Advancing global learning for students and educators around the world
Global Cities, Inc., a Program of Bloomberg Philanthropies, is a nonprofit organization dedicated to connecting students and educators around the world. We develop global competence among the next generation through our Global Scholars international virtual exchange program, which has so far reached nearly 127,000 students and 3,100 educators from 119 cities in 39 countries. We help all educators globalize their own classrooms and curricula through our research and workshops.
global scholars
Do your students have an opportunity to communicate directly with their peers across the world? The Global Scholars program, operated by Global Cities, Inc., allows students 10 to 13 years old to do just that in e-classrooms. See what students and teachers have to say!
educator workshops
The Global Cities Educator Workshops offer free, research-backed, interactive experiences that can help K-12 teachers identify, measure, and nurture key elements of global competency in any classroom around the world.
applied research
Global Cities has systematically identified nine key student learning outcomes for global education. Our research presents an evaluation framework based on those outcomes, with classroom-ready indicators that can help educators identify, nurture, and assess elements of global learning in any classroom in the world.
Learn more about Global Cities research, including the landmark Codebook for Global Student Learning Outcomes
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NEW REPORTS VALIDATE USE OF GLOBAL CITIES CODEBOOK
In two groundbreaking studies, researchers used the Codebook for Global Student Learning Outcomes to find evidence of global learning in different virtual exchange contexts. The Global Cities Codebook helped identify clear progress in indicators of global learning in exchanges operated by AFS Intercultural Programs and Harvard’s The Open Canopy.
Global Cities is a 2025 PIEoneer Awards winner!
We were honored to be named a winner of the PIEoneer Awards for Progressive Education Delivery for our Global Scholars program and our Codebook for Global Student Learning Outcomes, making global competency teachable and measurable.
Global Cities Pilots District-Wide Professional Development in MadriD
A recent collaboration between Global Cities and the Ministry of Education in Madrid, Spain boosted teachers’ global teaching toolkit district-wide — and shows how the Global Cities approach to professional learning can be replicated in school systems around the world.
Codebook Now Available in 5 Languages
You asked; we answered. Our English-language, research-backed guide to teaching global competency is now available in Catalan, Kazazkh, Russian, and Spanish, too.