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Resource :: Anusibuno, Sasha, Cidinha & Shakeel

by Cate

by :: Cate Check out this great resource by Oxfam: Cool Planet and meet 4 kids who live in various countries around the world: :: Anusibuno – Zuo, Ghana. :: Sasha – Lekarstvennoye, Russia. :: Cidinha – Ludovico, Brazil. :: Shakeel – Hyderabad, India. Follow these students through a typical day, from waking up and going to school to playing. Learn about [...]

It’s All About You! October Edition

by Anamaria

by :: Anamaria It’s all about you: our readers. No matter how passionate one is about something, sometimes there just aren’t enough hours in the day to devote ourselves to that passion as much as we would like. We’re sure you know what we mean! We know our readers are passionate about education. And that [...]

More School Photos from Argentina

by Cate

by :: Cate Pamela and I are working on a project that helps students develop their cultural, language, and technology skills (we’ll share the project with everyone in a couple weeks). So when I was in Argentina in September, Pamela planned her classes so I could visit some of her students right around the time they were working [...]

Children Full of Life

by Cate

by :: Cate Would you like to see what going to elementary school is like in Japan? How about an amazingly passionate, courageous, and skillful teacher? The videos below are part of an award-winning documentary called Children Full of Life. It follows Toshiro Kanamori and his 4th grade students through aschool year in Kanazawa, northwest of Tokyo. We could all learn something from Mr. Kanamori, even if [...]

Sleepy? Go to the Kennedy School

by Cate

by :: Cate What? Sleep in school? Where in the world can you fall asleep in school and not get in trouble? At the Kennedy School in Portland, Oregon. Built in 1915, this beloved Northeast Portland neighborhood school closed its doors in the late 70′s. The building remained abandoned until brothers Brian and Mike McMenamin converted the school into a hotel, [...]

4 Kid’s Books that Promote Cross-Cultural Awareness

by Cate

by :: Cate If you’d like to cultivate intercultural competence in kids, a great place to start is with developing curiosity, openness to, and respect for difference. Books that take a cross-cultural peek at daily life around the world are fantastic resources for helping young kids develop the attitudes on which further intercultural knowledge and skills [...]

Schultüte Resource #4 :: Using Friday Fotos to Discuss Culture & Global Issues

by Anamaria

by :: Anamaria Welcome to the final day of Schultüte Week! (Wondering what a Schultüte is? Stop here and read last Monday’s post.) Each day last week we posted a nifty resource from our virtual Schultüte of Cross-Cultural Resources for Busy Educators. photo by nlnnet We planned to post this final resource last Friday. But wouldn’t you know it, we encountered [...]

Schultüte Resource #2 :: 16 Free Cross-Cultural Games, Projects & Resources

by Cate

by :: Cate Welcome back to Schultüte Week! (Wondering what a Schultüte is? Stop here and read Monday’s post. ) Each day this week we’re pulling a nifty resource out of our virtual Schultüte of Cross-Cultural Resources for Busy Educators. photo by nlnnet Yesterday’s resource featured 43 Cross-Cultural Quotes for the Classroom (pdf). Today’s resource? 16 cross-cultural games, projects, and resources [...]

Friday Foto :: Story Time

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