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
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)
Library Networks – and – Innovative ways of enabling access to books from abroad
The international school library network in Singapore, ISLN, has explored several innovative ways to help schools get their hands on their Red Dot Award books each year. Access matters. ISLN's goal is to get as many people to read the four annual shortlists as possible in order to promote discussion and exposure to a range of … Continue reading Library Networks – and – Innovative ways of enabling access to books from abroad
The Singapore Red Dot Awards — an annual exercise in curating a basket of recent books for children in international schools
Collections of global literature for young people can be found all over Singapore — in the libraries of the 50+ international schools that serve the expatriate population of the city-state. Singapore is a privileged “bubble” in Southeast Asia in so many ways (economically, culturally, educationally, etc.) — and international schools are a bubble within that … Continue reading The Singapore Red Dot Awards — an annual exercise in curating a basket of recent books for children in international schools
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