day of global ceasefire and nonviolence."

Case Study 2.3 in The Global Educator feature Ed Gragert, Executive Director of iEARN for many years. If you want to know where modern-day online global collaboration comes from - Ed is one of the founding gurus.

The term open educational resources (OER) encapsulates the simple but powerful idea that the world's knowledge is a public good. The internet offers unprecedented opportunities to share, use and reuse knowledge. Sadly, most of the planet is underserved when it comes to post-secondary education.

If you are interested in networking with others participating in the Global Education Conference, please leave your information here. Partners, sponsors, presenters, volunteers and attendees are all welcome! This spreadsheet will be public, so that others can find you. For more information about the conference, please visit http://globaleducationconference.com where you can sign up for general information updates and to present on this site. Our social network supporting the conference will be the Global Education Collaborative: http://globaleducation.ning.com.

I recently had the privilege of attending the annual Global Educators Conference at La Jolla. I wrote about the experience on my blog. I thought I would share here as I also posted many of the resources we encountered. 

Vivien Stewart, Vice President for Education at the Asia Society, on the economic impact of education policy in a global economy

This IS education. You must watch this!

This IS education. You must watch this!

This IS education. You must watch this!

Fantastic resource for global educators.  Variety of lessons and materials for specific age groups. I have used a number of these lessons with my 7th grade Global Cultures students.