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Over the last decade, we have built up a global learning community of educators committed to providing their students with opportunities to virtually travel the world and connect with educators and students from around the world to learn with and from one another. The end goal of this community is to help build global citizens by helping them develop their capacity to be globally competent.
“The 21st Century isn’t coming; it’s already here. …Public schools must prepare our young people to understand and address global issues…so that all students can thrive in this global and interdependent society. A coalition for international education cautions that “global competence in the 21st Century is not a luxury, but a necessity.
Global competence must become part of the core mission of education – from K-12 through graduate school.” –Former NEA President Dennis Van Roekel
The New York State Blue Ribbon Commission for Graduation Measures has also made clear the need for global competence education as can easily be seen from their 7 attributes of a portrait of a New York State graduate:
While education thought leaders have long called for educators to build global competence they have not always had the tools and opportunity to do so. We, therefore, want to encourage New York State educators to take full advantage of the global learning community we have built up over the last decade to help their students truly achieve global competence with a view to becoming global citizens.
