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2019 Winners

Excellence in Education-Awards

CTAUN Excellence in Education

There were 5 awardees this year. They are:

Dr. Nancy Brown, Florida Atlantic University for her book: Internationalizing Early Childhood Curriculum: Foundations of Global Competence SDG 4

Prof. Mindy Levokove, Teacher of Literacy, Lehman College, Bronx NY for her work with students: Climate Change Awareness – A Multi-Disciplinary, Multi-Sensory Approach SDGs 4, 6, 7, 12, 13, 14, 15

Nicole Savino Mulcahy, Teacher of Global Affairs, Cranford High School, Cranford, NJ. Project title: Global Affairs Cohort SDGs 4, 16, 17

Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy – Aurora, IL – Project Title: Envisioning a Sustainable Urban Center Built Upon Biology Principles SDGs 3 ,6, 11

Nacera Bouzekri, Science Teacher, Ahmed Zabana High School, Blida, Algeria. Project Title: Break The Fast SDGs 1,2,3,4,5,17

The following received International Recognition:

Mark Dinnen – Faculty Member, Faculty of Society & Design, Bond University, Queensland, Australia Project Title: The Bond University Model UN Program

Gurav Misra – Volunteer Organization, Dahradun, India Project Title: Project Utthan – Upliftment

Md Mamunur Rashid  – BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh Project Title: Shaping the Youth With Empathy Education

CURRENT EVENTS

Due to COVID-19 we are organizing a series of webinars online until it is safe again to hold in-person conferences at UN Headquarters in New York. Our most recent webinar "CLIMATE CHANGE AND GLOBAL HEATING: WHAT WE CAN DO TOGETHER TO RESTORE OUR BROKEN PLANET" took place April 22, 2022. Details and a link to the video are on the CONFERENCE page.

PREVIOUS CONFERENCES

"MULTILINGUALISM - THE NEW GLOBAL COMPETENCE STANDARD: MOTHER LANGUAGE +2" took take place Monday February 21, 2022
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Our 21st CTAUN Conference at UN Headquarters in New York "WAR NO MORE" honored the 75th anniversary of the United Nations and its purpose as outlined in the Charter.
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The CTAUN GLOBAL CITIZEN AWARD was established in 2017 to honor the memory of CTAUN co-founder Barbara Walker. The first recipient was The Right Honorable Gordon Brown in 2018, followed by Richard Curtis in 2019. The 2020 recipient was Cora Weiss.

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