Global Grandparents

So, how will Global Grandparents promote global literacy and competence?  

• By donating a globe to every classroom in your child or grandchild's school, along with a talking, interactive globe for their library, a resource book that can be shared among teachers, and suggested activities to make "Going Global" fun;

• By volunteering in a child's classroom or daycare center: reading a story about another country or region; sharing a scrapbook or photo album from a recent trip; teaching a song in another language; or perhaps helping a child find a global email pal;

• By creating an idea or project that will help our young citizens be informed, skilled, and involved in critical national and international issues;

• By making a financial contribution to any of the above projects or to one of the other promising initiatives of the Global Studies Foundation.

Recently inaugurated, this program works in tandem with GSF’s Globe Campaign and supports our effort to donate globes to elementary schools in all fifty states. Already we have placed globes in half a dozen states, with more on the immediate horizon. In particular, one recent donation of globes to three elementary schools in South Carolina was funded by a grandmother, our first Global Grandparents supporter, who has traveled extensively and shares an interest in providing global learning opportunities for local students. 

As the accompanying pictures indicate, administrators, faculty, and students at all three schools – Mount Zion Elementary, Angel Oak Elementary, and Edith Frierson Elementary – certainly seemed to enjoy and appreciate their new, hands-on tools for learning and teaching about the world.

 

The inspiration and leadership for this program come from Ms. Anne Senf, formerly “Miss Anne” on Romper Room, who serves as Director of Global Grandparents and as a member of the GSF Board of Directors. Previously, Ms. Senf was Assistant Director of Alumni Affairs at Duke University.