We offer annual workshops for four Asian language (Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean) to local and national K-16 educators. 

Global Education Cohort Program

We work with the Global Education Cohort Program (GECP) to incorporate more Asia content into the course curricula and provide more learning experiences for GECP students to learn about Asia. 

Global Children’s Literature Teacher Fellowship

We collaborate with MSU College of Education, the African Studies Center, and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) to offer a Global Children’s Literature Teacher Fellowship program. This program will provide content and pedagogical knowledge training to K-12 teachers about how to select and use global children’s literature in their classrooms. Lesson plans and resources will be shared.

Community-based Heritage Language School

We work with the College of Education faculty in providing Asian languages to heritage language speakers in the local community.

Online Chinese Program

We collaborate College of Education and Michigan Virtual to offer a total of nine levels of credit-bearing online Chinese courses to secondary-level students in the U.S. Details about the course offerings can be found here.  

We collaborate with NCTA at the University of Pittsburgh on K-12 teacher workshops focusing on teaching about Asia.

Resources will be shared.

We collaborate with MSU Broad Art Museum and offer a teacher fellowship program that brings together classroom teachers with a team of MSU faculty and museum educators to connect local and global ideas through art.

Projects and resources will be shared.

We collaborate with the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Michigan and will offer a series of programs and workshops for K-12 teachers focusing on teaching about Asia using graphic novels.