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Teachers. Leaders. Worldwide. TEACHERS WITHOUT BORDERS (Founded in 2000) connects teachers to information and each other to close the education divide.

Teachers Without Borders connects teacher leaders to information and each other in order to bring about social change - on a global scale. We are Teachers. At more than 60 million, teachers are the largest professionally trained group in the world. Supporting teachers helps everyone catch up, catch on, and catch fire. Leaders aren't born or made. They show up. All Teachers Without Borders programs

have been conceived and led by local teacher leaders who make it their passion to connect education with health, economic development, livelihoods, and overall well being. We focus our attention on talented individuals and institutions, rather than wave our own flag. That's why honest, hard-working, transparent partnerships are an indispensable part of what allows us to have taken hold for fifteen years. These are not breathy and idealistic statements, but rather guidelines that inform our way in, through, and out of projects. We scale intimacy. We know that teachers learn best from and with each other. Trusted local teacher leaders serve as mentors who adapt content they and their colleagues create and mold to meet local needs. We incentivize sharing. We are strong advocates (and consider ourselves a pioneer and early adopter) of Open Educational Resources. Imagine if your word processor said, "Share As" instead of just "Save As." What we create we give away and what we get back is credibility and scale.

08/12/2026

Our first Burning Issues newsletter is out, and we chose a hard topic on purpose.

It looks at the child-protection emergency in , where the near-collapse of state institutions has left children exposed to recruitment by armed groups. We treat it the way we intend to treat every difficult subject: focused on the systems behind the headlines, not on graphic detail, and paired with guidance on emotional safety so you can teach it responsibly.

It asks students to sit with a genuine dilemma, whether children in armed groups are perpetrators or victims of trafficking, and why that distinction shapes how the world responds. No clean answers. Just the kind of thinking students need and relish.

This is what Burning Issues will be: the world as it is, made teachable.

Learn more and subscribe:

Issues facing teachers worldwide, focusing largely on our central themes: girls' education; education in emergencies; peace and human rights; diversity and inclusion. Special issue: Anti-Black Racism

07/29/2026

Burning Issues isn't new. Reimagining it is.

The old version of the Burning Issues newsletter did one thing: it brought pressing global issues to educators' attention. It was useful, but it stopped at awareness. Teachers told us that awareness wasn't the gap. The gap was the leap from knowing about a crisis to teaching it well on a Tuesday morning, to a real room, without getting it wrong.

So we rebuilt it around that leap.

The reimagined Burning Issues keeps the same commitment to the issues that matter, but everything now points at the classroom: a balanced overview you can actually use, vetted resources, practical entry points, emotional-safety guidance for the heavy topics, and a reflection prompt that treats each issue as professional growth, not just prep.

It was built by a small group of teachers — people who know what it's like to face these questions from the front of a room.

That's why it reads the way it does.

https://teacherswithoutborders.org/issues

The first reimagined issue is out. See what changed and subscribe:

Issues facing teachers worldwide, focusing largely on our central themes: girls' education; education in emergencies; peace and human rights; diversity and inclusion. Special issue: Anti-Black Racism

07/21/2026

Today we're launching the reimagined Burning Issues Newsletter!

It helps teachers bring one current global topic into the classroom, without spending an evening building a unit from scratch. Each issue gives teachers a clear, balanced overview, recent headlines to anchor it, vetted resources, and practical ways to open the topic with students. It closes with a reflection prompt to support meaningful professional growth.

What makes it different?

- It's a launchpad, not a lesson plan. We respect teachers' professional judgment and leave room to go deeper.
- Balanced treatment of complex geopolitical issues, no advocacy. Plain, politically sensitive language, written for teachers anywhere.
- Grounded in frameworks teachers already use (the OECD Global Competence Framework and CASEL's SEL Framework, and connected to the UN SDGs, so it maps to any curriculum.
- Emotional safety guidance for the hard topics.
- A reflection section, because teacher growth and student learning are the same project.

This is a commitment, not a one-off.

Our first issue is out now. Read more and download:

https://teacherswithoutborders.org/blog/burning-issues-is-back-rebuilt-for-your-classroom

The usual advice, when you launch something, is to lead with your easiest win. Pick the topic everyone already agrees on. Build early confidence. Save the hard material for when your audience trusts you. We did the opposite. The first issue of the reimagined Burning Issues is about the child-prote

06/01/2026

NOW FREE: I now have the rights to my book, “In the Small Places: Stories of Teacher Changemakers and the Power of Human Agency.” SO…I am putting it up for ANYONE to read, for free. Read the book for FREE on Medium: https://medium.com/in-the-small-places. Chapters added daily.

If you want a hard copy, please order it wherever books are sold. ALL author proceeds from hard copies will be donated to the Jane Goodall Institute. Jane was Teachers Without Borders’s global spokesperson. We miss her terribly.

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