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World Heritage Week will celebrate Philadelphia’s fifth anniversary as a World Heritage City

Are you looking for ways to explain COVID-19 to your children or students? Are you looking for educational resources to help them understand what is happening?  

Global Philadelphia Association (GPA) has compiled the below online resources for educators and families with children at home. 

Use these Philadelphia Virtual Tours to explore the City of Brotherly Love from your classroom. This is an excellent resource for class trip preparation.

A Philadelphia virtual tour can be built into pre-trip class projects to engage student learning before traveling to Philadelphia. 

International Exposition Will Offer Over 100 Events from September 1 to October 15

Will Becker for GPA This past Martin Luther King Day, the Global Philadelphia Association was in full force in contributing to the educational discussion in celebrating Dr. King’s work. The day began at Girard College, in which GPA held a volunteer seminar at Global Citizen’s King Day event. The largest and oldest King’s Day of Service event in the country, approximately 6,000 individuals and families gathered for the festivities. GPA had a table in the civic engagement portion of the event, and this occurred alongside a job fair and other community-minded programming and activities.

Philadelphia, PA – Founded by West Park Cultural Center in 2008, the West Park Arts Fest is celebrating 10 years and moving to the Avenue of the Republic near the Please Touch Museum. This site is adjacent to the Centennial Commons – an exciting public space project under construction by Fairmount Park Conservancy as part of Philadelphia’s Reimagining the Civic Commons initiative.

Five years ago, Global Philadelphia Association and the City of Philadelphia established a joint venture to secure full membership within the Organization of World Heritage Cities. Through the World Heritage Education Program with Norris Square Community Alliance’s Intensive Preventative Services unit, the Norris Square Project utilizes heritage awareness to engage young people.

New this year, in celebration of Holland, the Grand Hall will be transformed into the World Market, a fun, lively space featuring a Dutch shopping village.

Kathleen Kotchick Takes the Lead at Independent, Bilingual and Multicultural School