Teachers are the largest professionally-trained group in the world.
They’re not the problem. They are the solution—changemakers in everyone’s backyard.
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As the largest professionally trained group in the world, teachers know who is sick, missing, orphaned by disasters, and at risk for human trafficking. They are the glue that holds society together and a development army in everyone's backyard.
In the Small Places is a testament to teacher changemakers addressing our world’s intractable challenges: education in emergencies, corruption, racism, war, human rights, and girls’ education.
Eleanor Roosevelt once asked, "Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world.”
In the Small Places is about teacher agency in those small places - writ large.
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Teachers Without Borders
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Teachers Without Borders (TWB) is an international teachers network and development organization launched in 2000, with a mission to connect teachers to information and each other to close the education divide. TWB views teachers as a sustainable army of community change agents and key catalysts of global development.
Jane Goodall is Teachers Without Borders’s International Spokesperson. TWB’s membership spans 177 countries. Teachers Without Borders is best known for its work in education in emergencies, girls' education, and peace and human rights education.
Teachers Without Borders is comprised of 100% volunteers. TWB offers free membership, free downloadable resources, free courses, internships, and graduate fellowships. All course content and workshop materials are governed by the least restrictive Creative Commons license in order to foster sharing across borders.
AWARDS
Teachers Without Borders has been awarded the Champions of African Education Award (2010) for its use of radio to disseminate information about the United Nations Millennium Development Goals and to accelerate efforts in educational capacity and peace-building.
In 2018, Teachers Without Borders was also the recipient of two peace prizes: The Luxembourg Peace Prize, for Outstanding Peace Education Initiatives designed to build a climate of peace one classroom at a time, and The Ahmadiyya Muslim Peace Prize for "outstanding work in the promotion of peace through efforts to convene teachers from regions in conflict, provide unfettered access to courses and networks devoted to teacher professional development, and to ensure that Peace Education is integrated into all initiatives.”
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Borgen Magazine: “How Teachers Without Borders Combats Poverty”
University of California, Santa Cruz: “Bridging the Educational Divide on a Global Scale”
NBC News (online): “Chinese parents and teachers scramble following a government crackdown on tutors”