When Global Events Expose Global Needs
How education systems are—or are not—helping learners develop global competencies in the era of COVID-19 by Ana Caroilna Cassiano,…
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Global Competence Certificate for Teens Now Available Online
At a time when understanding others is more important than ever but travel remains challenging, AFS Intercultural Programs is providing…
2020 AFS Janus: Commitment to Service in Times of Crisis
by Daniel Obst, President & CEO, AFS Intercultural Programs In August 1946, Stephen Galatti, one of the founders of AFS and a…
Rethinking the Role of Global Competence in School Curricula
“Providing all students the right opportunities to develop global competence will require significant changes in the classroom, including how much…
AFS Holds a Successful Ibero-American Week of Global Education
Under the theme of: Globalize, Connect, Transform, 6,000 participants from Latin America and Europe met last week to debate the…
AFS WWII Ambulance Drivers Last Post
Arthur Bruce Boenau (IB 57) Arthur B. Boenau was born on May 12, 1926 in Casper, Wyoming and grew up in…
Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the Bergen-Belsen Liberation
This year’s 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp was a rather different occasion from the one…
What We’re Learning from the Black Lives Matter Movement
By the team at AFS International We are in pain. We hear the painful outcries triggered by the murders of…
Leveraging Tech for Intercultural Learning
It’s clear that the pandemic has accelerated the use of technology and online learning for those of us in (international)…
