Global Ready Classrooms, Studies & Communities

Overview

The Longview Foundation builds purposeful partnerships between state government, NGOs, colleges of education, and communities to integrate global competence into teacher and student experiences to prepare them for tomorrow.

“The Longview Foundation is the only foundation in America which channels all its funds into the special field of developing international understanding at the pre-college level. In my view, this is the area with the greatest need—and the least support.”—William Breese, 1986

One of our very first grants in 1966 was a $1,000 award to the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education to create a pilot project to be rolled out in 10 sites across the country. It was followed by a $500 grant to the National Council of the Social Studies for a pilot to be rolled out in a New York school district.

Today, we continue the tradition of supporting teachers and working with myriad policy and non-governmental partners to deliver high-quality international educational experiences to students.

Global Ready Classrooms, Studies & Communities (formerly, Innovations in International Education)

We seek to weave global competence into the fabric of school and teacher experiences to engage and inspire the people living in them to want to connect more meaningfully to the world.

What work do we support?

• Resource and System Development: those systems seeking to embed global competence into the classroom level through resource development, virtual exchange, and long-term investments in a public education system that support global knowledge and skills. This grant category focuses on implementing global ready knowledge and skills for students and professional development for educators both during regular school hours and in out-of-school time settings.
• Development of Youth Voice and Civic agency: in tackling issues of global significance such as climate action and making global-local connections.

Who qualifies?

• State and District Education Agencies and Coalitions
• Nonprofits serving large numbers of schools/students across a state/district or across the United States
• Pedagogy, content, curriculum, resources – tools, not PD - PD should apply under Internationalization of Teacher Preparation

The grant application process has three steps:
1. Eligibility Quiz (open to all) 2. Letter of Inquiry (open to anyone who is approved by the quiz) 3. Full Proposal (invited only)

We will still have two cycles a year, January and June. We will invite proposals in February and July. Invited proposals will be due in March and August.

Most grants will be between $15,000 and $25,000.

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