Report and Analysis Provided by Danny Schiff and Clare Sisisky, Institute for Global Learning; and Ioana Wheeler and Amada Torres, NAIS
Executive Summary
Through a multi-year partnership designed to better understand the state of global learning in K-12 education, the Institute for Global Learning (formerly GEBG) and the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) collected and analyzed data from over 500 participating schools across North America and beyond from October to December 2025. The data reported by schools is for the 2024-2025 school year, the last completed school year at the time of data collection.
This data report benefits from having the largest number (510) of participating schools that either organization has seen for a global engagement survey. It also benefits from using a data collection tool that included many of the same questions as the survey from 2023 in which close to 500 schools participated. This allows both for general observations between the two sets of results and, more importantly, for direct comparison between the data points from 2023 and 2025 for the 260 schools that participated in both. With 51% of participating schools submitting data to both surveys, this report is able to include accurate analysis of any changes, and these have been included in the report where they are notable. This report also provides some further analysis and breakdown of the data when there were differences of interest, specifically by school size and geographic region.
Downloadable Content
- Read the full report: NAIS-Institute for Global Learning Global Engagement Report, 2024-25 School-Year Data (PDF; member login required)