Our Story
Global Language Project is the visionary product of Angela Jackson, its founder and CEO. Nurtured by her experience traveling for work with multinational companies and living in France, Angela saw firsthand that children abroad were multilingual at an early age, and that their ability to speak another language positioned them more competitively for opportunities in higher education and the global marketplace.
Combining her corporate management experience with the expertise of language educators and public-school staff, Angela developed Global Language Project (GLP).
In 2009, Angela launched Speak to Succeed, GLP's after-school language program, by offering Chinese and Spanish to students at P.S. 368 Hamilton Heights School in Harlem. The program started with 30 third-graders in that one elementary school and, within one year, expanded to multiple grade levels in several schools throughout New York City, and now serves 200 students in Manhattan and Brooklyn. In 2011, GLP increased its student base by launching an afterschool program at Federal Hill House in Providence, Rhode Island and in developing its Arabic Language and Culture Initiative at PS261 in Brooklyn.
In addition, GLP enhances its language study program through partnerships with the local community and top-level universities, consistently improving our objectives. These partnerships include:
- The Neighborhood Language Partnership: A partnership with local, multilingual businesses, helping students practice the languages they are learning through field trips, presentations and donations of materials.
- Research, Metrics and Evaluation Study: A partnership with New York University evaluating the key areas of GLP's work in language acquisition: comprehension, communication abilities, writing and success against district, state and national language-learning standards.
