Efforts to rebuild Ukraine are often measured in bricks and budgets—how many schools have been repaired, how much aid has been pledged, how quickly cities can be reconstructed. But what if rebuilding a nation doesn’t start with concrete? What if it starts with young...
When educators speak of transformational experiences, few stories resonate like that of Oksana Potelchak, a teacher at the German-Scandinavian School in Berlin. Two weeks after her students’ final project presentation in the Ukraine Youth Action Network (UYAN), Oksana...
https://mapworkslearning.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/closing_concert_copy-720p.mp4 In a powerful culmination of months of virtual exchange, students from Northwest High School in Omaha, Nebraska, joined students from Школа повного дня MriyDiy School and the Lviv...
We’re proud to celebrate Denise Mazurik, a passionate educator and Global Scholars teacher at Waiākea Intermediate School in Hawai‘i, for being recognized by the Hawai‘i State House of Representatives and the Commission to Promote and Advance Civic Education (PACE)...
Meet Olena, an amazing teacher from Lviv, Ukraine who is passionate about language learning and floral arrangements. Olena’s class is part of the Ukraine Youth Action Network (UYAN) which just recently shared their final group project. In this interview, Olena shares...
