The Institute for Global Learning has a strong commitment to both furthering research in the field of K-12 global education and to develop research skills amongst our network of global education practitioners, leading the work at their schools. The Institute works to support emerging and practitioner research in the field, and curates relevant findings to improve student learning and empower global educators.
Since 2021, the Institute for Global Learning has offered a professionally facilitated fellowship open to educators at Institute member schools. This year-long fellowship allowed Institute Action Research Fellows to learn about action research and execute a research project to improve global education practice at their schools, while learning from and with a cohort of peers.
The Action Research Fellows program focuses on global competence development at the K-12 level. Topics might include Assessing Student Global Competence Development, or Faculty Professional Learning for Global Competence Development.
This program provides training in graduate level research methods, leadership and professional growth, in addition to mentorship and personalized feedback. The body of work produced by each fellow is meant to further their own practice, the programming at their institution, and the Institute for Global Learning community.
Fellows will meet virtually for 90 minutes once a month from October-June, every third Thursday at 3:30-5PM Pacific // 6:30-8PM Eastern.
The cost of participation is $975. As a non-profit, the Institute for Global Learning offers this kind of opportunity to member schools at well below cost.
Dr. Clare Sisisky is adjunct faculty and a former postdoctoral research fellow at the Klingenstein Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, where her research focuses on immersive learning, climate action curriculum, and global citizenship education. She is the Executive Director of the Institute for Global Learning and earned her doctorate at the University of Pennsylvania.
Throughout the school year 2023-2024, a cohort of Institute Action Research Fellows designed and implemented a wide range of research projects at their schools. We would like to congratulate the following Fellows who worked on their research throughout the last school year and we are pleased to share their research topics. Many of them were able to share their research findings with their own school communities during the back-to-school season, at our annual conference, and have plans for continuing to use action research as a tool for furthering global education at their schools.
The Institute for Global Learning frequently publishes data reports on topics relevant to global education at Institute member schools. Member schools have access to these reports in the Institute Resource Library as well as through the Institute Listserv which distributes them. Benchmark data from both the Institute for Global Learning and partner organizations is also included in our annual magazine Interconnected every year.
Every year, the Institute for Global Learning publishes new research in the field of global education as well as research reviews by educators in our annual magazine Interconnected.
Global Education Benchmark Group (GEBG) is now the Institute for Global Learning, advancing our mission to connect educators and empower students worldwide through research, collaboration, and meaningful learning experiences.