Curriculum 21 - Mapping the Global Classroom of the Future

Here's an interesting animation by Jack van Wijk of the Eindhoven University of Technology that depicts various strategies for projecting the globe on a two dimensional surface. Some of these projections are well known while others are a bit more experimental.

Wonderful ASCD video of Heidi Hayes Jacobs relating one of the Critical Transformations in her own life.

Peter Yarrow's program to assure each child and youth a respectful, safe and compassionate climate of learning where their academic, social and emotional development can take place free of bullying, ridicule and violence.

One of the new, SMART internet web filters which allows individual teacher control of individual webpages. EVERY school should have this kind of filter. NO MORE BLOCKING THE ENTIRE INTERNET.

Writing Fix - For Teachers, Students & Writers interactive prompts, lessons, and resources for writing classrooms

It's all connected! Climate change. Population growth. Poverty. Environmental degradation. Conflict. Global health crises. Intractable global problems? We don't think so. At Facing the Future we believe in the transformative power of widespread, systemic education to improve lives and communities, both locally and globally.Criotical thinking.

Creating and using curriculum maps is a lot faster and easier when you use this in-depth resource in workshops, curriculum teams, and professional learning communities. Whether you're introducing curriculum mapping for the first time or working with teachers and administrators who are well into the process, the manual's collection of templates, samples, and tools helps you

Student-safe, protected e-mail and social networking for connecting classrooms in over 200 countries around the world... Find specific classrooms to match up with, join projects, explore languages and cultures at all age levels.

Carnegie Mellon offers free "high gatekeeper" courses, defined as classes that have poor success rates but are important to getting degrees. The goal is to create courses that adapt to different learning styles and raise student success and completion ratios. Courses are designed for community colleges but could be appropriate for secondary students as well.

In the spirit of Thomas Jefferson, legislative information from the Library of Congress

The Official Web Portal for all branches, agencies, and departments of the U. S. Government

Excellent teacher created wiki space for Web 2.0 resources

Education World's virtual workshop on curriculum mapping.

This is the site for the recently-released film called "The Cartel" that is a startling portrayal of inner-city education in New Jersey. It makes, in vivid and emotional fashion, much the same case that many are making about New Jersey's urban schools. You can view the trailer, as well as some other clips, at

Geography for kids from National Geographic

Want to publish a school newspaper, reported and edited by students, published online for the benefit of the entire community? The BulletLink service offers one of the most comprehensive online newspaper publishing services, with custom templates that will give your newspaper a professional look.

Google Earth Outreach Showcase provides links to Google Earth applications in science, humanaties, history, geography, and more.

Teaching and Learning with the New York Times

"one of the best sources for media literacy." School Library Media Activities Monthly, November 2006 "takes its commitment to standards-based education seriously" ISTE review: "101 Best Websites for Secondary Teachers" 2005

Our Mission Big Picture Learning's mission is to lead vital changes in education, both in the United States and internationally, by generating and sustaining innovative, personalized schools that work in tandem with the real world of the greater community. We believe that in order to sustain successful schools where authentic and relevant learning takes place, we must continually innovate techniques and test learning tools to make our schools better and more rigorous.

The future of education is agility, mobility, and an expansive world view. THINK Global School will lead the way, starting in September, 2010. Our vision is to develop outstanding globally-committed citizens who make a profound contribution to global unity, social justice, and ecological sustainability.

... an innovative and interesting way to search for images on the web.

GapMinder is an exceptional site helping students compare data about demographics and statistical fact around issues pertaining to growth, agriculture, industry, poverty. There are films and support material as well.

Students who need to research the Congressional Record will find this tool useful. tinyThom.as, in a nutshell, is an online tool for preserving the web pages served up by http://thomas.loc.gov for documents related to the U.S. Congress. tinyThom.as generates full-size permanent URLs for THOMAS pages, and also generates short URLs which redirect to those long URLs in order to make them easy to pass around via Twitter, Email, Facebook, etc. This tool will help students cite documents, laws, and other materials maintained by the Congressional Record, and allows students to work easily with original source materials.

The Asia Society asks teachers to be a part of a ground-breaking effort to assess student global competency. They are collecting samples of work that demonstrate student global knowledge and skills at various developmental levels. Once the work is published, it will help teachers strengthen instruction and better evaluate student work and provide examples for students to help them strive for greater achievement. This website provides a rubric for global competency and instructions for how to get involved.