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Happy International Education Week! Continue your celebrations throughout the year. Learn more and get some ideas here and here.
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Deadline December 1 for your resources, lesson plans, articles, recommendations, reviews, letters or other materials for the winter newsletter. Email your submissions to editor Susan Neyer (or at least let her know to expect something by then).
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Immerse your Students on a "Mini Peace Corps" Experience
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There's nothing more powerful to open your students' eyes to the world than immersing them in it. Add to that a volunteer project in a local community and the perspective of Peace Corps and you have a combination that could be life-changing.
Priscilla Garcia said it best in her article in our Fall Global Education News on her recent trip to Thailand with NPCA's Next Step Travel: "Staying in one place and really experiencing the Thai people and their culture was terrific. This was a 'mini Peace Corps' experience." It's an experience you can't get anywhere else but through Next Step Travel.
Now this experience is available as a custom trip reserved for you and your students to Guatemala, the Dominican Republic or Thailand. For groups of eight to twenty, the cost of one chaperone is included.
Visit our website to learn more about our Next Step Travel trips, then contact us to start your planning.
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Fall Newsletter Highlights Travel
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In case you missed it earlier, the third 2014 issue of our quarterly, resource-filled Global Education News is available in the Education section of the NPCA website. Here are some of the highlights of this issue: - Around the NPCA: WorldView Magazine Lesson Idea, Education Grants, Travel Program for Schools/Groups
- Peace Corps Highlights: Bloggers Tour, International Education Week
- Community Forum: Education by Experience, Beginnings & Endings
- Global Education Resources, Professional Development and Travel Opportunities and more!
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First Education Small Grant Awarded to Atlanta Area Returned Peace Corps Volunteers
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 The turn-around time was tight. Atlanta Area Returned Peace Corps Volunteers (AARPCV) had a project planned out, had found a number of other partners and sponsors, but needed just that last bit of funding to make it happen. A perfect fit for an NPCA Education Small Grant. Congratulations, AARPCV, on winning our first grant to launch your inaugural international fall film festival!
"This inaugural international fall film festival will establish an engaging mechanism for AARPCV to facilitate ongoing collaboration to raise awareness, to share experiences, to promote a dynamic dialogue of important issues around the world, and to offer opportunities for ongoing education and action. This annual event will also help to raise awareness about Peace Corps and AARPCV throughout the region."
Watch NPCA's and AARPCV's websites for news on the film festival and make your plans to attend!
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Global Competence Certificate
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The 15-month, online, graduate-level certificate program in global competence education was created by Teachers College, Columbia University, World Savvy, and Asia Society. Participating educators earn 12 graduate credits or 48 CEUs. Interested teachers can learn more by attending an informational webinar on December 1, 8-9pm ET. Applications accepted through December 12. Read More.
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Teachers of Critical Languages Program
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The American Councils for International Education implements this program, funded by the U.S. Department of State, to help U.S. K-12 schools start or grow their Arabic or Mandarin language programs. This program provides your school with a language teacher from Egypt or China to teach Arabic or Mandarin for one year. Informational webinars on December 11 and 16. Application deadline: January 26, 2015. Read More.
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Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange and Study (YES) Abroad
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The YES Program offers merit-based scholarships to spend an academic year abroad. This program increases understanding between people in the U.S. and people in countries with significant Muslim populations. Students live with host families, attend local high schools, do community service, and complete a capstone project. Applications for academic year 2015-16 programs are due January 7, 2015. Read More.
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ABOUT NPCA Founded in 1979 and headquartered in Washington, D.C., the National Peace Corps Association (NPCA) is a nonprofit organization at the center of a vibrant and united community of 215,000 individuals who share the Peace Corps experience. The NPCA champions a lifelong commitment to Peace Corps ideals by connecting, engaging and promoting its members and member groups as they continue to make a difference in communities in the U.S. and around the world. Learn more.
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