School to School

Partnership Stories

Read about how Chatham Day School in New Jersey and Thabisile Primary School in Soweto, South Africa are sharing the excitement of learning. More…

A Visitor From Soweto

A South African teacher’s visit to Chatham Day School, a New Jersey middle school. More…

Student Community Service

Do you and your friends want to make a difference in the world? Then perhaps a community service project to benefit a school in one of the GLP sites would be of interest! More…

CERTIFICATE OF COMMENDATION

A Recognition of Global Citizenship

This commendation is given by the Global Literacy Project, Inc. to those who:

  1. Demonstrate awareness of the fact that we share the world with other people, and that events in one part of the world affect people in other parts
  1. Engage in active service learning projects to meet the needs of other people abroad, and to deepen their own ability to make a difference
  1. Reach out to persons outside their own culture with the aim of promoting inter-cultural understanding, and personal sense of membership in a broad global community
  1. Show a sense of tolerance and respect for diversity
  1. Develop empathy with, and an active concern for people in other countries, and reflect on questions of interdependence, social justice and equity.

School Partnerships Help To Create “Global Citizens”

For this initiative there does need to be a firm commitment to the program, particularly from the head/principal.

  • Partnerships last for three years, initially, and include the additional commitment to helping address the needs and priorities of the education systems of our partnering schools around the world.
  • The School-to-School program seeks to encourage cross curricular activities. Learning about a foreign language, developing an understanding and appreciation of other cultures, and working together with others from very different backgrounds are all now important educational goals that partnerships can help foster.
  • We encourage curriculum-based activities to draw awareness to global connections as well as helping to have a majority of students aware and involved.
  • We work to become embedded in the life of a school, thus creating maximum impact. It is our hope that this will create a sustainable partnership that lasts well into the future.

GLP’s School-To-School partnerships serve to create a dialogue between schools participating in our High Literacy Clusters from around the world and the USA.

Remember, partnerships last for three years, initially, and do have specific requirements! If your classroom/school is simply interested in gaining one or two semesters of exposure before making a further commitment, please consider our “Classroom Connections” initiative.

Which countries are participating?

Our pilot program is currently limited to AFRICA: South Africa and the state of New Jersey in the USA. We plan to soon have sites in Africa: Kenya; CARIBBEAN: St. Vincent and the Grenadines; INDIA: Tamil Nadu.