Facing the Future
About: "Facing the Future: People and the Planet is a non-profit organization founded to help educate young people about complex global issues and promote critical thinking. We provide teachers, students, and the public with dynamic curriculum resources and community action opportunities that explore the global challenges of poverty, population, environment, consumption, and conflict, and tie these challenges to sustainable solutions that students can pursue in their everyday lives."
According to Executive Director Wendy Church: "The focus in k-12 education today is on core subjects: reading, writing, science and math. However, students today are overwhelmed and often rendered hopeless by what's going on with the world at large and what their place is in it. Teachers are faced with decreasing resources and increasing requirements to focus on core subjects and testing, and have little time or money to help students develop perspective as global citizens. And, while many programs exist that help students learn about the world through travel or languages, they are expensive and reach only a small fraction of students.
"Facing the Future affordably equips middle and high school teachers and schools with materials and training that help students make sense of their world, while at the same time enhance student achievement in core subjects. We provide standards-based curricula, professional development training for teachers and school-wide consulting on global issues and sustainability."