Additional Resources
Published by ASCD, this book shows teachers how to prepare students today for "tomorrow's world". The authors identify the skills, values, and attitudes that students in grades K-12 need to be engaged and thrive in the 21st century.
Click on the image to download the free publication & on the title for a link to learn more about teaching for global competence.
Teaching for Global Competence in a Rapidly Changing World
A joint collaboration with the Asia Society Center for Global Education, this guide sets forth the official PISA global competence framework and offers practical strategies and examples for K–12th grade educators to integrate global competencies into existing instruction, assessment, and school culture.
It defines global competence as a combination of knowledge, cognitive skills, attitudes, and values across four dimensions:
1. investigating the world
2. recognizing perspectives
3. communicating across cultures
4. taking action for collective well-
being
A wide variety of resources for: * educators looking to increase their global competency
* tools, articles and lessons for teaching global understanding * publications on educational topics through "Thought Leadership".
Yoonil Auh, James. "Global citizenship is now a radical idea, but one we need". University World News, 2025.
A 2025 article published by University World News explaining why it has become more important than ever to challenge the current trends towards nationalistic world views in favor of global citizenship. Auh argues that for global education to survive, it must embrace a "flexible, locally grounded, ethically resilient" framework that connects global awareness directly to local community action.
Ritland, Zack. "From Morocco to the Classroom: Building Soft Skills Through Simulations". Council on Foreign Relations, 2026.
Reflecting on his teaching practice and experience in Morocco, Fulbright Teacher & Council on Foreign Affairs Education Ambassador, Zack shares the resources he used to build 21st-century skills into his social studies curriculum. Combining global education with structured role-play, he makes historical concepts feel relevant to modern events while nurturing empathy, critical thinking, and civic engagement by prioritizing communication and adaptability to prepare students to be successful in the workplace.
Housed at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Project Zero (PZ) is dedicated to understanding and enhancing learning. Its suite of Global Thinking Routines provides practical, low-prep strategies to encourage student discourse and perspective-taking. PZ focuses on making thinking visible, fostering global and intercultural competence, and teaches students to become reflective thinkers and engaged global citizens.
I highly recommend the variety of strategies to encourage student discourse and critical thinking.
Popular thinking routines:
"Circle of Viewpoints"
"See, Think, Wonder"
"I Used to Think...Now I Wonder"