Global Kids, Inc. inspires urban youth to become successful students and global and community leaders by engaging them in content-rich, socially dynamic learning experiences.

Description and/or History:
Through its leadership development and academic enrichment programs, Global Kids educates youth about critical international and domestic issues and promotes their engagement in civic life and the democratic process. Global Kids has an innovative Online Leadership Program that trains students in 21st Century Skills and to use digital media and the internet to be engaged citizens and leaders. Through professional development initiatives, Global Kids provides educators with strategies for integrating experiential learning methods and international issues into urban classrooms.

Core Programs
Power of Citizenry Leadership Program
The Power of Citizenry program creates and sustains a network of Global Kids Youth Leaders who educate and inspire their peers to take action on critical issues in their own communities and around the world.

Academic Programs
Using interactive techniques that engage students in the learning process, increase academic skills, and draw connections between the curriculum and world affairs, GK educators conduct in-class workshops in New York City public schools. GK's Academic Programs create respectful, stimulating, and participatory classroom environments and promote understanding of current events and the democratic process.

High School for Global Citizenship
GK opened the High School for Global Citizenship in Brooklyn in September 2004. The school is building a community of learners who are informed about and developing skills to address the complex issues that are shaping our communities and our world. The school uses a multidisciplinary, project-based approach to education and creates the conditions necessary for youth to become appreciative of diversity, committed to social justice and guardians of human rights.

Professional Development Services
GK's special trainings provide teachers, administrators, parents, counselors, and youth workers with opportunities to develop an understanding of youth development and acquire skills in integrating a global perspective and current affairs into their academic and after-school programs.
Global Kids began in 1989 as a program of the Foreign Policy Association, was incorporated 1991, and become a fully independent organization in 1993.

Contact person: Nick Sage, Executive Assistant, (212) 226-0130, (email)

Address:

137 East 25th Street 2nd Floor New York, NY 10010 (See a map)

Directions:

We are located near the 6, R, and W subway stations at 23rd Street. We are a short walk from Union Square.   Nearest Metro/Subway Stop: 6 at 23rd Street,   Walk distance (in minutes): 3