Reblog // Post Civil Conflict: Rebuilding Education in Northern Uganda
Invisible Children’s Teacher Exchange Program (TEX) was recently featured on GoAbroad.com. The below guest post was written by Catherine Hanna, the Program Facilitator of TEX, and discusses how TEX began as a professional development opportunity both for Ugandan and North American teachers, and is now helping to rebuild education in northern Uganda. Applications for the 2014 […]
Florence // to know her is to love her
A couple of months ago I wrote a series of blogs about Invisible Children’s Teacher Exchange program. Ugandan educators were spending six weeks in the U.S. team-teaching in American classrooms and we were publishing their insights on experiences inside and outside the classroom. In sifting through their journal entries and photos, I felt a kindred connection […]
Teacher Exchange // inside the classroom
The Ugandan teachers participating in our Teacher Exchange Program (TEX) have officially started their team-teaching. Six weeks, six teachers, six schools, six amazingly different experiences. We have been following two teachers in particular, Florence and Samuel, and have picked their brains on their experience thus far and tracked their movements in pictures. Fall in love […]
Teacher Exchange: Rosemary’s journey
“A good teacher is like a candle – it consumes itself to light the way for others.” – Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Teacher Exchange Program: The Ugandan teachers have arrived in the U.S.
The Ugandan teachers are spending 4 weeks with their American counterparts in cities across the U.S. But first the Ugandan and American teachers had a whirlwind orientation in New York City.