Global Education Resource Guide

An NYC network of organizations and resources to support teachers working to globalize their classrooms that offers professional development and research opportunities.

Just around the corner from our school, the Rubin features an extensive collection of Buddhist and Hindu art from the Himalayas and surrounding areas, the Rubin offers free guided tours to public schools that can be tailored to fit the needs of the class. A visit to this museum brings concepts to life through the ways art, culture and religion come together in this collection.

The organization that produced one of the key resources listed under Global Education Assessment Tools. The Asia Society, located on Park Avenue, does extensive work, including creating various tools and how-to guides for developing global classrooms and competencies.

Located in lower Manhattan, this monument honors the memory of enslaved and free Africans buried there in the 18th century. A visit here is a powerful way to emphasize the enduring presence and contributions of Africans in NYC history. Students are often surprised to learn about the presence of Africans and the black communities of early New York history.

Located in a tenement building on the Lower East Side's Orchard Street, restored to look as it did in 1863, where 1000s of immigrants lived over time, this museum provides students with an interactive visit to the past. Students visit the apartment and meet actors portraying people who actually lived there. This rare opportunity allows students to learn about the lives and conditions of immigrants to New York City at the turn of the century, as well as to investigate the ways the past and present overlap.

The Center is a resource center a few blocks away from our school for LGBTQ people that also runs a youth program, various workshops and support groups. In addition, they organize an LGBT College Fair, providing LGBTQ students the opportunity to research colleges where they will find community and resources they may be looking for.

Promoting the idea that both the diversity and common threads in the stories of ordinary people are what make a culture, Storycorps continues the mission of the WPA to provide ways and create an archive of ordinary Americans telling their own stories. These recordings can serve as archival sources, or as a model for how students can engage in oral history projects to honor the voices of individuals and community members in creating history.

"The Audre Lorde Project is a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Two Spirit, Trans and Gender Non Conforming People of Color center for community organizing, focusing on the New York City area. Through mobilization, education and capacity-building, we work for community wellness and progressive social and economic justice. Committed to struggling across differences, we seek to responsibly reflect, represent and serve our various communities."

"Founded in 1995, The Brotherhood/Sister Sol (Bro/Sis) provides comprehensive, holistic and long-term support services to youth who range in age from eight to twenty-two. Bro/Sis offers wrap around evidence-based programming. The organization focuses on issues such as leadership development and educational achievement, sexual responsibility, sexism and misogyny, political education and social justice, Pan-African and Latino history, and global awareness. Bro/Sis provides four-six year rites of passage programming, thorough five day a week after school care, school and home counseling, summer camps, job training and employment, college preparation, community organizing training, and international study programs to Africa and Latin America."

Though not in our immediate area, El Museo del Barrio, "committed to presenting and preserving the art and culture of Puerto Ricans and all Latin Americans in the United States" offers wonderful exhibitions and educational programs making it a truly valuable resource.

"A neighborhood housing and preservation organization that has served the Lower East Side of Manhattan since 1977. We’re dedicated to tenants’ rights, homelessness prevention, economic development, and community revitalization."

"Asian Americans for Equality (AAFE) is a non-profit organization dedicated to enriching the lives of Asian Americans and all of those who are in need...AAFE is committed to preserving affordable housing throughout New York and to providing new opportunities for the city’s diverse immigrant communities."

A non-profit that uses technological advancements to re-open cases in order to exhonerate those who have been wrongly convicted and incarcerated for crimes they didn't commit. The organization provides video resources that can educate students about these cases, and help them see how "the danger of the single story" has influenced the legal system in the US.