Blog Updates and inspiration

As one of our 11 partner schools in northern Uganda, Keyo Secondary School holds a special place in our hearts. As does Keyo’s former head teacher, Ongiya Calistus Nyeko. Calistus, who also participated in Invisible Children’s Reciprocal Teacher Exchange (TrEx), was recently transferred to another school. Calistus joined Keyo in 1999 and was promoted to head […]

The following was written by Mercy Southam, Invisible Children’s Uganda Programs Coordinator. While she primarily works out of our San Diego Headquarters, she is currently working in our Gulu, Uganda office while doing research and gathering information for our Teacher Exchange Program. Since 2007, Invisible Children has hosted the Teacher Exchange Program (TEX)  – a cross-cultural […]

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. […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

[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 […]