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Happy New Year! May 2018 bring purpose and productivity to our collective education work and may you find peace in your corner of the world.

This is our monthly blog post pointing to events and opportunities for global collaboration in education.

EVENTS

Here are GlobalEd Events and Global Education Conference Network events that are coming up in the next few months. Add these to your professional calendar and check out our ongoing GlobalEd Events calendar for more happenings.

• February 5 — Global Education Day at the TCEA Conference and Expo(Austin, Texas) Share this flyer: http://bit.ly/GEDATTCEA
• March 19–23 — Global Leadership Week (online) Share this flyer: http://bit.ly/GLSflyer
• March 23 — The Global Leadership Summit at ASCD’s Empower 18 Conference (Boston, Massachusetts)
• June 24 — Global Education Day at ISTE 2018 (Chicago, Illinois)
  

Additionally, GEC co-founder Lucy Gray will be at the MiTE Conference in Galway, Ireland, this January and ASB Unplugged in Mumbai, India in February. If you are attending either of these events, please say hello and introduce yourself!

Events from Other Organizations

• March 12 — CoSN/UNESCO Global Symposium on Educating for Digital Citizenship (Washington, DC)
• July 8–14 iEARN International Conference and Youth Summit(Winchester, Virginia)
  

COMMUNITY DISCUSSIONS

• Go Global with Qatar Foundation International! (sponsored)
• Global Gaming with Alludo (sponsored)
• World Savvy’s Global Competence Certificate Spring 2 Course Registration is Now Open
• Promoting SDG Awareness with Classroom Posters — Partners needed!
  
  

PROJECTS

• Scratch Global Storytelling Project
• World Read Aloud Day
• World Read Aloud Skypeathon
  

OPPORTUNITIES

• Funding inquiries on Internationalizing Teacher Prep and Innovations are due to the Longview Foundation by January 18, 2018.
• The Fund for Teachers grant application is due January 31, 2018.
• NEA Foundation’s Global Learning Fellowship program is accepting applications through February 5, 2018.
• Qatar Foundation International offers fellowships for teachers who will become certified in Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language. Applications are due March 11, 2018.
• IREX’s Teachers for Global Classrooms Program applications are due March 13, 2018.
  

WORTH A READ

• 24 Teacher Travel Opportunities For Free or Super Cheap: A Great List!(Teaching Traveling)
• A Digital Solution When Children Can’t Find Books in Their Mother Tongue (CS Monitor)
• Empathy is the Future Trend in Education (HundrED)
• How to Become a Teacher Who Travels the World for Free with Fellowships and Programs (Teaching and Traveling)
• How to Teach Kids Social Responsibility in a Connected World (Common Sense Education)
• Instagram in the Global Classroom (Global to Go)
• International Collaboration Projects Using Technology (EdWeek)
• Latinx Women Who Fought Fascism (Teen Vogue)
• Making Global Education Visible (Craig Perrier)
• Teachers Share 7 Strategies for Globalizing US Schools (HuffPo)
• Teaching with Google Earth (National Geographic)
• These Kids’ Books Are Written by Kids From Around the World (Fast Company)
• What’s the Difference Between Children’s Books in China and the U.S?(NPR)
• The World’s Largest Lesson: Global Goals Activities (Jackie Gerstein)
• Young and Online: Children’s Perspectives on Life in the Digital Age(UNICEF)
  

As always you can find our previous monthly posts here in Global Education Connections. If you have an item to share, post it in our community discussion forum and we’ll try to include it in our February post!