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Global Village School is a progressive, K-12 distance learning program featuring a social justice and peace-focused curriculum with individualized teacher services. Educating for a better world for 26 years: globalvillageschool.org

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Global Village School @globalvillageschool.org · Mar 31

🌍We're Global Village School -- a women-owned, LGBTQIA+-owned, accredited private school and non-profit organization serving amazing families around the globe.🌈

Hi there! 👋😃

Color photo: Two fists side by side over a black bacground with the letters L-G-B-T-G-I-A-+ written on the fingers.

Words beneath the hands read: Personalized, Holistic, Inspiring Education.

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Global Village School @globalvillageschool.org · 1d

"Yet until now they have received less than 1% of all international aid for Sudan. After American aid was frozen in February that paltry amount shrank by even more."

A potent reminder that the power of the people is greater than the people in power.
📸: ProtoplasmaKid

#collectiveaction
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Color photo: hand painted mural, multicolored words against a white background. Text reads: The power of the people is stronger than the people in power.

📸: DeloarAkram

Global Village School @globalvillageschool.org · 1d

Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, these nimble and efficient groups of volunteers, mostly women, are THE bulwark against famine in Darfur. "They are cost-efficient, with 95% of donations going directly to volunteers on the ground."
📸: ProtoplasmaKid

#community #solidarity
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Global Village School @globalvillageschool.org · 1d

"They feed the hungry, restore electricity, fix water wells, evacuate civilians and do 'everything else in between.'"

𝗦𝘂𝗱𝗮𝗻’𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗺𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹-𝗮𝗶𝗱 𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗽𝘀
https://bit.ly/4hfSVHG
📸: Mazin Alrasheed/Reuters

"In many ways, they are the state now."

#sjw
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Group of women wrapped in colorful fabrics gathered around a large outdoor cookpot. They are using long wooden paddles to stir asida, a staple carb-rich food made from flour and boiling water. A pair of watchful children linger nearby.

Source caption reads: "Volunteers from a community kitchen prepare meals for people affected by conflict and extreme hunger, in Omdurman, on 22 June, 2024."

📸: Mazin Alrasheed/Reuters

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Global Village School @globalvillageschool.org · 2d

At the outset, Stamberg and another of NPR's "founding mothers," Linda Wertheimer, insisted they deserved to have an office. They shared a room with photocopiers.

📸: NPR
#andyetshepersisted
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Black-and-white photo: the staff of NPR in 1981. Lots of smiling faces wearing the office clothes of yesteryear gathered around a conference table.

📸: NPR

Global Village School @globalvillageschool.org · 2d

She originally was assigned to cut audio tape — it was literally tape back then — with a single-sided razor blade.

Women didn't yet have a clear place in broadcast journalism, finding themselves sidelined and dismissed at major television networks and even in radio.

📸: NPR
#womenofhistory
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Black-and-white photo: a smiling woman and a smiling man leaning casually on a desk holding rows of tape in a radio broadcast studio.

📸: NPR

Global Village School @globalvillageschool.org · 2d

"[T]he first U.S. woman to anchor a nightly national news program" and "the first real human being to host a regular evening newscast."

𝗦𝘂𝘀𝗮𝗻 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗴, 𝗡𝗣𝗥'𝘀 '𝗳𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿'
https://bit.ly/4qgXmq0
📸: Jay Kernis/NPR

#trailblazers
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Black and white photo: a smiling woman with short dark hair wearing a jacket with epaulets is seated in front of a potted plant. Her head is turned 3/4s and she looks out of frame (to the viewer's right).

📸: Jay Kernis/NPR

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Global Village School @globalvillageschool.org · 3d

🙏Thank goodness someone's keeping track

ProPublica @propublica.org · 3d

NEW: The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did.

We found more than 170 such incidents since the start of the second Trump administration. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer.

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

www.propublica.org

Global Village School @globalvillageschool.org · 3d

😔Leonard Peltier was incarcerated for nearly 50 years

PBS News Classroom @pbsnewsclassroom.bsky.social · 3d

PBS @pbsnews.org Classroom Lesson: Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier on adjusting to life at home after decades in prison

Ask students: Why do you think Leonard Peltier's case has drawn so much attention over the years?

#sschat #EduSky https://loom.ly/d3F9tKo

Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier on adjusting to life at home after decades in prison

Learn about an indigenous leader who was pardoned by President Biden at the end of his term

www.pbs.org

Global Village School @globalvillageschool.org · 3d

Every school year we ask our students to share their highs and lows from year that was to help us better understand both our families and ourselves.

Perhaps their answers will resonate with you or harmonize with your family's learning journey!

globalvillageschool.org

#k8 #highschool
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WASC Accredited Homeschool-Private School Program | GVS | GLOBAL VILLAGE SCHOOL

GVS is a transformational homeschool-private school hybrid preparing today's students to become tomorrow's global citizens.

globalvillageschool.org

Global Village School @globalvillageschool.org · 3d

Why choose GVS? Let's see what the kids are saying!

𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗘𝗻𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁? 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲!
bit.ly/gvs-enrollmen...

#secular #progressive #homeschool #distancelearning #diplomaprogram
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Color photo: the Parthenon in Athens under a blue sky with white clouds. Text (in a white typewriter-like serif) reads: “Studying Ancient Greek myths and culture then going to Greece and seeing historical places.”
-Finley, 4th Grade

📸: tilialucida

Color photo: a person whose arms are the only part we can see is seated at a desk, drawing a pumpkin using a tablet and digital pen, surrounded by open books. Text (in a white typewriter-like serif) reads: "Being able to learn at my own pace. I was also happy that I was encouraged to focus on my passions." - Ethan, 10th grade

📸: Ivan Samkov

Global Village School @globalvillageschool.org · 3d

👋Calling all HS English teachers: share your stories about censorship in the classroom w/ English Journal!

It's a tough time for teachers in America; add your voice to the chorus and help out Dr. Ann and the NCTE.

DrAnnD @drannd.bsky.social · 3d

Just a reminder that I co-edit a column on censorship for the English Journal and we'd love to have your submission written for HS English teachers and teacher-leaders. Share your stories, your ideas, your advocacy, your challenges, all of it. And we can publish anonymously. #edusky

Columns and Editors

English Journal Columns and Editors

ncte.org

Global Village School @globalvillageschool.org · 5d

"The miniature MRI machine table moves back and forth, mimicking a real procedure. [...] Lego doesn’t sell the sets and instead has donated more than 10,000 of the kits to hospitals around the world."

#betterthanyoufoundit
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Color photo: an excited (if slightly sheepish) little girl holds the end of a doctor's stethoscope in front of her mouth with two hands, like one might hold a microphone, while he listens through the earpieces. The doctor, a man with a trim beard and thick plastic eyeglasses, similarly holds the end of the little girl's stethoscope in front of his mouth.

📸: NanoStockk - Getty Images Pro

Global Village School @globalvillageschool.org · 5d

"Lego’s MRI scanner sets, which feature a scanner, patient bed, waiting room, staff figures and medical instruments, were designed specifically to help children learn about the procedure through hands-on play."

#justbecool
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An array of disembodied lego heads with various facial expressions (from confident, to cool, quizzical, to terrified, etc) arranged in five rows of five.

📸: Ralf1403

Global Village School @globalvillageschool.org · 5d

🌊Timeline cleanse!

𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗟𝗲𝗴𝗼 𝗠𝗥𝗜 𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝘅𝗶𝗲𝘁𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗻 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁
https://bit.ly/4omKKfb
📸: Lego

💪Proving yet again that being decent is a winning business model.
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Color photo: Promotional image of the Lego MRI playset. A patient lies on a table just outside the big MRI ring while a person in a lab coat stands by. In an adjoining room, a technician stands before a work station with two monitors.

📸: Lego

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Global Village School @globalvillageschool.org · 6d

Bruh...

𝗘𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗗𝗲𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝗽𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝘀𝗵𝘂𝘁𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗹𝗮𝘆𝗼𝗳𝗳𝘀, 𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘀𝗮𝘆𝘀
https://bit.ly/4h5Wu3b
📸: Carol M. Highsmith

#specialeducation #learningdifferences #neurodiversity

Aerial photo in color: The Lyndon Banes Johnson building, a large grey brutalist rectangle in Washington DC, home of the U.S. Department of Education.

📸: Carol M. Highsmith

Global Village School @globalvillageschool.org · 6d

Seeing history with clear eyes is the first step toward justice.

𝗨𝗻𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝘂𝗺𝗯𝘂𝘀 𝗗𝗮𝘆 𝗠𝘆𝘁𝗵𝘀
National Museum of the American Indian
https://bit.ly/48y7jZT
📸: by GVS using Canva

#sjw #hardhistory #hiddenhistory

Global Village School @globalvillageschool.org · 9d

🤔What can the past teach us about moral panics?

𝗦𝘂𝗯𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀: 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝗱 𝗦𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗲
https://bit.ly/4n0AHeC

𝗔 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗳 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗺 𝗪𝗶𝘁𝗰𝗵 𝗧𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹𝘀
https://bit.ly/4mS0XYx
📸: Zeitung Derenburg

#learnfromhistory

Color illustraton: Medieval woodcut-style illustration of three women being burned at the stake, surrounded by flames. Two men tend the fire. Onlookers stand in the background, observing solemnly.

📸: Zeitung Derenburg

Reposted by Global Village School

The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 9d

I still don't have a bookshelf with a rolling ladder, so no, I'm afraid your email did not "find me well."

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Global Village School @globalvillageschool.org · 10d

If you and your family are ready for an accredited K-12 program that adapts to unique learning styles and lifestyles, check us out!

𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗘𝗻𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁? 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲!
👉https://bit.ly/4ewX5th

#childled #studentdirected #progressive #homeschool
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GVS Homeschool Enrollment | GLOBAL VILLAGE SCHOOL

Global Village School is a leader in the secular, progressive K8 homeschool and High School homeschooling fields.

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Global Village School @globalvillageschool.org · 10d

Every year, we ask our students to share their highlights, and freedom is an evergreen answer!

🙌Every kid deserves to be empowered to make their own choices!

#secular #accredited #distancelearning #diplomaprogram
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Color photo: The silhouettes of six young people, some holding surfboards, standing on a beach at sunset. Text at the bottom (in a white, typewriter-like serif atop a semi opaque bar) reads, "We can wake up early and do some school, then go surfing and do more school later, or even do school on the beach." -Lukas, 6th grade

📸: Lunamarina

Color photo: a young girl, viewed from above, sits cross-legged on open books tiling the floor, reading a book of her own. A mug of coffee or tea is on the floor beside her. Text at the bottom (in a white, typewriter-like serif atop a semi opaque bar) reads, "Being able to read all the time. I found so many books about all parts of the world. It was great." -Sofia, 7th grade

📸: olharomaniuk

Global Village School @globalvillageschool.org · 11d

The linked article comes from the Times' Learning Network series, "a weekly collection of lesson plans, writing prompts and activities that helps educators and students teach and learn."

More here:
www.nytimes.com/sect...

#dontknowmuchabout #historynerds
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Black and White sketch of an old school paper boy, a la the Newsies, hawking papers (he's shouting and holding a front page aloft at full sprint). The background behind him is faded newsprint.

📸: by GVS using Canva

Global Village School @globalvillageschool.org · 11d

📢NYT is seeking student opinions: does history class thrill you or bore you? How could it be better taught?

𝗗𝗼 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗟𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆?
https://bit.ly/48kWHxl
📸: Tupper Scrapbook Collection - Boston Public Library

#homeschoolresources
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Black & white photograph: old timey photo showing a group of men and women (three of the women sit atop camels) in Victorian attire posing with their Bedouin guides in front of Egypt's Great Sphinx. A large pyramid looms behind them.

Source caption reads: "Our party, December 1892, February 1893."

📸: Tupper Scrapbook Collection - Boston Public Library

Global Village School @globalvillageschool.org · 12d

Frontline's follow up to "Poor Kids", filmed more than a decade ago, revisits the now-adult subjects and premieres tonight!

𝗕𝗼𝗿𝗻 𝗣𝗼𝗼𝗿 | 𝗣𝗕𝗦
https://bit.ly/4obFR8F
📸: Jezza Neumann

#classconsciousness #socioeconomics

Color screenshot: A 3x3 grid of photographs. Each column shows the same individual at various points in their development, with the oldest photos (showing them as children) at the top and the newest photos (showing them as young adults) at the bottom.

📸: Jezza Neumann

Global Village School @globalvillageschool.org · 12d

"China and India were largely responsible for the surge in renewables, according to the Ember report, in contrast with the US and Europe, which relied more heavily on fossil fuels."

📸: Aquintero82, Wikimedia Commons

#letthesunshine #climatechange
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Color image: greyscale projection map of the earth with China highlighted in green and India highlighted in orange.

📸: Aquintero82, Wikimedia Commons

Global Village School @globalvillageschool.org · 12d

🔓New achievement unlocked!

𝗚𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗲𝘄𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗴𝘆 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗽𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗮𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲
https://bit.ly/3KZbNP9
📸: Jenson for Getty Images

"[C]lean power is keeping pace with demand growth.”

#greenenergy #fossilfuels
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Color photo: rolling hills covered in solar panels stretch to the horizon where the sky is bathed in the golden glow of the rising sun.

📸: Jenson for Getty Images