About School-To-School Partnerships

• Partnerships with schools in other countries can help us understand that we now have to peer beyond our own individual communities or even nations. We have to start thinking of ourselves as being citizens of the world.

  Partnership activities help to:

  • develop a better understanding of the world we live in
  • compare and contrast the values and attitudes we carry
  • work against prejudice and xenophobia
  • provide opportunities to act as global citizens
  • encourage understanding and friendship
• Partnerships also help raise levels of literacy; assists in learning to speak a foreign language; and demonstrates how to learn to work towards shared goals.

Ideas for Project Activities

• There may be a number of teachers from a range of subjects who have begun to integrate global issues and awareness into their lessons.
• One class might be pen pals with students in the partner country.
• There may be visits abroad and global exchanges by some students and/or teachers.
• It's especially wonderful when teachers are able to meet their counterparts from overseas and work together on issues on mutual interest.
• The bottom line is that participating schools in school partnerships can choose their own priority curriculum areas.

School Partnerships Help To Create "Global Citizens"

• Our program seeks to encourage cross curricular activities. Learning about a foreign language, develping 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.

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...