Thanks to the great initiative of the Multicultural Kid Bloggers network, which I’m delighted to be part of, we had a great 30-minute Google Hangout chat with Kim Vij, from the Educator’s Spin on It. The YouTube video of our chat is HERE. Here’s the Event page where comments can be found: https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/cap2e0chs44j70155m5qln7lcto And a…
On the heels of publication of two terrific books, How Eskimos Keep Their Babies Warm by Mei-Ling Hopgood and my friend Christine Gross-Loh’s Parenting Without Borders interest in parenting practices around the world has grown (sort of the flip side of Growing Up Global – not raising a global citizen, but knowing what others around…
(I wrote this post for National Geographic Education’s blog in the spring. Thanks to all the readers who made this one of their most widely read articles ever! Here’s the link to the original piece, or read it below. Thanks for stopping by!) An ongoing communication with an enthusiastic social studies teacher in a large…
(This post originally appeared on EdWeek.com’s Global Learning Blog here.) I met my co-author on Twitter. We hit it off in a series of 140-character communications, where we realized we shared similar values, a vision of bringing global education into classrooms, and that our expertise was complementary. We never met until our book was 90…
The need to learn about each other’s beliefs just keeps getting stronger. This seems particularly true as Islam makes the news on so many fronts. On the positive side: with Bosnians and Iranians playing in the World Cup, knowing the dominant faith traditions in these countries is essential understanding a bit of their culture, and…
Beyond our usual “what’s the best thing that happened to you today” conversation at dinnertime, we’ve added some social media sharing – talking about a video or story that’s gone viral that day. Our first time watching Pharrell’s “Happy” or Kid President’s Pep Talk came after a dinner conversation. It’s a great way to share…
