Leveraging Global Competence to Teach Science
by Andrés Peñaloza Lanza, Educator and School Relations Consultant, AFS Intercultural Programs What are the intersections of global competence, sustainable…
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21st-century skills require 21st-century learning: new global adventures with AFS online programs
by Sean Reilly, Director of Program Development, AFS Intercultural Programs; and Milena Miladinovic, Communications & External Affairs at AFS Intercultural…
The Challenge of Assessing Intercultural Competence
AFS has a long-standing history of significant contributions to the research of intercultural education, often working in partnership with leading institutions…
A farewell after almost two decades at AFS
After almost two decades at AFS leading cornerstone strategic initiatives to strengthen AFS as a future-ready education organization and, most…
When Global Events Expose Global Needs
How education systems are—or are not—helping learners develop global competencies in the era of COVID-19 by Ana Caroilna Cassiano,…
Commemorating the Bergen-Belsen Liberation
This year’s 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp was a rather different occasion from the one…
What We’re Learning from the Black Lives Matter Movement
By the team at AFS International We are in pain. We hear the painful outcries triggered by the murders of…
AFS to resume limited study abroad programming for 2020 with heightened safety protocols and innovative program content
Since March, when COVID-19 forced AFS to suspend study abroad programs, many AFSers have been wondering if and when our…
AFS & OECD to Launch PISA Global Competence Results at Virtual Conference
At a time when global skills are in critical demand, the 2020 AFS Global Conference is set to host the…