Global Educator Digital Badge
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How prepared are you to foster global awareness in your students or support that in your classrooms or schools?The Global Educator Digital Badge provides an opportunity for educators to focus their professional development on developing their own global context and understanding of how to integrate global education throughout curricula. It also provides the opportunity to build global competency in students.The State Board of Education approved North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge (GEDB) is available for the following educator categories: Teacher, Teacher Leadership Specialist, Library Media Coordinator, Instructional Technology Facilitator, School Counselor, Career Development Coordinator, School Social Worker, School Psychologist, Speech Language Pathologist, Instructional Central Office Staff, Principal/Assistant Principal, Superintendent. For more information on the Badge (SBE Policy, FAQs, Process Flyer, Implementation Guide, MOA), please visit our website or contact NCGlobalEducation@dpi.nc.gov.
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East Carolina University Develops Virtual Exchange Courses With Support of Title VI Grant
Last fall, East Carolina University (ECU) successfully launched the Global Business, Education, Environment, and Health International Virtual Exchange (BEEHIVE) global business course in collaboration with Mexico's Universidad de Monterrey, France's Université de Tours, and China Pharmaceutical University. This is the first of four international virtual exchange courses being developed as a part of the "Global BEEHIVE" project supported by a grant from the Title VI Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language Program. Learn more.
Navigating the New NCDPI Website to the Global Education Pages
The new NCDPI website went live in early December, and the former NC Public Schools website now redirects users to the new website.
Global Education is one of several programs and initiatives directly related to the work of the K-12 Standards, Curriculum, and Instruction Division as well as the State Board of Education's vision, mission, and goals. Take a look at the new Global Education landing page, along with the sub-pages that contain details about:
Contact the NCDPI Global Education Steering Committee at ncglobaleducation@dpi.nc.gov with feedback on the new pages.
Professional Learning Opportunities
2020 CARLA Summer Institute Program for Language Teachers (online and Minneapolis, MN)
The Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA) at the University of Minnesota has provided high-quality professional development for language teachers for over two decades. Launched in 1996, this internationally known program reflects CARLA's commitment to link research and theory with practical applications for the classroom. Each institute is highly interactive and includes discussion, hands-on activities, and networking. CARLA summer institute participants—more than 6,300 to date—have come from every state and from countries all over the world. They have included foreign/world language, ESL/EFL, heritage language, and immersion educators at all levels of instruction, as well as program administrators, curriculum specialists, and language teacher educators. Join CARLA for the 25th annual Summer Institute Program in 2020! Registration is now open. Learn more.
The Middle East and African Cultures Teacher Fellows Program is a funded, eight-month intensive fellowship for teachers to explore Middle Eastern and African history, cultures, and diaspora through structured experiential learning experiences across North Carolina. Running March to December 2020, this program aims to enhance teacher expertise in Middle Eastern and African studies in part by making relevant connections to local communities. Visit the website to learn more, and see a video about the last program MEAC.
Fellows will Receive:
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Intensive and ongoing professional development throughout the year-long program
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Access to scholars and community experts specializing in the Middle East and Africa, culturally competent pedagogy, and related topics
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Free meals at each session, at the orientation, and culminating workshop
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Up to 5.0 CEUs (upon completion of all program requirements)
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A $300 stipend (upon completion of all program requirements)
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Travel reimbursement of up to $200 (depending upon your distance from the site visits)
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Substitute reimbursement (if your school cannot cover the cost of a substitute for Friday workshops, fellows may request a substitute scholarship)
Eligibility & Application
This program is open to all currently practicing K-12 educators and curriculum coordinators in North Carolina who will be teaching in the next consecutive school year. Applicants must be able to attend March and December workshops, as well as travel to at least 3 out of 4 offered sessions throughout NC. Sessions will fall on weekdays and weekends, and Fellows will complete pre-reading assignments before each session. Download the MEAC Fellows Application Form. Application Deadline: January 31, 2020, 11:59 p.m. EST
Please submit completed applications as a PDF to harver@email.unc.edu.
Food for All: Local and Global Perspectives
K-12 Workshop | April 24, 2020 | NC Botanical Garden, Chapel Hill, NC
Learn about food, food systems and how food is used to express culture and identity in our state and globally. Includes curriculum resources. For K-12 educators of all disciplines. Continuing Education Units offered. Register.
Global Conflict and Peacebuilding
K-12 Seminar | March 24-25, 2020 | The Friday Conference Center, Chapel Hill, NC
K-12 educators will gain relevant information and innovative approaches to teaching about global conflict and peacebuilding. Educators will be introduced to key themes, diverse resources and strategies for exploring these topics in the classroom. Continuing education units offered. View details and registration.
Apply for the James L. Peacock Scholarship by February 3, 2020, for free registration to this seminar.
Global Education Teacher Leader Institute
K-12 Leadership Program | June 15-17, 2020 | Chapel Hill, NC
Educators are invited to apply to the Teacher Leader Institute to further their own knowledge and understanding of global issues and to develop global competencies that support global education initiatives in their classroom. Application period will open in January. Continuing Education Units offered. View more details.
Resources
Nada Wafa, doctoral student at NC State University, is working with a team of researchers to build a new Global C3 Hub for educators. Check it out! The Hub is designed to be a collaborative workspace for educators around the world who are interested in developing globally-relevant, internationally-focused C3 Framework instructional materials. The collection currently includes a handful Middle East-related lessons like “How ‘magnificent’ was Suleiman?” and “Ancient Hebrews.” There are plans to add more. Feel free to complete a quick feedback form on Global Inquiry-Based Learning so they can tailor their Global C3 Teachers’ work.
HistoryView VR offers free virtual reality tours of many national and international historic sites. Whereas some websites offer only a few free tour options, all of HistoryView’s tours are free. Students can use their device to click through museums, national parks, government buildings, and other landmarks. Each VR tour is equipped with touchpoints the students can select to learn more about the location. For example, environmental science classes could visit the Amazon rain forest or the satellite for NASA’s Operation IceBridge. History classes studying ancient civilizations could visit the Roman Colosseum, and students in American literature courses can visit the Mark Twain house.
These tours are accessible with any VR headset, but the extra equipment is not required—students can view the tours using their tablet or laptop.
New Culture Kits from Carolina Navigators
New Culture Kits
New Videos
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UNC Navigator Isabella: Breakfast in Brazil
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UNC Navigator Jadah: Limon, Costa Rica
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UNC Navigator Timothy: Philippines' Water
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UNC Navigator Rhea: La Religion en España
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UNC Navigator Kierra: Argentina: Gauchos
Overheard at National Geographic Podcast
Each week, NatGeo dives into one of the curiously delightful conversations overheard around National Geographic's headquarters. You'll be introduced to the explorers, photographers, and scientists at the edges of our big, bizarre, and beautiful world.
Tour Creator is a product from Google that allows students to create their own versions of Google Expeditions—they can make VR tours to share with their peers. Tour Creator allows students to pull images from Google Maps’ Street View—they can search for an address or city and select the 360-degree images they would like to add to their tour. Each location selected is called a scene, and within each scene, students can add background music, notes for their classmates, or points of interest—touchpoints that draw the eye of the viewer to a specific part of the image where the student has provided more information, sound effects, or images to educate their peers.
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