Marble Hill for International Studies

Marble Hill School for International Studies
Iris D. Zucker, Principal (IA) Making Multicultural Education Manifest by Steve Feld

Beijing

Subject: school cooperation in beijing china
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 22:19:01 -0800
From: sjfeld@erols.com
To: Disha cnguide@sina.com
Disha wrote:
Dear Sir,
We are a private boarding school in Beijing China. We are located in south of Beijing with 27,000 m2 building area. At present there are app. 500 students 90 employees. Our students are from age of 06 - 18 years. We are government authorized one of 7 private schools in Beijing. We are looking for partner who would like to work with us together to develop our school¡äs education quality, to give student better chance to study foreign language and prepare their further study abroad. We would like to find a partner to cooperate with us to manage the school together, build an advanced study plan. We want to make our school a good name for international education. Of course, we are ready to share all profits with the partner together.
In short, following are what we would like to have:

1. key teachers
2. school management involvement
3. study plan for foreign languages
4. be able to find sources for students to go to abroad for further studying.
5. international study exchange

If you are interested in this kind of co-operation, you are most welcomed to contact us at:
Tel: 0086 139 104 20206
Fax: 0086 10 8049 9981

Sincere yours
Disha Ciao
email: cnguide@sina.com
School Development Manager

Paris France

Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 16:46:35 +0100 (MET)
From: Karima LEBDIRI KARIMA.LEBDIRI@wanadoo.fr
To: sjfeld@erols.com
Dear Mr Feld
My name is Karima Lebdiri and I teach English in a secondary school near Paris. I am looking for penfriends for a group of pupils (10 aged: 13 and 14). We are working on multiculturalism in America and I think that it could be a good idea if we could work on this and we could think of a class project together (multiculturalism in Paris and New york). If you think that this kind of project may motivate your students, we could work together. I've got plenty of ideas but I need to know if you would like to work on that with me. I really hope that I will have an answer from you soon...
Karima

Roumania

Subject: school projects
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 03:56:29 -0800 (PST)
From: Radu Catalin
Hello!
Our school is in an old region of Roumania, namely Cotnari-Hodora. This region is mentioned in many documents of the Middle Ages. For instance, here, in this region, Stefan the Great, a hospodar of Moldavia (the East region of Roumania) halted many times and he enjoyed by good wine which make here.
The locality Hodora is in the North of the city Iassy and in the North-East of Roumania. In our school learn pupils with ages comprised between 3 and 14-15 years old.
We are looking for some partners for develop together a school cultural projects or any other projects.
See you!
Catalin Radu

Brazil

Subject: schoollink
Date: Sun, 07 Apr 2002 07:46:00 -0700
Hello. I am a teacher in Brazil and I am interested in linking my school with yours. i am sure it is a great opportunity to learn english. Would you like to try? Thanks
regards teacher Cida Proença rodpro@bol.com.br
USA Brazil SchoolLink 2002

Pakistan

Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 10:39:33 +0100 (BST)
From: Riaz Hussain rhus2002@yahoo.co.uk
To: sjfeld@erols.com
Dear Steve Feld
My school details are available on www.wotw.org.uk. I would very much love to develop a link with your school. Let me know what do you think about it?
All my best wishes,
Riaz Hussain
Principal
Pamir Public School,
Garamchashma, NWFP,
Pakistan.

England

Subject: Re: World School Project
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 07:06:55 -0700
From: k_russell
Hello,
I am a teacher at a school in England.
I am setting up a project for a group of over 250 11 year old pupils, in order to help and encourage them to find out about schools and pupils around the world, in a much more personal way than just looking up information in an encyclopaedia.
This will involve them making e-mail contact with pupils in other countries and asking questions about the nature of the school, the environment and the community.
If you would like any of your pupils to be involved please could you send me contact e-mails which I can then pass on to my pupils. Or if you would like any more information about this project then please do not hesitate to contact me.
If I have not heard from you by the 21st June I will assume that you do not want to be involved.
Thank you for your time and I look forward to hearing from you.
Katie Russell
Ilkeston School
King George Avenue
Ilkeston
Derbyshire
ENGLAND
DE7 5HS
0115 9303724

Kumba, Cameroon West Africa

From: Godwin Opara
Dear Steve Feld, I have the pleasure to write and formally introduce our college, Denis Comprehensive College, Kumba, Cameroon to you, and to seek as well, your school's accord for us both to establish a school linking partnership under the auspices of the Cenral Bureau of the British Council. We already have a partner school in the name of Medina High School in the Isle of Wight, England. We however, really wish to broaden our links so as to have a wide range of contacts for a wider experience, knowledge and vision of the world for our students especially and the staff as well. For further information concerning our college, please get the following data about our school:

Name and position of contact person:Godwin Opara, College Principal.
School/College Name: Denis Comprehensive College
Full Address: Commonwealth Avenue, P. O. Box 388, Kumba, South West Province, Republic of Cameroon, West Africa.
Telephone: (237) 787:60:97 Email: dencomp@yahoo.com
Type of school: Comprehensive secondary school,
Number of students: 250. Location: Urban.
Age range of students 11 - 20 years.
Normal language of instruction: English
Other language(s) in use: French
NOTE We look forward to promoting in our link letter writing among our both students, exchange visits of students and staff, joint projects in specific areas like creative writing and publishing etc.,promotion of environmental awareness and campaign against anti social behaviour among students. Also tourism enjoys a pride of place in our project focus as we would like our partners like oursleves to discover more about the bio-diversity etc. of our both countries. Further still we are as well interested in the domains of science, language, art, social education, culture and information technology. We shall be very happy to hear from you ! soon as we look forward to establishing an enduring school linking partnership with your school in this laudable school linking programme of the Central Bureau. Accept please, expressions of my best wishes.
Godwin Opara.

GHANA West Africa

SCHOOL PARTNERSHIP
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 08:44:34 -0800 (PST)
From: thomas owusu owusuthomas@yahoo.com
To: sjfeld@erols.com
Dear Sir/Madam,
I wish to apply for a partnership between your esteemed school and ours.
Rhema preparatory School was established seven years ago. It has a population of four hundred pupils whose ages range between 1½ and 14.
We teach subject that covers and embraces such areas as Agriculture, Arts, Culture, Religious Studies, Citizenship, Music and dance, social and personal education, and excursions tourism, arts Science. Environmental studies, and others.
Rhema polytechnic was also established as a branch almost two years ago. It has a population of about 170 students whose ages are between 12 and 28 years. We teach subjects such as Computing, Accounting Secretarial studies, Business Studies, Marketing, Finance Technology, Science, Construction and many others.
We are ready to enter into a meaningful and strong partnership with your school. We are ready to comply with all terms, conditions that may be necessary to keep the partnership strong and durable. I hope to hear from you as soon as possible.
Yours faithfully,
OWUSU .A. THOMAS (Director)

Konya TURKEY

Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 16:00:12 -0800
Mevlut Aydogmus wrote:
Dear Sirs,
I m an English teacher in small town,Yalihuyuk of Konya.There are two schools in our town. Primary School including secondary part and a high school.These are public schools. There are three hundred students.We would like to make cooperation with foreign schools.
In this case , our students may write eachother. They can learn more about your culture,education,tradition and you students also may have info about Turkish people.
Later we can develop our cooperation more.
Best Regards.
Mevlut Aydogmus
Yalihuyuk 42470
Konya TURKEY

ROME ITALY

Re: Proposal of educational exchange rome
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 16:01:48 -0700
I'm Antonella DIMITO a teacher of the "Liceo Scientifico G. Galilei" in Civitavecchia- Roma. I found your e-mail address on the website of The British Council (you can find mine on EU database :http//partbase.eupro.se) I'm in charge of organizing educational exchanges.
My school is involved in some projects of students- exchange (age 17-19) with European schools (Socrates-Comenius Language Project) and now I'd contact American schools for the project. I'd find an American partner school, choose a common subject and work on.
The project will end with the students exchange.
A first group of students (about 20 ) will be accomotated in host families with their collegues of the partner school (about two weeks) and attend the lessons at host school. After a period of 2-4 month viceversa. I think it is a good opportunity for the students to know the ways of life, people of another Country and so on. The students exchange could be the next school year. I hope to receive your replay.
Best reguards
Antonella Dimito
Liceo Scientifico "G. Galilei"
Via dell'Immacolata n.4 Civitavecchia (Roma)
Phone number : 0039 076625645
e-mail address: lsscivit@tin.it
Web-site: web.tiscali.it/liceogalilei
PS: In case our offer cannot be accepted, we would be very grateful if you forward this message to those possibly interested.

Poland

Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 17:37:29 +0100
From: bartol10@op.pl
My name is Bart³omiej Fedczyszyn. I am teaching English in lower high school in Poland. My school is in Tomaszów Lubelski and we have 1.500 students. We would like to start an exchange of projects (in English) between our schools in order to get to know each other and understand our cultural differences better. We are interested in subjects like : culture, history and building www pages. If you want to take part in our challenge please send us information what you think about it. Then we will present our educational projects which involve the abilities and work of our schools.
yours sincerely,
Bart³omiej Fedczyszyn

Marrakech Morocco

Subject: Re: Partnership Project (Marrakech-Morocco)
Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2002 19:05:40 -0800
From: omar amahmid amahmid@hotmail.com
Omar Amahmid wrote:
Dear Mr. Steve Feld,
First of all, please, if you permit I will introuduce myself. I'm Omar AMAHMID, and work as a Teacher in a School in Marrakech (Morocco,North-west Africa), called Zerktouni School.
I've found your e-amil adress in the internet, web site http://www.wotw.org.uk/partner/ while exploring the Data of School inytereted by carrying out projec with other schools beloning to foreign countries. We would be more than glad to establish links with your School and see the possibility of carrying out projects together so as to make students/teachers of our school talk to each other and learn about their respective cultures...
Please let me whether you are interested by this kind of links.
I wish you the best and lok forward to hearing from you.
Mr. Omar AMAHMID
Zerktouni School
Massira 1
Marrakech 40 000
Morocco
Ph: 212 44 34 03 70
E-mail: amahmid@hotmail.com

Ukraine

Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 14:07:23 +0200
From: "Miroslava Polischuk" polischuk@ukr.net
Dear American colleagues!
We are a group of Ukrainian teachers. We are sending you our best wishes. We work at one of Kyiv high schools. The number of our school is 157. Our school is considered to be a pretty good one academically and rather progressive. After finishing our school many students consider receiving greater education and enter universities.
We have been very interested in finding the real partner abroad especially in the USA. Since Ukraine used to be part of the Soviet Union for several decades and had lived behind the "iron curtain" for a long time, we also have the feeling that our students and teachers lack knowledge about the history of your country, principles of democracy, politics and current events. We would like to learn from you, to exchange letters in English, try ourselves in different projects. The level of English of many students in our schools allows to do that. Many students have access to Internet and they keep friendship with their peers in the U.S.
In fact, this kind of work is not something new for us. Last year the 6-th grades of our school were exchanging letters with the 6-th grades from one of the schools in Abilene, Texas. There was an article in the local newspaper about that. That inception was arranged by an American Peace Corps volunteer, Margie Shuler. We consider ourselves fortunate to have been working together with Mrs. Margie Shuler for nearly two years. This has been a unique opportunity for all the students and teachers of our school. Communicating with her personally for us was almost the same as if interacting with the whole American society and Mrs. Margie is certainly one of its best representatives. We are very impressed by her personally. She taught our students American values such as self-respect, self-reliance self-improvement, a strong sense of duty, the willingness to give a helping hand to a neighbor and to make good things voluntarily and other good values. Her impact on our school life has been so huge that we continue doing things that she started . We have collected works of American writers, many films in English. Last year our team made of 5 and 11 forms won the city competition where we represented the U.S.A.
The purpose of this writing is to let you know that we are willing to participate in many kinds of projects and we are ready to cooperate !
With respect. The English teachers from Kyiv lyceum 157.

UNITED PLANET - USA

Making Multicultural Education Manifest
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2002 09:35:30 -0700 (PDT)
From: David Santulli david_santulli@unitedplanet.org
Dear Steve,
Thank you for your note. I would love to learn more about your projects and explore possible collaboration with you.
Thank you for posting the information about United Planet. In addition to the CAP initiative (Cultural Awareness Project), we are currently building new technology to make this program available throughout the United States. Please let me know if this program might interest you.
We will be launching another feature called the Voices of Earth community. This will have every country in the world listed, along with country maps, general country information, and a bulletin board for each country.
The bulletin board for each country will be the most exciting feature. It will allow the people of every country/culture in the world to share in their own voices about their customs/culture and for others to search by country, hear their voices and comment on their observations. We should have this launched with 7-10 days.
Thank you for your article.
Best Regards,
David Santulli
Executive Director
United Planet
199 Marlborough St, Suite 303
Boston, MA 02116
Tel: 617-247-6512
Fax: 617-247-6226

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Making Multicultural Education Manifest-
A ThinkQuest Web Design Approach

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Within the last five years, ThinkQuest has provided John F. Kennedy High School students with opportunities to connect internationally with multi-ethnic peers, explore their cultures and work in partnership teams on specific history, art and social issues. Among these are: The Why is the Mona Lisa Smiling project allowed my students to work with peers in Borlange Sweden to produce a critical thinking resource which utilizes tools, methods and strategies. http://library.thinkquest.org/13681/data/davin2.shtml
Our collaboration with ArtsZone and the Miho Museum in Japan gave my students the opportunity to investigate museum design as function. http://library.thinkquest.org/13681/data/museum/trees.htm
The Mona Lisa website team identified and tracked artic explorers Ann Bancroft Liv Arnessen as 21st Century heros and were invited to attend their New York City Press Conference. http://wave.prohosting.com/artpower/links/anartica.htm
Partnerships with Estonia yielded ArtiFAQ 2100 art history module and translations of Student Factory science modules into Spanish. http://library.thinkquest.org/13681/data/nyc
The web served as the cyberspace communications catalyst for cross-cultural conversations with Brazilian peers and led to our latest ThinkQuest Project Curse of Tut: Fact or Myth. http://tqnyc.org/NYC00112
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