Four years of co-coordinating the TOMODACHI US-Japan Youth Exchange Program taught us that we needed to do more to support DC students’ interest in Japan.
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Opening the world to our city’s youth
Globalize DC focuses exclusively on increasing access for DC’s public school students to high quality global education, language learning, and study abroad opportunities. We have adopted five strategies to do this work.
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Connecting to a global city
Washington, DC is both our home town and a global capital. Globalize DC works to bridge the gap between the city’s unique wealth of global resources and our own local students, educators, and schools.
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Join the movement
We can’t do this work without you! Your financial contribution will help us build a strong organization that makes a real difference in the lives of our city’s young people. No gift can be too big or too small.
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Focus: Japan
Konnichiwa! This school year we’re all in on Japan. Read about our growing menu of Japan related programming for students and learn how you can get involved.
Opportunities For Students
Pulitzer Center: Fighting Words Poetry Contest
Submission Deadline: May 12, 2024
Current K-12 students anywhere in the world are invited to use news stories on global issues to inspire poems of personal import.
Virtual NSLI-Y
Program Dates: Sept-Nov 2024
App Deadline: June 10, 2024
Free online courses introducing critical languages (Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, Korean, Russian, Turkish) to US high school students.
Inspired by Edo National Student Art Competition
Submission Deadline: May 15, 2024
A national art contest for students in grades 1-12 who create art inspired by Japan's Edo period.
Opportunities for Educators/Schools
GU Summer Teacher Institute 2024: Teaching the History of Palestine and Israel in the K-12 Curriculum
Program Dates: July 29-August 2, 2024
A free (hybrid) 3-day workshop for teachers at Georgetown University on the deep historical context of the current Palestine-Israel conflict.
Teacher Workshop – “Resettlement: Japanese Americans after World War II”
Program Date: May 7, 2024, 7 pm
App Deadline: May 7, 2024
A free virtual workshop for K-12 educators co-sponsored by the National Veterans Network and the Smithsonian APA Center.
Teach English Abroad and Change Happens (TEACH) Fellowship in Taiwan
Program Dates: SY 2024-25
App Deadline: March-July 2024 (rolling)
A great opportunity for experienced American teachers to teach English in a K-12 school in Taiwan next school year.
DIRECTOR’S BLOG
Seizing the Moment
May 23, 2022The global pandemic has brought tremendous pain to all our lives, and caused severe disruption to our schools and school systems. But it has also created an opportunity for radical change and reimagining. Read our Director's new blog post about the significance of this moment and Globalize DC's new call to action to mobilize our partner community to build a more collaborative, intentional, and equitable approach to PK-12 global learning in DC.
Beyond The Wall
This moving one-hour documentary, about four DC teens in China, is the perfect way to create conversations about the life-transforming impact of study abroad and global education.