Archive for month: November, 2021
What is COP26? Here’s how global climate negotiations work and what’s at stake
For two weeks this November, world leaders and national negotiators will meet in Glasgow, Scotland, to discuss what to do about climate change. It’s a complex process that can be hard to make sense of from the outside, but it’s how [...]
Have you mispronounced someone’s name? Here’s what to do next
Most of us have stumbled when saying an unfamiliar name. That’s natural, but it’s what we do afterwards that really matters, says writer Gerardo Ochoa. Do you remember being in 5th grade? I’ll never forget it — because that’s when [...]
The magic of collaboration: These two teachers created #GlobalSpeedChat to promote cross-cultural understanding among students
Colleagues, mentors, friends. This is how two TED-Ed Innovative Educators — Kim Preshoff and Jennifer Hesseltine — describe each other after meeting face-to-face for the first time. Below, Kim and Jen describe what happened next: It was one year ago at TEDYouth in [...]