Inspire Educators
Teachers need to build global citizenship, service, sustainability, community engagement, and belonging into their curriculum. This is the HOW.
Co-Designing Learning Experiences
Inspire Citizens collaborates with educators to bring visions of holistic global citizenship to life in your classroom.
Utilizing our Empathy to Impact framework, we align with your school's learning outcomes to design transformative, Curriculum-integrated learning experiences with holistic global citizenship at the heart. This process incorporates curriculum knowledge, focusing on desired student outcomes by connecting to local and global issues. By fostering systems thinking and ethical reasoning, we empower students to collaborate with community partners to design, plan, and implement impactful, sustainable actions.
Inspire Educators Programs
Are you looking for in-depth professional learning that is flexible, online, and connects you to a global community of educators committed to meaningful impact?
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Programs for Educators
Join the Global Citizenship Certificate Program
Through this three-part program, participants will engage year-round with a global community in courageous dialogue, gaining practical skills, strategies, and resources they can put into action immediately. Together, they will strengthen local partnerships, build meaningful global connections, and empower one another to create a healthier, happier, and more regenerative future for their students, schools, communities and the planet.
Access our Short Courses
Check out our list of snack-sized professional learning modules. Simply choose a topic that connects to a learning goal at your school. Each module provides in 2-4 hours of learning tools, resources, case studies and frameworks to empower students to take action and have a positive impact in their community as global citizens.
Schedule Virtual Coaching Sessions
Sometimes, turning new learning into meaningful practice requires a trusted partner. Our Inspire Citizens Coaches support you and your team in designing impactful, authentic Global Citizenship learning experiences. We help you transform Global Citizenship Education (GCED) best practices into purposeful classroom action that reflects your curriculum goals, meets the needs of your learners, and responds to the realities of your local context.
Throughout the year, participants typically engage in 4–8 coaching sessions, each lasting 60–90 minutes. Support is available through personalized one-to-one coaching or group coaching.
Programs for Schools
Curriculum Design Workshops
Learn to design transformative, interdisciplinary learning experiences with holistic global citizenship at the heart. Empower learners through these powerful 1-2 day workshops designed to foster a deeper purpose, applied skills, and community engagement.
for your school, division, grade, or team, during Professional Development days or as a weekend regional workshop.
School Partnerships
Designing, implementing, and sustaining a curriculum based on the existing scope & sequence that integrates global issues, incorporates authentic community engagement opportunities, and is aligned to the school’s mission, vision, and values is no easy task.
We’ll partner with you to find the best-fit approach for your school’s needs, whether you’re preparing for accreditation or developing a long-term strategy for global citizenship aligned with your mission, vision, and values.
Learning Resources
Empathy to Impact Guide
Empathy to Impact is a unit design approach for educators to embed global citizenship into their teaching and learning or into their curricular/co-curricular programs. Follow these next stages to level up one of your own units, learning experiences, or programs today.
Community Engagement Guide
By moving from “doing for” to “learning from and acting with” communities, students can develop empathy, agency, and the skills to create lasting impact. Follow these next 5 steps to level up one of your own units, learning experiences, or programs today.
Empathy to Impact
UbD Planner
A structured UbD planner template that supports educators and students in designing meaningful, inquiry-driven units that lead to real-world action. Grounded in the UbD framework, it integrates the Empathy to Impact model to your planning process.
Inspired Educators in Action
Discover stories from our partner schools as they partner with Inspire Citizens
Featured Stories
Seeing the Wisdom in Transformational Community Engagement
An interview with Aaron Moniz, Co-Founder of Inspire Citizens
A Grade 1 Learning Experience about Anti-Bias
Inter-Community School Zurich (ICSZ)
Enhancing the PYP Experience through Action-Oriented Planning
Inter-Community School Zurich (ICSZ)
Reimagining Social Studies Curriculum through Empathy to Impact
Seoul International School (SIS)
How a Passionate Educator has been Inspired by the GCC
American International School of Budapest (AISB)
Elevating Educator Impact Through the Global Citizenship Certificate
International School Services (ISS)
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