Grants Awarded

1. $4,600 American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE), Washington, DC
   To support development of a web site dedicated specifically to global education for use by teacher educators and their students. A manual will be produced to introduce the site to educators.
2. $1,500 American Association of School Administrators (AASA), Arlington, VA
   Discretionary grant for a featured speaker on international/global education issues at 1999 National Conference in New Orleans in February.
3. $5,000 American Forum for Global Education, New York, NY
   Two-part grant (1) $1,000 to support networking and leadership activities with national educational organizations and (2) $4,000 to develop and disseminate a set of lessons (a resource guide) to illustrate how to implement the Global/International Education Guidelines in classrooms. They will be available for a small fee in hard copy or free on American Forum's web site.
4. $5,000 Brown University, Choices Program, Providence, RI
   Grant to include a Senior Associate middle school teacher in planning and leading the Summer Institute for teachers and to include one new middle school teacher in the 1998 CHOICES Teaching Fellows Program. Also includes funds to allow teachers to offer regional programs. More
5. $500 Brown University, Choices Program, Providence, RI
   Discretionary grant to help with revising the curriculum unit on conflict resolution, Keeping the Peace in an Age of Conflict: Debating the U.S. Role. More
6. $1,500 Brown University, Choices Program, Providence, RI
   Discretionary grant provide honoraria for 3 teachers trained in Choices teaching strategy to adapt materials for variety of diverse students. More
7. $3,000 Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), Washington, DC
   Two-part-grant: (1) $1,000 to support meetings in Washington for leaders of national educational leadership groups; (2) $2,000 to include global/international focus in social studies assessment items for twenty states. Latter matched by $1,000 from grant to CCSSO from U.S. Dept. of Education Office of Educational Research. Will measure students' knowledge and skills about other cultures, global issues and global connection
8. $10,000 Institute for Educational Inquiry, Seattle, WA
   Second year of a 3-year commitment for school reform project to determine essential content and pedagogy required for teachers to develop democratic character in students. Grant will support continued meetings of the Working Group of educators involved in this project. Their work will focus on exploring previously defined topics (from Year 1), manuscript development, and preliminary preparation of panel presentations for 1999 national conference. This is part of John Goodlad's National Network for Educational Review.
9. $2,000 Massachusetts Global Education Project, Winchester, MA
   To fund second year of project involving grades 4-8 grade students and their families in world affairs project--$1,000 for local teacher coordinators' honoraria and $1,000 to research, monitor, and evaluate if behavior patterns changed plus seed money for an article describing the project for possible publication by national education organization.
10. $6,000 National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP), Alexandria, VA
    For dissemination of publications Getting Started in Global Education and to fund the 17th year of mini-grant program to member schools for worthy global education projects.
11. $8,000 National Catholic Education Association, Washington, DC
    To fund third year of mini-grant program for member elementary schools.
12. $3,000 National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS), Silver Spring, MD
    To be combined with 1997 grant funds to begin a mini-grant program for NCSS affiliate members to encourage global perspectives in curriculum.
13. $5,000 National Peace Corps Association, Washington, DC
    Second year grant in two parts: (1) $2,500 for five elementary/middle school teacher awards (disseminator grants) for exemplary global education curricula dealing with four possible themes: global interdependence, diversity, conflict management, and cross-cultural patterns; and (2) $2,500 for ten "adapter" grants to encourage teachers to revise curriculum materials for other grade levels. Knight Foundation will provide matching grant. (Teachers and Schools Grant) More
14. $3,000 National Peace Foundation, Washington, DC
    For planning to determine need for and feasibility of creating a K-12 curriculum in conflict resolution education that would build incrementally on concepts and skills effectively learned as students mature. A global perspective will be included at all grade levels.
15. $5,000 Ohio State University, College of Education, Columbus, OH
    To develop a model teacher education program in global perspectives involving elementary classroom teachers who are partnered with foreign nationals as "cultural consultants." Eight school districts will be involved in this school-university partnership. Elementary teachers will receive substantive content in global education as well as technology training for using the Internet and World Wide Web. Some teachers will be encouraged to write about this model program for publication in elementary school journals.
16. $2,500 St. Norbert's College, F. K. Bemis International Center, De Pere, WI
    To support the creation of global education state-wide association, Wisconsin Association for Global Education (WAGE). New organization would help to implement global education programs through cooperation with the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction and its twelve Cooperation Educational Service Agencies. (Cancelled due to personnel change.)
17. $3,000 World Affairs Council of Washington DC, Washington, DC
    To support the 7th Summer Institute offered to teachers nationwide. Topics for 1998 include Human Rights-What Role in U.S. Policy; Thurkey: Emerging Regional Power or State Crisis; China and the U.S.; Cuba and U.S. Strategy; and Religion's Role in World Affairs: U.S. Challenge.
18. $4,000 World Resources Institute, Washington, DC
    To support teacher training on use of Datascape, a computer software program that allows visual presentation of environmental statistical information. This interdisciplinary project will help students understand the connections between the global environment and local environment and the importance of achieving sustainable development to ensure quality-of-life for future generations.