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Welcome, Educators!

We make it easy for YOU to connect your students to the world through Carolina Navigators - for FREE!

Carolina Navigators provides K-16 teachers and students with global education resources created by Carolina students who have international expertise.

Since its inception in 1996, the program has served over well over 150,000 students in more than half the counties across North Carolina.

A program of the Center for Global Initiatives, Carolina Navigators enriches the education of both UNC and K-12 students through engaged learning.

This service is free of charge for educators in North Carolina.

What can you do with Carolina Navigators?

1. Borrow a Culture Kit.

2. Integrate a short Video Story, Photo Story or Article into a lesson.

3. Bring a Carolina Navigator service-learning student in your classroom for 10-12 weeks. (This option is open to schools in the UNC area during September-December and January-April. For more information, email navigators@unc.edu)

4. Participate in our Fall Virtual Cultural Fair during International Education Week. Sign up below to get event details, reminders, and resources to prepare your students for the event.

5. Make integrating our resources easy by getting our curated newsletter! About twice a month we'll email you our targeted newsletter highlighting the 3-5 resources that focus on a specific theme, country, grade level or curriculum area. Sign up below to get the newsletter!

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Thank you for giving us four wonderful presentations. Our students and staff are very grateful that you shared your experiences and music with us.

For many of us, living through your experiences will be the closest we will get to visiting the Andes.

Your presentation has given us fresh insights and connections to the Andean way of life and culture. Your joy and enthusiasm in performing Andean music was contagious. I was pleased to see our students spellbound by your many talents.

Thank you for taking the time out of your busy lives to share with our students. I hope that you will inspire them to want to travel outside of our small world.

Your presentation has broadened their world view and brought us much pleasure.

Suzie Thomasson
Starmount High School (Yadkin County)

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