Toolkit
Use this Mapping the Nation toolkit to raise awareness and support for global education!
Advocacy Resources
• First, understand your local community using the data. Here is a worksheet to help you. (Download the PDF)
• Raise public awareness around education and workforce issues. Here is a worksheet to help you create your story.
Educator Resources
• Overview and Objectives (Download the PDF)
• Activity 1: Introducing Maps (Download the PDF)
• Activity 2: Demographics in Our Community (Download the PDF)
• Activity 3: Who Do We Trade With and Why? (Download the PDF)
• Activity 4: Creating an Info Graphic (Download the PDF)
• Activity 5: Organizing a Trade Mission (optional) (Download the PDF)
• Glossary
Follow these steps to invest in students, the workforce, and the nation.
Individual Actions
• Thank a teacher. They prepare us for every job on earth.
• Share your findings via social media and the link to the map. Tag it #MapTheNation.
• Share the infographics you find most compelling.
• Write an Op-Ed or blog stating your position, and back it up with data.
• Raise public awareness around education and workforce issues. Here is a worksheet to help you create your story.
• If you’re a parent, advocate for language and global learning programs in your child’s school and district.
Team Actions
• Schools: use these tools to help develop student global competence:
free book | global competence framework
• Higher Ed: NAFSA: Association of International Educators has created advocacy tools to assist in articulating strategies for helping university and college students develop global competence.
• Education communities: start a language immersion program and pipeline (the link is for Chinese, but its advice can be used widely).
• Out-of-school time programs: Learn more about Asia Society's Global Learning Beyond School work.
• Districts: Use this rubric to create a district-wide plan.
• States: Leverage a wide variety of resources to make global learning an opportunity for every student:
organize a state intiative | global competence rubric | read how one state used the data
Get Involved
To learn more about how to make the case in your community or to get involved.
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