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IBO Chinese Language students in Albany, NY who participated in OWC's Student to Student Language Lab.
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"(T)he wide diffusion of culture, and the education of humanity for justice and liberty and peace are indispensable to the dignity of man and constitute a sacred duty which all the nations must fulfill in a spirit of mutual assistance and concern."
Preamble to the Constitution of UNESCO
More Notable Quotes about global education and the role of the arts and technology rotate in the bottom section of each OneWorld Classrooms' informational Web site page. | |
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We have recently posted seven new sections to our free online multimedia resource, Cultural Profiles of Historic and Modern China: Chengdu Today - Food; Chengdu Today - Transportation; Chengdu in the Tang - Poetry; Tibet Today - Human-Animal Relationships; Tibet Today - Clothing; Tibet Today - Religion: Symbols; and Historic Tibet - Cultural Landscape. We will be posting nine more sections focusing on Tibet and Chengdu in May and June, 2008. The new sections are made possible by a grant from the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation.
We have also posted a new English module on our Student to Student Language Lab, featuring 11th graders from the IBO Chinese class at Albany High School in Albany, NY. We will be posting new English, Spanish and Chinese modules in the coming weeks and months.
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Dear ,
This Global Education Funding Watch bulletin lists grants, contests and funding resources for K-12 teachers, students and schools. Some entries include a suggestion for how to connect the resource with a OneWorld Classrooms program.
Also, now you can view past OWC E-newsletters and bulletins on our new Newsletter Archive Page.
In our next bulletin, we will tell you about new Global Connections and Classroom Connections opportunities for 2008/2009.
Happy classroom trails!
The OneWorld Classrooms Team |
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Global Education Funding Opportunities for Your Classroom |
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Youth Prizes for Excellence in International Education
Deadline: June 12, 2008
Asia Society and The Goldman Sachs Foundation are now offering the 2008 Youth Prizes for Excellence in International Education. Up to five winners will be selected to receive up to $10,000 each.
The 2008 competition asks students to create an in-depth written essay or multimedia feature that examines a social or economic issue that has relevance to them in a global context. In the essay category, students must compare and contrast how the issue affects their community and a community abroad, as well as create recommendations for what lessons the two communities could learn from each other. In the multimedia category, students must explore how a global problem or challenge affects their life as an individual, as a member of their local community, and/or as a global citizen.
How to connect this resource with OneWorld Classrooms: Join our Classroom Connections program to collaborate with an overseas partner class or school.
The Foundation for Rural Education and Development's Technology Grants for Rural Schools program was created to help meet the growing need for innovative technology in the classroom. The grants help public schools in rural areas bring modern computers to every classroom, connect schools to the information superhighway and make sure that effective and engaging software and online resources are an integral part of the school curriculum. In 2007, the program awarded a total of $50,000 in technology grants to public schools.
How to connect this resource with OneWorld Classrooms: Once you are connected, use OWC's free Travel & Learn Online content to travel the world in your classrooms; and interact with partner classes in the world regions you are studying through OWC's Classroom Connections.
Deadline: Ongoing
The One Laptop Per Child project plans to resume its Give One Get One program, in which people buy one of the nonprofit's rugged computers and donate a second one to a child in a developing country. OLPC's mission is to empower the children of developing countries to learn by providing one connected laptop to every school-age child.
Samsung's Hope for Education Technology Program
Deadline: August 31, 2008
Hope for Education was created by Samsung to provide U.S. K-12 schools with the latest technology products to assist in the educational process. Each year the program challenges students, teachers, parents, or anyone who knows of a school in need to write an essay regarding the importance of technology in education and how it can benefit a school in their community.
In the past four years, through a partnership with Microsoft, the Hope for Education program has
provided more than $7 million in Samsung technology and software to K-12 schools in the United States. This year the program has added another partner, DIRECTV, which will provide cash grants and educational television programming packages to the winning schools.
Students, parents, teachers, administrators, and community members can enter the contest by going to the program's Web site and submitting a 100-word essay about their school, answering the question: "How has technology educated you on helping the environment, and how or why has it changed your behavior to be more environmentally friendly?" Essay entries may be written in either Spanish or English.
How to connect this resource with OneWorld Classrooms: Join our Classroom Connections program to collaborate with an overseas partner class or school in developing your response to the essay question.
Toshiba America Foundation's Science and Math Education Project
Deadline: August 1, 2008
The mission of the Toshiba America Foundation is to promote quality science and mathematics education in U.S. schools. Grants are made for programs and activities that improve teaching and learning in science and mathematics in grades K-12. The foundation focuses its grantmaking on inquiry-based projects designed by individual teachers and small teams of teachers for use in their own classrooms.
The foundation is currently accepting applications for projects for grades 7-12. (Toshiba America Foundation offers a separate program for grades K-6. See the foundation's Web site for further
information.)
How to connect this resource with OneWorld Classrooms: Join our Classroom Connections program to collaborate with an overseas partner class or school in your inquiry-based project.
Dollar General's Back-to-School Literacy Grants Program
Deadline: June 12, 2008
The Dollar General Back-to-School Grants program provides funding to assist elementary, middle, and high schools in meeting some of the financial challenges they face in implementing new programs or purchasing new equipment, materials, or software for their school library or literacy program.
Programs or projects may target new readers, below-grade-level readers, readers with learning disabilities, or general literacy. Submissions will be judged based on creativity, statement of need, and use of funds. Grants will range up to a maximum of $5,000 each.
The Lorax Earth-Saving Challenge
Deadline: May 31, 2008
Dr. Seuss Enterprises and Ashoka's Youth Venture, in partnership with Earth Island Institute, have announced the Lorax Challenge, an opportunity for people between the ages of 12 and 20 across the United States to turn their ideas for helping to save the planet into reality.
The challenge invites teams of young people to create action plans for their earth-saving ideas. Selected teams will receive funding of up to $1,000 each to turn their ideas into a reality. In addition, five grand-prize winners will receive a free trip to the University of Florida for a weekend of activities, learning, and fun. (Only high school students are eligible for the Grand Prize.)
How to connect this resource with OneWorld Classrooms: Join our Classroom Connections program to collaborate with an overseas partner class or school in developing your earth-saving plan.
American Immigration Law Foundation's K-12 Education Grants
Deadline: June 1, 2008 and November 28, 2008
The American Immigration Law Foundation will award grants for the 2008-09 school year of $100 to $500 each to fund a limited number of K-12 grade-level projects that provide education about immigrants and immigration. The foundation seeks to fund activities that are innovative and supportive of AILF's mission of promoting the benefits of immigrants to the United States.
This year's program will focus on proposals that relate to the following categories: innovative use of technology; underrepresented minorities; community outreach and partnerships with
community based organizations; and math and science.
How to connect this resource with OneWorld Classrooms: Join our Classroom Connections program to interact with partner classes or schools in the origin countries of immigrant groups in your community.
Deadline: May 9, 2008 **Please note: The deadline has passed for this year; however, this is a yearly program: review the information and plan ahead for next year!
Administered by the Institute of International Education, the Toyota International Teacher Program offers study abroad opportunities for U.S. teachers. Now in its third year, the Toyota International Teacher Program to the Galapagos Islands will travel with thirty secondary school educators in late November 2008 to the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific Ocean. Full-time teachers and teacher librarians in grades 6-12 from all fifty states and the District of Columbia are encouraged to apply for this fully funded international professional development opportunity.
While in the Galapagos, program participants will have the unique opportunity to work in groups with Galapague�o teachers on the design of interdisciplinary environmental lessons. These lessons will be shared with the wider education community.
How to connect this resource with OneWorld Classrooms: Travel online to the Galapagos Islands and meet students who live there through OneWorld Classrooms' free Travel & Learn Online content. Interact with and learn from partner classes in the Galapagos through OWC's Classroom Connections program.
Lowe's Charitable and Educational Foundation, International Paper and the International Paper Foundation, and National Geographic Explorer classroom magazine have announced an Outdoor Classroom Grant Program to fund outdoor learning environments for K-12 public schools around the United States.
Outdoor classrooms provide students with the hands-on opportunity to learn about natural resources through science education. Ranging from flower, vegetable, and butterfly gardens to small ponds, nature trails, or bird sanctuaries, outdoor classrooms can vary in complexity based on a school's available resources. More elaborate outdoor learning environments may include a laboratory for testing water and soil quality, a greenhouse, wetlands, an arboretum, or a shelter.
This school year, the Outdoor Classroom Grant Program will award grants up to $2,000 to at least one hundred schools. In some cases, grants for up to $20,000 may be awarded to schools or school districts with major outdoor classroom projects. The grants can be used to build a new outdoor classroom or to enhance a current outdoor classroom at the school.
How to connect this resource with OneWorld Classrooms: Work with overseas partner schools in various world regions through our Classroom Connections program to compare and contrast environmental issues and circumstances; and organize collaborative outdoor studies.
Lexus and Scholastic Environmental Challenge
Deadline: Varies
An education program and contest about the environment that empowers teens to create a better world. Grants and scholarships of up to $75,000 will be awarded to teams of five to ten middle or high school students and one teacher-advisor working to address an environmental issue.
How to connect this resource with OneWorld Classrooms: Work with overseas partner schools in various world regions through our Classroom Connections program to compare and contrast environmental issues and circumstances; and collaborate to generate solutions.
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