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Hot Off the Press: Spotlight on Global Issues for the Classroom
From ending poverty and hunger, to promoting worldwide environmental sustainability, to ensuring universal education, investigating global issues can inspire today's students to start changing their world for the better, right now.
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The World Wise Window focuses on a new topic each issue, bringing educators stories with lesson plans from post-Tsunami Sri Lanka and Jordan to China and New Orleans. The Window examines global issues and cross-cultural understanding through folk tales, videos, slide shows, photos, and Volunteer-written narratives that come from a Peace Corps Volunteer's unique perspective on daily life in countries around the world.
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Past Issues of the Window
2011-2012
2010-2011
- May: Spotlight on Summer Gardening and Farming
- April: Spotlight on Asia and the Pacific Islands
- March: Spotlight on the Peace Corps' 50th Anniversary
- February: Spotlight on Global Education for Young Learners
- January: Spotlight on New Beginnings
- December: Spotlight on Eastern Europe and Central Asia
- November: Spotlight on Disease Prevention
- October: Spotlight on Service Learning
- September: Spotlight on Global Issues in the New School Year
2009-2010
- May: Spotlight on Summer
- April: Spotlight on the Environment and Earth Day
- March: Spotlight on Spotlight on Women and Girls
- February: Spotlight on Spotlight on Speakers Match & Correspondence Match
- January: Spotlight on New Classroom Resources
- December: Spotlight on Educating for a Flattened World
- October: Spotlight on Harvest and Food Security
- September: Spotlight on Service
- August: Spotlight on Global Issues in the Classroom Conference
2008-2009
- June: Spotlight on Sports and Games
- May: Spotlight on Women
- Apr: Spotlight on Food
- Mar: Spotlight on the Environment
- Feb: Spotlight on Service
- Jan: Spotlight on Story Telling
- Dec: Spotlight on Music
- Nov: Spotlight on International Education
- Oct: Spotlight on Business Development
- Sept: Spotlight on Global Issues
2007-2008
- June: Spotlight on Avoiding Mistakes When You Travel
- Apr: Spotlight on Learning Other Languages & Earth Day
- Mar: Spotlight on Peace Corps Week and World Water Day
- Feb: Spotlight on Community Service and Service Learning
- Dec: Spotlight on Holidays
- Nov: Spotlight on Change in Culture
- Oct: Spotlight on Adjusting in Another Culture
- Sept: Spotlight on Friends in Faraway Places
2006-2007
- May: Spotlight on Peace Corps Memoirs
- April: Spotlight on Foreign Languages
- March: Spotlight on Island Life
- February: Spotlight on World Thinking Day & Jordan
- January: Spotlight on Service Learning
- December: Spotlight on HIV/AIDS
- November: Spotlight on Educational Technology
- October: Spotlight on China
- September: Spotlight on Disaster Relief
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