This chapter was inspired by the ISTE Global Collaborator standard.
Take a look at the videos below to see this standard in action in real world classroom settings!
Youth Voting Rights: Game Changers. Videos of students creating change in their communities from the civics collection of PBS Learning Media.
Volunteer or Voluntold: Does Required Community Service Benefit Youth? Benjamini Oosterhoff. Psychology Today, January 7, 2019.
Do You Need Community Service Hours to Graduate. California Learning Resource Network, July 2, 2025.
Helping people, changing lives: 3 health benefits of volunteering. Mayo Clinic Health System (2023).
How Volunteering Improves Mental Health. National Alliance on Mental Illness (2022).
World Languages and English Language Learners
The 10 Most Spoken Languages in the World in 2025. James Lane. Babbel, January 24, 2025.
Nearly 68 Million People Spoke a Language Other Than English at Home in 2019. United States Census Bureau.
English Learners in Public Schools. National Center for Education Statistics.
What You Need to Know about ELLs: FAQs. Lydia Breiseth. Colorin Colorado, 2025.
Living the Culture: Native Languages. National Museum of the American Indian, 2020.
World Languages: Pre-Kindergarten to 12. Massachusetts Curriculum Framework, 2021.
AI & Language Translation
The New Air Pods can Translate Languages in Your Ears. This is Profound. The New York Times. September 18, 2025.
What are the differences? A comparative study of generative artificial intelligence translation and human translation of scientific texts. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (2024).
GenAI as a translation assistant? A corpus-based study on lexical and syntactic complexity of GPT-post-edited learner translation. System (2025).
Global Collaboration Projects
Global Monster Project 2024. Smithclass.org
Virtual Valentines 2025: Melting the Miles Between Classrooms
Awesome Squiggles K-12 Collaborative Project. Go Global Edu.
The Global Read Aloud: One Book to Connect the World.
Additional Resources
Democracy in Dialogue Virtual Exchange Program. Smithsonian.
United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). United Nations, 2025.
Consider using the the PAIRR (Peer & AI Review + Reflection) framework from UC Davis for Activity 2!
In images: New England’s ‘Town Meeting’ tradition gives people a direct role in local democracy. Associated Press (2024).
Massachusetts Law about Town Meetings. Commonwealth of Massachusetts (2025).
A Brief History of New England Town Meeting Controversies. New England Historical Society (2022).
New England or 'Open' Town Meetings. Participedia.
The Evolution of Town Meeting. Bedford, NH.