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Global Village School is a progressive, K-12 distance learning program featuring a social justice and peace-focused curriculum with individualized teacher services. Educating for a better world for 26 years: globalvillageschool.org

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Global Village School @globalvillageschool.org · Mar 31

🌍We're Global Village School -- a women-owned, LGBTQIA+-owned, accredited private school and non-profit organization serving amazing families around the globe.🌈

Hi there! 👋😃

Color photo: Two fists side by side over a black bacground with the letters L-G-B-T-G-I-A-+ written on the fingers.

Words beneath the hands read: Personalized, Holistic, Inspiring Education.

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Global Village School @globalvillageschool.org · 18h

Nacho Estrada's life and work was a powerful lesson in how laughter can connect people, strengthen communities, and improve educational outcomes. Click the link to explore his enduring legacy and the powerful lessons he shared with the world.

#accredited #secular #homeschool #dowhatworks
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Global Village School @globalvillageschool.org · 18h

👩‍👧‍👦Been thinking about this timeless quote all day.

𝗥𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗜𝗴𝗻𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗼 '𝗡𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗼' 𝗘𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗮: 𝗔 𝗟𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗰𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗟𝗮𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
https://bit.ly/4qBRszI
📸: by GVS using Canva

#inspiration #laughter #education #socialjustice
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Black-and-white photo: A smiling Ignacio Estrada and a ventriloquist dummy. On the right of the image, in a blue field, multicolored text reads: “If a child can't learn the way we teach [white font], maybe we should teach the way they learn [orange font].” -Ignacio Estrada

📸: Daniel W Torres

Global Village School @globalvillageschool.org · 1d

Though the pages are yellowed and the language a bit stiff, you'll immediately recognize the classic format -- a true testament to Comenius's originality.

#accredited #secular #homeschool #distancelearning
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Global Village School @globalvillageschool.org · 1d

Comenius was an instrumental figure in the evolution of learning from rote memorization into something accessible and engaging for young minds. Plus he gave us such timeless gems as "The dog grinneth"!😃

#educationhistory #picturebook #myfirstspeller
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Global Village School @globalvillageschool.org · 1d

His most celebrated work, the Orbis Sensualium Pictus (The Visible World in Pictures), is considered the OG children's picture book. Discover how his radical theory -- that there is inherent worth in every child -- set the stage for a transformation in educational pedagogy.

#kidlit
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Global Village School @globalvillageschool.org · 1d

John Comenius, a 17th-century Czech philosopher, championed the revolutionary idea that people learn via their senses, paving the way for more inclusive and effective teaching methods for young people.
📸: John Comenius

#readearly #readoften #readaloud
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Color photo: Old illustrated page showing animals and the sounds they make (the serpent hisseth, the chicken peepeth, etc).

Left: drawings of animals like cat, dog, and owl. Center: Latin phrases with English translations. Right: letters N-Z.

📸: John Comenius

Global Village School @globalvillageschool.org · 1d

🤓MUST READ: a fun bit of educational history for anyone interested in the evolution of learning systems for kids!

𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻𝗶𝘂𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗻’𝘀 𝗣𝗶𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸
https://bit.ly/434h3HL
📸: John Comenius

#childrensliterature
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Color photo: Old illustrated page showing animals and the sounds they make (the duck quacketh, the bear grumbleth, etc).

Left: drawings of animals like cat, dog, and owl. Center: Latin phrases with English translations. Right: letters A-M.

📸: John Comenius

Global Village School @globalvillageschool.org · 2d

And in a classic twist of karmic justice, she now has a picky eater of her very own!😱

"I know the frustration of being browbeaten into eating something with a texture or smell I couldn't bear, of staring down a plate of unfinished food for hours," she says.
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Global Village School @globalvillageschool.org · 2d

"This morsel is the scandal of a child who turns down a meal bought with long labor and prepared with love."

Shame never stopped her from refusing food, Irina Dumitrescu writes. Despite her family's endless creativity she was, for a time, a card-carrying picky eater.
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Global Village School @globalvillageschool.org · 2d

A mom reflects on her childhood as a picky eater in Ceaușescu's Romania and how it informs her attitude toward her son's current bout of food selectiveness.

"In some parts of Romania, the last bit of food left on a plate is called rusinea, the shame."
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Global Village School @globalvillageschool.org · 2d

"I do not want the family table to be a battleground for his bodily autonomy."

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗞𝗶𝗱 𝗜𝘀 𝗔𝗹𝗹 𝗥𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁: 𝗜𝗻 𝗗𝗲𝗳𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗣𝗶𝗰𝗸𝘆 𝗘𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴
https://bit.ly/4nudUZ4
📸: Annelise Capossela
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Color illustration: A bottle of red ketchup pours its contents onto an open faced cheese sandwich set on a plate in front of a microwave, as a cascade of airborne pickles descends from the top left corner of the image toward the individual slice of orange cheese.
📸: Annelise Capossela

Reposted by Global Village School

Margot Hodson @margothodson.bsky.social · 2d

“Hurricane Melissa is yet another stark reminder that islands such as Jamaica face the brunt of accelerating extremes amplified by climate change, despite being among those who are the least responsible for the problem,” Leanne Archer, University of Bristol

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Reposted by Global Village School

juststeller.bsky.social @juststeller.bsky.social · 2d

IMPORTANT: The Jamaican government has launched its own website to coordinate Hurricane Melissa relief and recovery ⤵️

supportjamaica.gov.jm

(according to this article:
jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news...)

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Reposted by Global Village School

Altmetric's Ghost Donut @altmetric.com · 2d

Bluesky has overtaken Twitter/X as the highest social engagement metric for the entire publication corpus of some universities.

Here's all the attention for all research from Rhodes University, ZA. In October 2025 Bluesky mentioned their research more than X/Twitter.

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Attention graph in various colours showing where research from Rhodes University has been mentioned in various locations online including Twitter, Bluesky, podcasts and news.

Twitter mentions of any research from Rhodes University = 1,275 mentions

Bluesky mentions of any research from Rhodes University = 1,306 mentions

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Global Village School @globalvillageschool.org · 3d

The event became a seminal moment for labor and environmental movements alike, and was one of the key drivers of the development of the Clean Air Act.

𝗗𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗿𝗮 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝗺𝗼𝗴 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗲𝘂𝗺
https://bit.ly/4oErSIK
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Global Village School @globalvillageschool.org · 3d

The poisonous smog killed 20 people, dozens of pets, and sickened another 6,000 or so persons (nearly half the town's population at the time).
📸: New York Times
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Black-and-white photo: NYT headline and lede from October 13, 1948

Headline reads: 'Smog' Linked to 18 Deaths in Day and Hospital Jam in Donora, Pa.

Global Village School @globalvillageschool.org · 3d

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝘆 𝗗𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗿𝗮 𝗦𝗺𝗼𝗴 𝗼𝗳 𝟭𝟵𝟰𝟴 𝗦𝗽𝘂𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗘𝗻𝘃𝗶𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 -- 𝗕𝘂𝘁 𝗛𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗪𝗲 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗼𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗻?
https://bit.ly/4qBYbKj
📸: Alfred Eisenstaedt - The LIFE Picture Collection - Getty Images
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Black-and-white photo: arial view of Donora PA, showing workers' homes on a hillside and the U.S. Steel Plant, belching smoke, in the background.

📸: Alfred Eisenstaedt - The LIFE Picture Collection - Getty Images

Global Village School @globalvillageschool.org · 3d

ON THIS DAY in 1948, poisonous soot and smoke released by steel plants blanketed the town of Donora, PA with a cloud of sulfuric acid, nitrogen dioxide, fluorine and other heavy metals for FIVE DAYS.

📸: Bettman
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Black-and-white photo: image of a car parked at the curb of a smoggy downtown street in Donora PA. The photo, taken at noon, looks as though it were taken in the dead of night.

📸: Bettman

Global Village School @globalvillageschool.org · 5d

"Our students deserve to know that anti-communist repression has always been about a lot more than Russian spies, a blustering senator from Wisconsin, and a blacklist in Hollywood."

#coldwar #ironcurtain #socialjustice
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Global Village School @globalvillageschool.org · 5d

And so she got to work on a lesson she says she wishes she'd had back then -- and now you can have it too! A terrific resource, as always, from the exemplary educators at the Zinn Education Project. 💪

#algerhiss #therosenbergs
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Global Village School @globalvillageschool.org · 5d

In her two decades teaching high school, Ursula Wolfe-Rocca "struggled" to teach the McCarthy era effectively, finding the treatment in textbooks mostly superficial.

#joemccarthy #redscare #socialstudies
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Global Village School @globalvillageschool.org · 5d

"Whenever organizers challenged the status quo, [...] its defenders screamed 'communism.'"

𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝗠𝗰𝗖𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗵𝘆𝗶𝘀𝗺: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝘁𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗼𝗻 𝗔𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗺 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗪𝗼𝗻'𝘁 𝗦𝗲𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗮 𝗧𝗲𝘅𝘁𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸
https://bit.ly/47Cu0Lf
📸: Sources in Caption
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Color image: photo collage of Americans targeted for "communism". Clockwise from top left - Louise Thompson Patterson, Josephine Baker, Hallie Flanagan, Frank Kameny & Emma Tenayuca. At dead center is Harry Bridges.

📸: Bundesarchiv, Bild; Public Domain; Public Domain; Library of Congress; The San Antonio Light Collection, The Institute of Texan Cultures at UTSA; Harold Ellwood

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Global Village School @globalvillageschool.org · 6d

This material can skew a bit wonky (it's C-SPAN after all), so it's probably best suited for high schoolers, but the platform lets you filter videos for middle school content, so don't be shy!

#bicameral #powerofthepurse #unenumerated
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Global Village School @globalvillageschool.org · 6d

From C-SPAN Classroom, a series of conversations with lawmakers about the powers of the legislative branch and its role in the system of checks and balances.⚖️

#freelessonplans #representativedemocracy
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Global Village School @globalvillageschool.org · 6d

For your social studies toolkit:

𝗟𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗻: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀
https://bit.ly/4njnXQy
📸: Brookings

#homeschoolresources #civics
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Color Photo: View from the cheap seats at the back of the U.S. House of Representatives showing a full house during a State of the Union Address.

📸: Brookings