Designing, building, and sustaining an impactful approach to global citizenship is no easy task. To support this adaptive process, we’ll partner with you to find the best option for your needs. We look forward to helping you in your journey, whether you are looking at upcoming accreditation requirements or are pursuing a pathway toward a robust approach to global citizenship as part of achieving your mission, vision, and strategic objectives.

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Design Sprints

Learn to design transformative, interdisciplinary learning experiences with holistic global citizenship at the heart. Empower learners through these powerful 1-2 day sprints designed to foster a deeper purpose, applied skills, and community engagement.
Contact our team to personalize Empathy to Impact curriculum design sessions for your school, division, grade level, or departmental teams.

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Design Sprint Overview

How the GCC can empower Global Citizenship in the Classroom

At Seoul Foreign School (SFS), Jamie Bacigalupo, a 9th and 12th grade English teacher, is applying idea after idea from the Inspire Citizens’ Global Citizenship Certificate (GCC) course to curriculum and strategic planning. 

Jamie's journey with Inspire Citizens began during her teaching tenure in Shekou, China. A conference at SFS featuring Inspire Citizens’ founders Aaron Moniz and Steve Sostak sparked her interest, and she attended the conference… (cont.)

A Grade 1 Learning Experience about Anti-Bias

In November, the grade one team at the Inter-Community School Zurich (ICSZ) embarked on an exciting journey to redesign a history unit. Working with Inspire Citizens, the team engaged in a generative process of ideation and planning that led to a vibrant outcome: Humans of ICSZ… (cont.)

Enhancing the PYP Experience through Action-Oriented Planning

The transformative power of a great educational partnership continues to gain momentum at the Inter-Community School Zurich. 

Reflecting on the three-year partnership that ICS Zurich has had with Inspire Citizens, Primary Principal Nat Atherton and Primary Years Program Coordinator Claire Febrey agree that it’s been time very well invested. And the impact of truly meaningful action components in the curriculum is well beyond what anyone could have imagined at the outset.

Reimagining Social Studies Curriculum through Empathy to Impact

David Mannell came to Seoul International School (SIS) in Seoul, South Korea, just six months ago as the new Director of Curriculum and Professional Development. 

He had worked at the International School of Curitiba in Brazil before moving to Seoul and was familiar with service learning and global citizenship education. Several years ago, in the early days of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), David and his team shaped the social studies curriculum there around the SDGs, so David has experience aligning social studies with service learning and a global perspective.

How a Passionate Educator has been Inspired by the Global Citizenship Certificate

Educator Dom Verwey remembers the moment of clarity as it came to him. It unlocked a resolve for him to adjust his stance as a master teacher who prioritizes pursuing sustainability and positive impacts alongside his students.

“Futures Thinking. It was a lightbulb moment,” says Dom definitively. “We have far more control over the future than what we might think.” (cont.)