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"Teachers-take your students on a journey across the Americas, from the Arctic to Tierra del Fuego, with Geography Action! Mapping the Americas. Get the whole school involved in creating a jumbo-sized map of the Americas that's so big it can cover the side of a school building or the floor of the cafeteria. Map builders will learn about the cultures, climates, landmarks, and critical issues found in the diverse countries of the Americas."

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.

"Explore UNICEF projects and news from around the world and take action to help children in need. Click each pin to watch a video, listen to a podcast, view a lesson plan or read about a UNICEF project in the field. Download the TeachUNICEF Map Guide for information on how best to integrate the map into your classrom."

There are 17 goals drafted to focus on the most critical universal issues that will affect us all over the next 15 years. These range from ensuring health and wellbeing, to building resilient infrastructure, protecting the biosphere to achieving gender equality. The goals and the issues they address are interdependent, and if fully realized they would see the complete eradication of extreme poverty by 2030 and ensure that urgent action is taken to deal with the threat and impacts of climate change.

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The Future Fit Framework: An introductory guide to teaching and learning forsustainability in HE. A series of video clip form Stephen Sterling explaining the FFF

"For twenty years, The Berkana Institute has worked in friendship and partnership with people around the world who are discovering that there is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about."

"For many years, I've been interested in seeing the world differently. I've wanted to see beyond the Western, mechanical view of the world and see what else might appear when the lens was changed."

Ketso was designed to unleash people's creativity, incorporating ideas from Tony Buzan on Mind Mapping®, Edward de Bono on creative thinking, David Kolb on experiential learning and Howard Gardner on multiple intelligences. Suggestions for how to run workshops are influenced by recent thinking in community development, based on the community's assets instead of starting with problems.

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A new small organisation grappling with us grappling with climate change. Worth a look. Heather Luna did great work for sustainability in UK HE.

"This timeline takes you through the progress of sustainable development from the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring in 1962 to the present day." IISD 2009 www.iisd.org

"This comprehensive volume - containing 27 chapters and contributions from six continents - presents and discusses key principles, perspectives, and practices of social learning in the context of sustainability."

What do we know about the companies that supply much of our food? Can we change anything?

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 GLP is a ground-breaking new programme which will create a national network of like-minded schools, committed to equipping their students to succeed in a globalised world by helping their teachers to deliver effective teaching and learning about development and global issues at Key Stages 2 and 3."

For schools in England. Have a look at the idea.