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International Consulting

Globalization has meant that education, a highly nation-specific project, is finally beginning to operate on a multi-national stage – that is, educators, researchers, policymakers are all starting to realize that we need to look beyond country borders to figure out what is going on in education, what should be going on, and how to approach the challenges of improving and deepening educational quality worldwide. While opportunities in this area are quite new, they are growing. Again, technology is fundamental to this issue as technology serves as a catalyst for making schools and educators aware of and interested in one another at an international level, and only through technology can we gather and begin to understand an international picture of how education unfolds. Select a snapshot below to learn more about the kinds of work we do in this area.

CCT staff who have played prominent roles in this domain include Katie McMillan Culp, Daniel Light, and Harouna Ba.

• Snapshot 1
  Our largest international research effort grows out of our evaluation work with Intel investigating the impact and scope of its Teach to the Future program. Since 2000, CCT has evaluated the U.S. implementation of the Intel Teach to the Future program, an ambitious technology-infused teacher professional development initiative that has trained more than 100,000 teachers across the U.S. As Intel has expanded the program to more than thirty countries spread throughout Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America, our role has shifted from local evaluators to international evaluation advisors for Intel’s international K-12 education programs. As evaluators, CCT is helping Intel to track and understand the international impact of their programs. As advisors, we are helping local evaluators to devise evaluation plans that respond to and inform their home country's implementation of the program. This new role has given us an exciting opportunity to work directly with researchers and practitioners in these participating countries.
• Snapshot 2
  Our international research opportunities are exciting principally because they invite us to conduct situated classroom-based research, a historic strength of CCT, within new environments and settings. We have collaborated with educational technology organizations throughout Latin America from the Omar Dengo Foundation in Costa Rica to universities in Ecuador, Chile and Colombia, to national schoolnets in Argentina, Chile, Mexico and Brazil.