GLOBAL EDUCATION TOOLKIT

This collection of resources helps students explore global issues with local relevance, strengthening their cultural awareness, curiosity, and storytelling skills. By connecting classroom learning to real-world contexts, educators can nurture globally-minded citizens who understand how their local stories fit into a larger, interconnected world. Whether you're teaching current events, social studies, or media literacy, this toolkit offers project-based tools to inspire students to think globally as they tell stories that matter.

• Music, dance, community & culture
• Food, family, community & culture
• Is pop culture inclusive?
• Exploring Immigrant Experiences
• America's hidden histories
• Statues, symbols & stories
• Recording Oral History

• Engineering: Our People, Our Planet - How we shape our world
• What does climate change look like in your community
• Invention & design stories that inspire us
• Living through a natural disaster
• Health Innovators & Innovation

• Art & social change
• From book bans to bills
• Mass shootings and gun violence
• Being a Changemaker: your impact
• Encouraging empathy in class discussions
• Power in Numbers

• Find Your Story
• Shifting the frame
• What makes a good interview
• What is newsworthy?

• Ready for the real world?
• How is AI disrupting education?
• What they didn’t teach me in school

This toolkit was made possible with support from the Longview Foundation. Special thanks to our Global Educator Advisory Board for their insights and contributions: Pilar Álamo Correa, Dr. Pedro Cabrera, Julie Knutson, Sera Shortland, Chris Sloan, and Dr. Sequoyah Wharton.