These pathways lead to the development of cultural literacy by allowing students to
examine issues of global significance through interconnected sharing of experience and exchange of ideas.
The North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge is a state - level designation that enables educators to demonstrate their ability to engage students in understanding and acting on
issues of global significance by embedding global education in their instruction.
«Global competence» is defined as «the capacity and disposition to understand and act
on issues of global significance,» and is demonstrated by the ability to perform the following (Boix Mansilla and Jackson, 2011, p. xiii, p. 11):
Cuyler will spend a year building global competency skills (the capacity to understand and act on
issues of global significance).