Our Alliances

What School Could Be is a collaborative community platform for educators around the world. WSCB equips change agents with resources to mobilize their communities around a vision of school that prepares students for their futures. WSCB supports confidence-building teacher-led 'small steps' that transform learning experiences. This joyful change model draws on the expertise and insights of those in the field, and builds on schools' successes and bright spots. WSCB strives to help school communities build consensus on what their school could be, and to support their collaborative, joyful efforts to get there.

The Centre for Global Education develops and delivers virtual, collaborative learning projects that engage and empower youth as global citizens, through connecting them to the people, places, and issues they are learning about in their classrooms. Using online technology to facilitate project-based, transformative learning opportunities, CGE breaks down traditional classroom barriers, connecting students to the world and the world to students. Since 2008, hundreds of thousands of students, from more than 400 schools, in over 35 different countries have participated in over 350 difference sessions, making CGE the largest provider of real-time high school collaborative programming in Canada.

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With nine schools in Colombia and a growing network of schools across the world, the RedCol network strives to transform the world through quality education. Their focus on both academic and human-centered design has paved the way for quality and innovation in RedCol schools.

WholeSchools is an educational consulting group based in Mexico City created by a growing network of global educators specializing in both international and local accreditations, pedagogical frameworks and teaching practices that are at the vanguard of educational approaches such as the Finnish System, Reggio Emilia, the International Baccalaureate and Harvard Project Zero. The WholeSchools mission is to empower educational institutions by implementing best practices and international programs, that will help schools enhance their competitiveness and strengthen the well being of their educational community, in order to transform society. The WholeSchools team has years of experience working in International, American and local schools in Mexico, Latin America, the US and Europe.

iEARN is a non-profit organization made up of over 30,000 schools and youth organizations in more than 140 countries. iEARN empowers teachers and young people to work together online using the Internet and other new communications technologies. Over 2,000,000 students each day are engaged in collaborative project work worldwide. Since 1988, iEARN has pioneered on-line school linkages to enable students to engage in meaningful educational projects with peers in their countries and around the world.

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Founded in 1919, the Institute of International Education is a private not-for-profit leader in the international exchange of people and ideas. In collaboration with governments, foundations and other sponsors, IIE creates programs of study and training for students, educators and professionals from all sectors. These programs include the flagship Fulbright Program and Gilman Scholarships administered for the U.S. Department of State. IIE also conducts policy research, provides resources on international exchange opportunities and offers support to scholars in danger.

Fulbright Japan works to improve the global perspectives of Japanese educators by providing immersive experiences and opportunities to partner with educators in other parts of the world. With a particular focus on improving the relationship between the US and Japan through educator exchanges, Fulbright Japan strives to engage teachers in multilateral projects on environmental sustainability and other global challenges.

Sierra Leone Rising is a non-profit organization that fosters quality education, supports female empowerment, and ensures public health safety in rural Sierra Leone. Principled Learning Strategies is a partner for educational initiatives, including digital literacy (establishing computer labs, online training), providing teaching and learning materials (furniture, chalk, textbooks, scholarships), and helping to coordinate educational collaboration (pen pal exchanges, video conferencing and cultural studies). Collaborative educational partnerships have also engaged students in conversations and projects about female empowerment and public health.

World Leadership School, a Founding B Corp, partners with K-12 schools in order to reimagine learning and create next-generation leaders. Since 2007, WLS's diverse community has grown to 50+ staff, instructors, teacher coaches, and country coordinators around the world. World Leadership School now partners with over 100 independent and charter schools to bring greater purpose to learning. With these schools, WLS works to design and run partnership-based travel programs for over 750 students each year; create professional learning experiences for over 2,200 teachers and administrators each year through our workshops, Virtual Coaching Institute, conferences and educator travel programs; and improve risk management in order to scale off-campus experiential learning.

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The International Studies Schools Network (ISSN) is a professional community of a growing number of K–12 schools around the United States. ISSN schools fully integrate global education across the curriculum through a unique combination of professional development, globally-focused curriculum tools, project-based learning, and authentic assessment. ISSN schools enjoy higher levels of student engagement and academic achievement; especially those in primarily socio-economically disadvantaged urban areas.

In 2006, with the launch of TakingITGlobal for Educators (TIGed), TIG began to more directly support the work of global educators. TIGed allows educators to leverage the resources of TakingITGlobal, the world’s most popular online community for youth who want to make a difference in ways that meet the needs of their learning environment. TIGed is a community of globally-minded educators interested in empowering their students to think and act as world citizens through resources that facilitate the inclusion of global perspectives in the classroom, virtual classrooms that allow students to engage in tech-enabled collaborative learning, e-courses designed to deepen and improve teacher practice in authentic global education, and more.

PBLWorks, formerly known as the Buck Institute for Education, is dedicated to improving 21st Century teaching and learning throughout the world by creating and disseminating products, practices and knowledge for effective Project Based Learning (PBL). PBLWorks contributes to Project Based Learning through product development, services, research, and online learning. PBLWorks publishes books and articles to support K-14 teachers in designing and implementing PBL. This includes free materials such as project planning forms, student handouts, rubrics, and articles for educators to download and use. PBLWorks also partners on research projects to collect evidence about the effectiveness of PBL and advance knowledge about its use.