School to School
Global Connections School Linking Program
Did you ever wonder what other young people around the world think about Americans? What music they like? What it’s like being a teenager in their countries? What their opinions are on some of the issues you care about? What they are doing to address poverty and injustice?
You can find out by partnering with schools around the world through the Global Connections Program. Check out our step-by-step guide on how to start up a school link!
If you're ready to get moving, apply online or download, fill out and mail in our School Linking Application {.pdf, 15K}.
Some of our current projects include:
Barrington High School and Los Cedros School: Rhode Island and Nicaragua
This school link is conducted entirely in Spanish. Students in Nicaragua and Barrington have shared information about their culture and communities through video documentaries. The Barrington High School students have incorporated an element of sustainability into their project and linked it with their Service Learning Program. As part of their service hours, they work with younger students at Barrington Middle School to create the communication projects, ensuring that the program will continue on after they graduate. Read more about the Barrington/Nicaragua school-to-school link.
Blake Middle School and Peuken Bada School: Massachusetts and Indonesia
After the Tsunami in 2004, U.S. students from Blake Middle School sent cards and letters of encouragement to their Indonesian peers. Students from Indonesia responded by documenting on video the healing and rebuilding process through expressions of their culture such as dance and art. The “sister schools” continue to share cards and letters throughout the year. As part of this link, Blake has raised several thousand dollars to support reconstruction programs in their Indonesian friends’ community.
Peacemakers Project: New York and Pakistan
The project started as a way to break down stereotypes about U.S. and Muslim cultures after the events of 9/11. Students from the Beginning with Children Charter School in Brooklyn, New York, and a group of youth in Chakwal, Pakistan began a relationship that has continued over the years through arts and media project exchanges supported by facilitators on the ground in Pakistan and teachers and students in the United Sates.
The project has grown from an original 25 students connected on each side, to over 75 children connected pairs, and has incorporated student-led outreach projects to bring ideas of peace and tolerance into their wider communities and schools.
What's it like to be a teenager in your community? California and Georgia link with Sudan
Two groups of U.S. students have found friendship in an unlikely place. Beginning in the fall of 2007, students in the states of California and Georgia began communicating with students in Darfur, Sudan. Today, the Namuzigeea Boy’s School is linked with a co-ed middle school class in Atlanta, Georgia and Namuzigeea Girl’s School is communicating with a diverse group of high school students in Cupertino, California. Read more about the newfound friendships between students in the U.S. and Sudan.
Educators! Contact us for more information on classroom resources, interactive workshops and presentations, and support to bring global issues into your classroom in creative ways.
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Did you ever wonder what other young people around the world think about Americans? What music they like? What it’s like being a teenager in their countries? What their opinions are on some of the issues you care about? What they are doing to address poverty and injustice?
You can find out by partnering with schools around the world through the Global Connections Program. Check out our step-by-step guide on how to start up a school link!
If you're ready to get moving, apply online or download, fill out and mail in our School Linking Application {.pdf, 15K}.
Some of our current projects include:
Barrington High School and Los Cedros School: Rhode Island and Nicaragua
This school link is conducted entirely in Spanish. Students in Nicaragua and Barrington have shared information about their culture and communities through video documentaries. The Barrington High School students have incorporated an element of sustainability into their project and linked it with their Service Learning Program. As part of their service hours, they work with younger students at Barrington Middle School to create the communication projects, ensuring that the program will continue on after they graduate. Read more about the Barrington/Nicaragua school-to-school link.
Blake Middle School and Peuken Bada School: Massachusetts and Indonesia
After the Tsunami in 2004, U.S. students from Blake Middle School sent cards and letters of encouragement to their Indonesian peers. Students from Indonesia responded by documenting on video the healing and rebuilding process through expressions of their culture such as dance and art. The “sister schools” continue to share cards and letters throughout the year. As part of this link, Blake has raised several thousand dollars to support reconstruction programs in their Indonesian friends’ community.
Peacemakers Project: New York and Pakistan
The project started as a way to break down stereotypes about U.S. and Muslim cultures after the events of 9/11. Students from the Beginning with Children Charter School in Brooklyn, New York, and a group of youth in Chakwal, Pakistan began a relationship that has continued over the years through arts and media project exchanges supported by facilitators on the ground in Pakistan and teachers and students in the United Sates.
The project has grown from an original 25 students connected on each side, to over 75 children connected pairs, and has incorporated student-led outreach projects to bring ideas of peace and tolerance into their wider communities and schools.
What's it like to be a teenager in your community? California and Georgia link with Sudan
Two groups of U.S. students have found friendship in an unlikely place. Beginning in the fall of 2007, students in the states of California and Georgia began communicating with students in Darfur, Sudan. Today, the Namuzigeea Boy’s School is linked with a co-ed middle school class in Atlanta, Georgia and Namuzigeea Girl’s School is communicating with a diverse group of high school students in Cupertino, California. Read more about the newfound friendships between students in the U.S. and Sudan.
Educators! Contact us for more information on classroom resources, interactive workshops and presentations, and support to bring global issues into your classroom in creative ways.
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