Affiliates and partners
The following associations and organizations are aligned with EF in mission and
practice.
- American Federation of Teachers:
AFT is an organization that represents teachers and school-related personnel; local,
state and federal employees; higher education faculty and staff; and nurses and
other healthcare professionals.
-
College Board AP: The College Board is a not-for-profit membership association
whose mission is to connect students to resources and opportunities that nurture
college success.
- Girl Scouts: Girl Scouts
of the USA is the world’s preeminent organization created just for girls. In an
accepting and nurturing environment, Girl Scouts can build character and skills
for success in the real world.
- The Commission on International
and Trans-Regional Accreditation (CITA): The Commission on International and
Trans-Regional Accreditation (CITA) is dedicated to advancing the quality of education
through accreditation. EF programs are all accredited through CITA.
- Model UN: The United
Nations Association of the United States of America are dedicated to educating,
inspiring and mobilizing Americans to support the principles and vital work of the
United Nations. EF has tours designed specifically to meet the needs of Model UN
programs.
- Visiting International Faculty
Program: The Visiting International Faculty Program, the United States’ largest
cultural exchange program for teachers and schools, is dedicated to transforming
lives through international exchange.
- Primary Source:
Primary Source promotes education in history and the humanities by connecting educators
to people and cultures throughout the world.
- Partnership for 21st
Century Skills: Serves as a catalyst to position 21st century skills at the
center of U.S. K-12 education by building collaborative partnerships among education,
business, community and government leaders. EF is a board member promoting global
awareness for P21.
- PBS Teachers: Provides
multimedia resources and professional development designed for America's preK-12
educators.
- Channel
One: Channel One’s mission is to spark debate and discussion among teens, and
between young people and their parents and educators, on the important issues affecting
young people in America.
- Eastern Washington University:
EWU offers an undergraduate credit course that can complement any of our EF tours.
- International Student Exchange Committee (CSIET): The Indiana
Department of Education collaborates with the U.S. Department of State and the Council
on Standards for International Educational Travel, as well as with international,
national and local officials and partners, who support international exchange.
- International Baccalaureate (IB):
The International Baccalaureate (IB) offers high quality international education
programs to a worldwide community of schools.
- Apple Education:
Apple makes it easy to create digital content that connects and inspires students
in and out of the classroom.
- American Association of School
Administrators (AASA): The mission of the American Association of School Administrators
is to support and develop effective school system leaders who are dedicated to the
highest quality public education for all children.
- Asia Society
| International Studies Schools Network: Asia Society’s Education Programs promote
teaching and learning about world regions, cultures and languages in K-12 schools.
- Center
for International Understanding: The Center is committed to helping North Carolinians
live and work effectively with people of all cultures.
- The China
Exchange Initiative (CEI): The purpose of the China Exchange Initiative is to
build and support educational exchange programs, as well as administrator-shadowing
projects, between schools in the United States and schools in China at the pre-college
level.
- International Studies Schools
Association at the University of Denver: The International Studies Schools Association
(ISSA) is a national network of K-12 schools dedicated to improving students’ understanding
of the world.
- Lonely Planet: Lonely
Planet is renowned for its first-hand approach, up-to-date maps and commitment to
providing the best information for travelers.
- NAFSA: Association of International
Educators: Association of International Educators is a member organization promoting
international education and providing professional development opportunities to
those in the field.
- Kappa Delta Pi, International Honor
Society in Education: Kappa Delta Pi is a membership association whose mission
is to sustain an honored community of diverse educators throughout the world by
promoting excellence and advancing scholarship, leadership and service.
- Association of Supervision and
Curriculum Development: ASCD is a membership organization that develops programs,
products, and services essential to the way educators learn, teach and lead.
Ambassador Learning Communities
The school districts and community groups below encourage educational travel as
a way to provide the students with 21st Century Learning.
Resources for 21st Century Learning
Check out some useful, free online resources to enhance your tour experience and
facilitate authentic global engagement in your classroom.
- CulturallyTeaching.com: Creative A blog that documents stories about education across cultures and helps educators become more cross-culturally effective.
- National Geographic's
My Wonderful World: Creative Visions has helped to develop educational curricula
for Mexico, the Philippines and South Africa to accompany the GlobalTribe series.
- Asia Society - AskAsia:
AskAsia is a site of resources devoted to teachers and students that features lesson
plans, current events and media about Asia for educators and students.
- Rock Our World: Rock
Our World is a media collaboration where students from all seven continents come
together to compose music, make movies and hold video conferences to learn more
about one another.
-
PBS Global Tribe: GlobalTribe is a new PBS series that combines the spirit of
travel with a meaningful exploration of the global issues that affect us all.
- PBS and Peace Corps Global Café: This collaboration site between
Peace Corps and PBS provides resources, lesson plans, letters and photographs from
students around the world, and a forum for students across the globe to engage in
discussion.
- Peace Corps World Wise
Schools: World Wise Schools provides classroom resources and lesson plans based
upon the overseas experiences of Peace Corps Volunteers around the world.
- EF and Apple
Rethink. Global Awareness.: With EF, the Apple Learning Interchange hosts a
collection of lesson ideas, activities, galleries and conversations about Global
Awareness.
- Heifer International:
Heifer's education programs give teachers the resources to help students develop
a passion for helping others by passing on the gift of knowledge about solutions
to hunger and poverty.
-
GlobalEd: Shows thousands of teachers ways to design their own curricula and
ways to effectively employ different teaching strategies in the classroom.
- iEarn: iEarn is nonprofit
global network made up of teachers and students from across the globe that engage
in discussions with one another and work together on projects that fit their curriculum.
- Global Education Collaborative:
GEC is a site that links educators and students to global projects happening across
the world.
- International Studies
in Schools: An innovative distance learning program that uses interactive video
technology to connect schools and community groups with over 5,000 international
students, scholars and specialists at the Indiana University campus.
- ePALS Classroom Exchange:
Connecting students around the world with school-safe email, ePALS is the largest
global education community of collaborative classrooms engaged in cross-cultural
exchanges and project sharing.
- Exploring Humanitarian Law:
EHL is dedicated to helping teachers introduce the basic principles of international
humanitarian law to students in secondary schools.
- TakingITGlobal:
TIGed is a toolset for teachers looking for an innovative way to introduce everything
from low-tech solutions to online global collaborations with other classes thousands
of miles away.
- United Nations Cyberschoolbus:
The UN Cyberschoolbus provides lesson plans and project ideas on global issues that
classrooms from around the world can work on cooperatively to learn about international
issues and develop social responsiblity.
- Facing History
and Ourselves: Facing History and Ourselves supports various education initiatives
including humanities curriculum support and professional development opportunities.
- Roots & Shoots:
Roots & Shoots helps groups plan community inspired service-learning projects
that promote care and concern for animals, the environment and the human community.
- Global Issues That Affect
Everyone: This site looks into issues that affect everyone equally and aims
to show how most issues are interrelated.
- Global Schoolhouse:
GSH is the original virtual meeting place where educators, students and parents
can collaborate, interact, develop, publish and discover learning resources.
- One World Youth
Project: This project links North American groups with others from around the
world for the purpose of community service actions toward the achievement of the
United Nations Millennium Development Goals.
-
Worldmapper: Find hundreds of maps depicting data related to the world's population
on this site.
- UNICEF - Voices of Youth:
This site is for youths interested in human rights and development, and connects
them with each other around the world.
- Primary Source:
Primary Source offers a rich variety of professional development programs for K-12
educators. With the aim of connecting teachers together, they provide learning opportunities
about cultures around the world.