latest news

2022 Year-End

Update

Read more about our student outcomes and alumni success over the past year.

DOWNLOAD NOW

What's new

at GVP

All
  • All
  • Alumni
  • Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
  • Events
  • GVP News
  • Inspiration
  • STEAM
  • Student Stories
  • Teaching
  • Thought Leadership
james-eades-y1ms-h50FMA-unsplash
Jun 18

GVP stands with Black lives

By Jennie Jiang | Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion | Thought Leadership
Global Village Project stands in solidarity with the Black community and all those protesting and fighting for a more just society. The incidents of deadly racial violence that we have...
www.Jessica-Lily.com
Jun 12

Day by Day

By apelissero | Thought Leadership
Yesterday, I spent the afternoon at school. It felt really good to be there but very strange, too. I sat in my office with a mask on, signing student transcripts...
www.Jessica-Lily.com
Jun 05

Change is Coming

By apelissero | Thought Leadership
I wrote my last blog one week ago, not imagining all that might happen in one week’s time. I am still trying to process all that is going on and...
patrick-tomasso-Oaqk7qqNh_c-unsplash
May 29

Book Clubs and DEI at GVP

By apelissero | Thought Leadership
Last Thursday, we completed our final day of post-planning for teachers. We ended the day with an all staff Zoom session where we checked in and shared our superhero powers...
Reading
May 18

Literacies in Action

By apelissero | Thought Leadership
This morning in our team huddle, Ms. Danielle, our STEAM Coordinator, shared a story with us. It included chat messages between two students. She wanted us to see how one...
Global Village Walk_ 2019_00123 (1)
May 16

Better Together

By apelissero | Thought Leadership
Well, we made it. We did it. We hit a major milestone yesterday. With record speed and expert coordination and collaboration, we created a virtual learning program for GVP students...

in the

news

www.Jessica-Lily.com

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. 

Read more
What's New At GVP | GVP Updates & News | Global Village Project

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.

Read more
What's New At GVP | GVP Updates & News | Global Village Project

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.

Read more
Education For Refugee Girls & Women | Our Challenge | GVP

One Girl At A Time

A PLUS | 10/18/19

Global Village Project is the only school in the United States designed to meet unique needs of refugee girls with interrupted education.

Watch Now
Strengths Based Approach Steam Education For Refugee Girls | GVP

join

our village