UN Goal 6 Ensure access to water and sanitation for all [Lisa Toner, Concordia International School, Shanghai, China] Fresh water is necessary for the survival of all living organisms on earth. It is water that carries nutrients to our cells, water that flushes out toxic wastes from our bodies and water that helps us to … Continue reading United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 6: CLEAN WATER & SANITATION
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United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 5: GENDER EQUALITY
UN Goal 5 Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls [Kim Tyo-Dickerson, International School of Amsterdam, The Netherlands] On the eve of International Women’s Day 2021, it is time to appreciate and celebrate women and girls everywhere who are working hard for a better future for themselves and others, as well as a … Continue reading United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 5: GENDER EQUALITY
United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 4: QUALITY EDUCATION
UN Goal 4 Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all [Kris Feller, Anglo-American School of Moscow, Russia] Education remains an inaccessible right for millions of children around the world. In fact more than 250 million children globally, or roughly 1 in 5 of all young people, are not in … Continue reading United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 4: QUALITY EDUCATION
United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 3: GOOD HEALTH & WELL-BEING
UN Goal 3 Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages [Benjamin Farr, Kambala Church of England Girls' School, Sydney, Australia] Good health and well-being is a fundamental goal that ensures a happy and healthy world community. The main focus of SDG 3 is to ensure that there is worldwide public access … Continue reading United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 3: GOOD HEALTH & WELL-BEING
United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 2: ZERO HUNGER
UN Goal 2 End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture [Rebecca Battistoni, Nansha College Preparatory Academy, Guangzhou, China] Current estimates are that nearly 690 million people are hungry, or 8.9 percent of the world population. The majority of the world’s undernourished – 381 million – are still found in Asia. … Continue reading United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 2: ZERO HUNGER
#WorldKidLit Wednesday: Wonderful Feels Like This
Writing fiction about music can be tricky. Music is sound in time; it speaks to our brains at a pre-verbal level. As a result, using words to describe music can be hard and the literature is littered with near-misses. So it’s a great pleasure as a musician to read a well-written novel centered around music … Continue reading #WorldKidLit Wednesday: Wonderful Feels Like This
United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 1: NO POVERTY
End poverty in all its forms everywhere [Eleanor Surridge, International School of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia] As a librarian, addressing poverty with our communities seems to present as a set of double-doors: one side swings to open the door to literacy and access to education and information which we know to have a direct impact on rates … Continue reading United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 1: NO POVERTY
March 2021: International School Teacher-Librarians and the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
This month the GLLI blog will feature book recommendations and reflections on practice and curriculum connections related to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (or SDGs, as they are commonly referred to), written by various international school librarian friends, whose brains I have picked and arms I have twisted. The UN 2030 Agenda (17 goals … Continue reading March 2021: International School Teacher-Librarians and the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
#BlackIsBeautiful: Celebrating the Beauty of Blackness with BCALA
The Black Caucus of the American Library Association (BCALA) thanks the Global Literature in Libraries Initiative for the opportunity to showcase titles that celebrate Blackness. It’s important to promote literature about Black people and written by Black people all year long. BCALA serves as an advocate for the development, promotion, and improvement of library services … Continue reading #BlackIsBeautiful: Celebrating the Beauty of Blackness with BCALA
#Black Is Beautiful: Past and Present
Black Is Beautiful In the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s, Barbadian-heritage Kwame Brathwaite used his photography to popularize the political slogan “Black Is Beautiful.” This monograph―the first ever dedicated to Brathwaite’s remarkable career―tells the story of a key, but under-recognized, figure of the second Harlem Renaissance.Inspired by the writings of activist and black nationalist … Continue reading #Black Is Beautiful: Past and Present
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