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Oct 27

Teaching During COVID-19: A Q&A with Dr. Amy Pelissero

By Jennie Jiang | Teaching | Thought Leadership

We’re now more than two months into a school year that has been entirely reshaped by a global pandemic. While Global Village Project’s hybrid model includes one day on-site for...

Oct 27

Get to Know Your New CEO & Head of School

By Jennie Jiang | GVP News

We hope you’ve been following along as we’ve gradually introduced our new CEO & Head of School, Elizabeth Elango Bintliff. (In case you missed it, read our Press Release and...

Oct 27

GVP Alumna Becomes a U.S. Citizen, Votes for the First Time

By Jennie Jiang | Inspiration | Student Stories

Voting this election cycle has taken on added importance and urgency for most of us - but even more so for 20-year-old GVP Alumna Khaty Barati, who recently cast her...

Oct 27

London Runners Join The 2020 Global Village Welcome Walk!

By Jennie Jiang | Events

For the past eight years, the Global Village Welcome Walk has brought our community together to make the journey from Clarkston, GA, where many of our students reside, to Decatur,...

Sep 21

A Special Message from Head of School Elizabeth Bintliff

By Elizabeth Elango | GVP News

Dear GVP Friends and Community Members, Memories of my boarding school in the Central African country of Cameroon are flooding back to me this week as I start a new...

Sep 18

Practicing Kindness

By apelissero | Thought Leadership

Every now and then I see a few kind words come across my social media feeds, but most of the time these days, what I read there is not very...

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Dear Decaturish – To welcome refugees, we need inclusive education

Decaturish | 6/24/21

Like many students across the country, Lucia, a middle school student in Decatur, spent the past school year online. She worked with her classmates to solve the math problems projected across her screen.

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Lily Tova the therapy dog comforts refugee girls in Decatur

AJC | 12/1/19

Lily Tova barked excitedly and shook her gray pom-pom-like tail when she arrived for her most recent visit at the Global Village Project, a middle school for refugee girls in Decatur.

What one group of refugee girls is thankful for this Thanksgiving

CNN | 11/27/19

Along a short hallway on the upper floor of Decatur Presbyterian Church in Atlanta, a blue banner stretches across the wall, packed with scrawled messages of thanks and words swelling with appreciation.