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- EIN 58-2350807
- 212-288-6987
- 329 East 82nd St # 2 New York NY 10028 USA
- www.reachtheworld.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Education, Educational Services, Primary & Elementary Schools
Mission:
While volunteering in disadvantaged schools, Heather Halstead and Marc Gustafson became concerned about teachers’ preparedness to meet the demands of the 21st Century and students’ isolation from the global community. In 1998, they founded Reach the World, an education nonprofit located in New York City. Its mission is to help elementary and secondary school students and teachers to develop the knowledge, attitudes, values and thinking skills needed for responsible citizenship in a complex, culturally diverse and rapidly changing world.
The skill set required to prepare tomorrow’s citizens for the global age must go beyond the “the basics” and even beyond the growing emphasis on math and reading. Reach the World believes that high achievement and investment in education are driven by an interdisciplinary, technology-rich curriculum – which most disadvantaged public school students are not getting. In fact, in about half of low-performing public schools, students are not getting anything more than reading and writing.
Through its interactive website, Reach the World enriches the school day by connecting classrooms to travelers who are studying, working or exploring around the globe. RTW identifies volunteer travelers, manages web-based educational content posted by these travelers, and delivers technology and curricular support via graduate student interns, drawn from local teaching colleges. The National Geographic Education Foundation named RTW a Model Program in Geography Education, one of only six in the nation. Have you traveled? Has anyone shared their travel stories with you? Has this affected your worldview? If you can answer “Yes” to any of these questions, then you understand the mission of Reach the World. RTW is capitalizing upon an existing energy in our society – travelers – and turning it into an educational resource for all children and teachers. Through Reach the World, the age-old tradition of traveling and sharing stories makes the leap into the digital age – and for once, disadvantaged students are along for the ride.Geographic areas served: New York, NY and Chicago, IL
Programs: Through its interactive website, Reach the World enriches the school day by connecting classrooms to travelers who are studying, working or exploring around the globe. RTW identifies volunteer travelers, manages web-based educational content posted by these travelers, and delivers technology and curricular support via graduate student interns, drawn from local teaching colleges. The National Geographic Education Foundation named RTW a Model Program in Geography Education, one of only six in the nation.