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One schools story, Student exchanges: Impacts & Success

Your Name and Title: George Thornton, Teacher

 

School or Organization Name: Oroville High School

 

Co-Presenter Name(s): Tony Kindred, Steve Quick, Students

 

Area of the World from Which You Will Present: Oroville, Washington State, USA

 

Language in Which You Will Present: English

 

Target Audience(s): Schools considering expanding Global Education with exchange experiences, schools looking for other experiences and models in exchanges and Global Eduation.

 

Short Session Description (one line): One schools story, Student exchanges: Impacts & Success

 

Full Session Description (as long as you would like): Oroville HS has been involved in reciprocal exchanges sponsored by iEARN with Turkey (YIEP) & Dominican Republic (Tres Bosques, Un Mundo) in the past two years. Students will share impacts, changes, success and opportunities that have sprung from these involvements. Oroville has moved to a sister school relationship with the Dominican Republic schools and has continued exchanges independently.

 

Websites / URLs Associated with Your Session: None.

 

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iEARNPermalink Reply by Buket Ertenu on October 16, 2011 at 11:26am

Dear friends in Oroville,

We are really glad to have met you during YIEP Fınal in Turkey.I want to congratulate you on your great success and entrepreneurial efforts to make a change.My students at KAL(Karsıyaka Anadolu Lisesi),my colleagues and I are looking forward to more collaborations with you and your smart ,globally aware students.Regards,

Buket ERTENU.

Permalink Reply by George Thornton on October 30, 2011 at 6:24pm

Buket,

 

Thank you. We are inspired by you and your colleagues as examples for us to build on. We feel like we are just beginning to see the power of international involvement and collaboration. Thank your for helping us out and working with us. We to look forward to collaborating in the future.

 

George Thornton

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