The Global Education Toolkit for Elementary Learners

About Homa S. TavangarRebecca L. Morales

Homa Sabet Tavangar is the author of Growing Up Global: Raising Children to Be At Home in the World (Random House 2009) lead author of The Global Education Toolkit for Elementary Learners (Corwin 2014) and contributor to Mastering Global Literacy by Heidi Hayes-Jacobs ed. (Solution Tree Nov. 2013).  Growing Up Global has been hailed by national education and business leaders and media ranging from Dr. Jane Goodall to the BBC NPR NBC ABC Washington Post.com Chicago Tribune and Sun-Times Boston Globe PBS Scholastic Parents Magazine Rodale and many more.   Homas work is sparking initiatives to help audiences from CEOs to Kindergartners learn and thrive in a global context and have fun along the way.  She is the Series Consultant to NBC TVs original production of the animated childrens series Ninas World has served as Education Advisor to the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and as a Visiting Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania; she is a contributing writer for the Huffington Post PBS Momsrising GOOD Ashokas Start Empathy National Geographic and Edutopia among other media and is a sought-after speaker and trainer around globalization and global citizenship parenting globalizing curriculum empathy diversity and inclusion.    Homa spent 20 years working in global competitiveness organizational business and international development with hundreds of businesses non-profits and public organizations before turning her attention to global education.  She has lived on three continents is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of UCLA and Princeton Universitys Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.  She speaks four languages and her religious heritage includes four of the worlds major faiths.  Passionate around issues of opportunity and equality for women and girls she has worked on these issues for private companies and the World Bank and served on various non-profit Boards including currently on the Board and Executive Committee of the Tahirih Justice Center a national leader protecting immigrant women and girls fleeing violence.  She is married and the mother of three daughters.  Becky Mladic-Morales is the founder of Kid World Citizen (www.kidworldcitizen.org) offering parents and educators activities that help young minds go global. Her work has been featured on Scholastic the U.S. Department of Education NBC Latino MSN and PBSKids among others. She is a teacher teacher-trainer speaker and educational consultant. She has worked with different foreign exchange programs including the setup of the International Club at her local elementary school. Becky holds an MA in Teaching ESL with a concentration in Cross-Cultural Communication from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign; and an MA in School Counseling with a focus on immigrants in schools from Roosevelt University in Chicago. For the past 20 years she has taught  ESL in different settings ranging from high school to college level courses.  Her expertise encompasses global education geo-literacy service learning educational technology aiming to connect students worldwide as well as setting up cultural exchange programs. Becky currently resides in Houston with her husband and four children whose curiosity compassion and energy are her perpetual inspiration.