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Welcome to the iEARN-USA News page, your source for the latest updates, achievements, and stories from our vibrant community of educators, students, and partners worldwide. Stay informed about our initiatives, upcoming events, and opportunities to get involved as we continue to connect and empower youth to create positive change in their communities and beyond.Â
Students are invited to make cards celebrating their special holidays. Each class will be grouped with around seven others around the world and will prepare cards to send to their partner classes.
As classrooms, school hallways and homes across the country are decorated and buzzing in the spirit of Halloween (October 31st, 2012), what better time to reflect on the origins of the day and engage your students in storytelling and research as part of a global project while their motivation and excitement is dizzying?
iEARN featured in new Common Core State Standards Edition of Susan M. Drake's, 'Creating Standards-Based Integrated Curriculum' book. Check out snapshots of iEARN projects, including the Solar Cooking Project.
On Oct 15, the US Institute of Peace will be hosting an Exchange 2.0 event featuring Her Majesty Queen Noor Al Hussein and Tara Sonenshine, Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy. Join the webcast!
On October 11, iEARN-USA is pleased to celebrate the inaugural Day of the Girl. Read about iEARN's efforts to empower girls worldwide on the iEARN-USA WorldPress Blog.
Last month, iEARN-USA Director Emeritus Ed Gragert explained in the Huffington Post why global education initiatives from the United Nations, the Global Campaign for Education, and the World Bank are key to breaking the cycle of poverty:
iEARN-USA is not only a proud membership organization serving K-12 teachers and students across the United States, we’re also proudly part of a unique global network for which each week is a celebration of innovative teaching and learning.
This year, November 12-17, will be the first time iEARN’s annual International Teacher Conference and Youth Summit will be free and online thanks to our partnership with the Global Education Conference.
Join us for a free webinar to learn more about the new and improved interactive online platform we call the iEARN Collaboration Centre!
Learning Circles are highly interactive, project-based partnerships among a small number of schools located throughout the world. Register now for the next session: September 30, 2012-January 15th, 2013.
Educators, youth, and other partners and innovators are invited to submit proposals with an emphasis on promoting global awareness, fostering global competency, and solving real–world problems.
Five NSLI-Y scholarship recipients arrive in Taiwan and begin their intensive Chinese language program. Students will live with host families and attend classes in Mandarin Chinese at a local college for the 2012-2013 academic year.
After researching about social entrepreneurship and a famous social entrepreneur as well as the problems, needs and wants of the people in their community, students will create a social enterprise.
If you haven’t already visited our brand new Collaboration Centre here’s a video (with a catchy song) to get you in the mood for the new school year!
This August the team at iEARN-USA has been pleased to:
Engage in Connected Educators Month;
Take action on Millennium Development Goals;
Host NSLI-Y Student Pre-Departure Orientations;
Welcome YES Program Students to the US;
This past May we introduced you to the Finding Solutions to Hunger project.
iEARN launches new Collaboration Centre, a custom-built platform designed to support iEARN’s global project-based learning network of 50,000 teachers and 2 million student participants in over 130 countries worldwide.
Thank you so much for the positive response to our August Side By Side campaign. We’ve already reached 58% of our goal, and our Crowdrise site is humming thanks to the education team at Intel, the Copen Family Fund, Cara, Marianna, Sandy, Miriam, Laurie, Janice, Tina, Erin, Leah, Ken, Glenn, Dara, Morgan & Patrick, Ken & Michele, two Minecraft players, and three rattlesnakes!
ice, with panelists Ed Gragert, Lucy Gray, Vicki Davis, Julie Lindsay, and Anne Mirtschin, Steve Hargadon was moderating.
Last month, for the first time in 24 years, the iEARN Global Assembly hosted its annual leadership meeting completely virtually. Representatives from 24 countries across many time zones joined the three-day meeting both live and asynchronously, through a wiki and Blackboard Collaborate.
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