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Teacher Exchange // Florence is back
May 20, 2013 by Bethany Williams
The brightly painted walls of the classroom are showing signs of wear: paint chipped, smudges from the hundreds of sweaty hands and the dry season that whips storms of red dust up from the roads to coat trees, grass and buildings. Rows of wooden benches seat high school students, dressed smartly in their matching uniforms. [...] Read More
Teacher Exchange // outside the classroom
February 7, 2013 by Invisible Children
In the midst of tackling hours & hours of teaching in U.S. classrooms, the Ugandans in our Teacher Exchange Program (TEX) have taken some time to tackle the outside world too. Their individual adventures have allowed them to experience the American culture, food, and weather outside of the classroom (and safe to say, outside of their [...] Read More
Capturing dreams // a photo blog
January 16, 2013 by Krista Morgan
We’re happy to introduce a guest contributor to our blog today – Beth Kruziki, owner of Meomore, a design and photography business in Eugene, Oregon. I am a teacher. I am also an artist – teaching art and collaborating with secondary students is utterly satisfying. But perhaps most importantly, I am a mother. I nurture, [...] Read More
Ready, set, teach
January 14, 2013 by Invisible Children
On December 28th, 2012, American and Ugandan teachers flew in from all over the globe for an orientation to Invisible Children’s Teacher Exchange Program (TEX). TEX, which began in the summer of 2007, is a program that allows Ugandan and international educators to form teaching partnerships while exposing their students to a world outside their [...] Read More
Uganda: Photo Friday
December 21, 2012 by Bethany Williams
Coming this Christmas: The Teacher Reciprocal Exchange! Six teachers from northern Uganda will be coming to teach in classrooms across the U.S. this December and January. They are assigned a partner teacher and will be able to learn new skills and techniques in the classroom as well as share their own teaching styles and culture [...] Read More
Schools for Schools: year in review
December 7, 2012 by Bethany Williams
The year has been a full one for the Schools for Schools (S4S) team, between hardware projects (the construction of buildings) and software projects (trainings and capacity building). These are some of the highlights from the year: Computer literacy can be low in northern Uganda, even among teachers who are responsible for preparing students to [...] Read More
Teacher Exchange: Meet Jackie
October 25, 2012 by Bethany Williams
Adong Jacqueline, or Jackie, is currently a teacher at Gulu Senior Secondary school. She has been teaching for the past 12 years, mostly in Kampala, but also for a brief time at an international school in Khartum. “I love traveling because you meet people, see new places, and get to learn new things,” she says. [...] Read More
Teacher Exchange: meet Alice
October 12, 2012 by Bethany Williams
[The Teacher Exchange is a program that allows Ugandan and international educators to form teaching partnerships while exposing their students to a world outside their borders. International educators team-teach in northern Uganda each summer for six weeks, and, in a reciprocal exchange, Ugandan educators visit the schools of the international educators each winter. Learn more [...] Read More
Teacher Exchange: Summer scrapbook
August 8, 2012 by Bethany Williams
It was a summer to remember. Whether they were teaching math at Gulu High, or Home Economics at Sacred Heart, the Teacher Exchange (TeX) participants had the unique opportunity to both teach and learn in a cross-cultural environment. Teachers from the US and Canada spent 6 weeks in Uganda, paired with Ugandan teachers at Invisible [...] Read More
Teacher Exchange: Planting seeds
August 3, 2012 by Bethany Williams
Meagan Roberge normally teaches at Argyle Secondary school in North Vancouver, Canada, but this summer she is teaching under Invisible Children’s Teacher Exchange (TEX) Program at Sacred Heart school in Gulu, Uganda. She had the chance to share moments of creativity as she taught students a process where water bottles are recycled for planting. The [...] Read More
