Learning across communities.
Sharing ideas.
Building understanding.
Connected Classrooms is a planned PEGN experience that could allow classrooms to participate in structured, moderated educational exchanges designed to build curiosity, communication, understanding, teamwork, and respect.

Connected Classrooms is a planned concept, not a current nationwide program. Future pilot opportunities would depend on professional guidance, technical development, educator participation, safety review, funding, and testing.
Any locations or classrooms shown in concept graphics are illustrative and do not represent current participating schools. For more information on joining a pilot program click below.
Students often understand the world differently when they can learn directly from people whose communities, experiences, environments, or traditions differ from their own.
Connected Classrooms could create teacher-guided opportunities for students to ask questions, compare experiences, work on shared projects, and discover both differences and common ground.
*This program is designed around classrooms using computers and video conferencing applications. Students and educators could use our website as a hub for that connection. Guides and instructions as well as recommended lesson plans would be developed. Our long-term goal is to bring on partnerships to put computers in schools needing resources to make this project available to anyone. More specific information will come as this program is fully developed.

Educators could help prepare students, establish expectations, discuss rules on positive, appropriate exchanges. and guide the learning experience.

The program could use moderated video sessions around age-appropriate topics or shared questions.

Classrooms would work together on educational projects involving
community life, culture, science, history, service, creativity, or other suitable subjects.

Students would present what they learned, compare perspectives, ask questions,
and reflect on the experience.

Connected Classrooms would require careful planning around educator supervision, student privacy, permissions, moderation, communication controls, accessibility, and age-appropriate
participation. The concept would be developed and tested in stages before any broader expansion