In Fall, 2022, a much-revised second edition of the book authored by Veronica Boix Mansilla and me, Educating for Global Competence: Preparing Our Youth to Engage the World, will be published by ASCD Press. When the original work was published nearly 10 years ago,...
Measuring What Matters: Updating Report Cards to Assess Global Competence The West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District is situated on land in New Jersey near Princeton University that was in 1938 the site of a massive invasion of Martians bent on destroying...
For Felix Ruano, getting out of his comfort zone is a key to success. He is a 2013 graduate of the Ambassador School of Global Leadership (ASGL) in Los Angeles, a high school opened as part of the International Studies School Network (ISSN) in 2008. According to...
Over 40 years ago, in the classic work School Power, Yale Professor James Comer introduced the idea that to be successful for all young people, a school’s culture had to comprise a web of supportive relationships between students and teachers and between students...
Vista Charter Public Schools, a group of schools serving K-12 students in Los Angeles and Santa Ana, California, have been members of the ISSN since 2018. Like schools across the country, Vista schools shut down during the height of the Covid pandemic. Despite an...
The greatest threats to our survival are from the oppression and violence stemming from racism and other forms of hostility based on skin color, ethnicity and culture, and from environmental degradation; climate change and the reduction of bio-diversity. The common...
