If you are a school principal, a corporation executive, a registrar, an institutional dietitian, a social worker, an immigration attorney, a policeman, a guidance counselor, a director of personnel in a factory, a professor or a classroom teacher, a foreign student adviser, a business man, or a tourist traveling around the globe there are many things in Cultural Portraits that help you avoid offending the sensibilities of others and that provide a framework to develop cultural proficiency.

*The “Global Competence Matrices,” were created as part of the Council of Chief State School Officers’ EdSteps Project in partnership with the Asia Society Partnership for Global Learning.