Whether we’re running summer camps or afterschool programming, creating curricula for the classroom, or publishing storybooks, our goals is to teach children about the world, provide them them social emotional learning, equip them with 21st Century skills and improve reading and writing skills.

Summer Camps, Workshops, After-School Programs: We hold digital storytelling summer camps, after-school programs and workshops for youth ages 4-18 across the U.S. and in 7 countries abroad. 

Curricula: We offer curricula for use in the classroom, home-schooling or distance-learning in social studies, geography and customized. 

Activity Books and Activity Kits: Order our themed Activity Books and Activity Kits with country themes, themes about kindness, global heroes and more.

We’ve been teaching children about the world through storytelling and digital arts for ten years. With headquarters in Washington, DC and London, England, we are proud to work with organizations, parents, schools, libraries and companies around the world.

Our Mission: to help reduce inequities in education, help increase access to education, empower and connect children, bring about positive youth development.

Redesigning Education: Utilizing innovative approaches and evidence-based programming, we work with public and private sector clients towards inclusive education; increasing positive youth development (PYD); preparing youth with appropriate 21st Century Skills (STEM, digital literacy, global competencies) and preparing teachers, community members, adults, parents, family members- all part of the ever widening community of educators.

When one of our Founders David was 12 years old, his father worked at the White House. For David, this meant growing up going on Sleepovers at the White House. David and his friends still tell exciting stories of adventures at the White House, getting into mischief with the Secret Service, and bowling at the White House bowling alley.

One day David was telling Geeta, our other Founder, one of these stories. Together they decided to turn these adventures into a children’s book titled “Sleepover at the White House,” based on David’s real-life adventures. The idea quickly turned global. Why not write stories about Sleepover adventures all over the world? And that’s how the idea of Global Sleepover came about.  So although we started with a Sleepover at the White House, our stories then grew to other countries and places such as a Sleepover in Antarctica, India, Amazon, the World Cup in Brazil, Singapore, Egypt and other places and countries!

When we first began in 2010, we created solutions using interactive and multi-media technology to promote positive youth development, literacy, global competencies and meaningful youth engagement. These solutions were especially designed to be applied in low-tech and crisis contexts.  Our research team tested solutions for user experience, user design, impact and sustainability. During this pilot and feedback process that lasted 3- 4 years, we realized a solution wasn’t enough. Our solution, while versatile, needed to be couched in a specific context, catered to specific youth needs, integrated into a larger constellation. We then evolved to a model that integrates our solutions through programmatic implementation, empowers the individual and the teacher to integrate, and provides a programmatic agenda that can be measured and assessed.

As a global team, we have built and crafted expertise at all junctions of the programmatic lifecycle: assessment and survey combining qualitative and quantitative youth data, designing a solution, developing a plan for implementation, executing that plan, monitoring and evaluation, and sustainability.

We know your child is growing up in a global world where critical thinking and global understanding is needed. We are committed to empowering a new generation of multi-cultural global citizens and delivering equitable and transformative education. Our work also benefits and reaches children in conflict and emergency settings, disadvantaged communities and children with hearing, learning or seeing challenges.

We are proud to share our work with our collaborators and colleagues. Some notable presentations have been numerous presentations at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Mobiles Alliance for Education and USAID Education Officers Conferences, at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business International Roundtable, at Hackney University in England and at American University.

Global Sleepover is a 2017 nominee for a UNESCO International Literacy Prize and a 2017 Cohort Member of the United State Institute of Peace’s PeaceTech Incubator. In 2014, we were a finalist in a Telefonica and UK Gov’t Social Enterprise Competition and, in 2015, a recipient of the Creative Spark Grant Award in Washington, DC. In 2015 our cohort of interactive technologists were awarded the Library of Congress prize for Best Practices in Literacy.  We are published in the UK Enabling Education Review, presented at USAID’s YouthPower Webinars, a 2013-2014 Member of Google Campus in London and a current member of the National Endowment Arts (NEA) funded Gateway Media Arts Lab in Washington, DC.