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Welcome to the iEARN-USA News page, your source for the latest updates, achievements, and stories from our vibrant community of educators, students, and partners worldwide. Stay informed about our initiatives, upcoming events, and opportunities to get involved as we continue to connect and empower youth to create positive change in their communities and beyond.
A project in which student worldwide share places important to them. By reading about other students' special places, and taking action to preserve such places, we'll strengthen our commitment to preserving the earth.
This iEARN project aims to encourage students between the ages of five and eighteen to read folktales from their heritage and have them exchange these stories with others from around the world.
Here on the east coast we’ve been fortunate to have had day-after-day of searingly hot summer weather (too hot for some!) I’ve spent every possible weekend and after work moment outdoors, from active sports to quiet moments reading under a tree.
A recent summer adventure included a trip to Eastern Europe with two teacher friends. Since we were going to be only a few hours from a school we’ve worked with collaboratively in the iEARN Holiday Card Project, I arranged a visit with Maja Kovacic of the POS Socka Elementary in Slovenia, a small village school of 31 students.
iEARN-USA is pleased to support the World Summit Youth Award (WSYA), an annual celebration and network for young people to put the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) into action.
At a professional development session on iEARN which included all the specialist teachers...we hit upon our first of many brainstorms: Let’s have a school-wide assembly on hunger... Voila! We were on our way.
Zeichner, Noah, 'Global Education: Bringing the World to Your Classroom,' Education Week News, July 3, 2012.
Check out a recent video production featuring some of the pioneering teachers in the program - Shot, Edited and Produced by PJ Poloai, Marvin Bugarini and Diego Pettersson From Somewhere2turn and AYV Peapod RWC.
The 2012 Virtual iEARN Adobe Youth Voices Media Festival, June 20-22, just wrapped up! Congratulations to all the youth media makers from around the world who screened their videos at the event.
iEARN welcomes over 100 participants for the National Security Language Initiative for Youth (NSLI-Y) program, a language immersion scholarship program for high school students.
YES scholars and alumni recognized by the American Center in Bangladesh for accomplishments during their year-long exchange program in the U.S.
ng thread started in May 2011 by a student in Palestine asking his peers around the world, “How many languages do you speak?â€
iEARN hosts 6-week online course for participating educators in India and Pakistan to experience, through hands-on activities and collaborative dialogue, how to use media arts and performing arts for cross-cultural understanding and collaborative dialogue.
Educators and students at Village Charter School in Trenton, NJ gathered their school and board of directors to ask ‘why are there still so many hungry around the world and what are we going to do about it?â€
The 19th Annual iEARN International Conference and Youth Summit will be held virtually from November 12-16, 2012 in conjunction with the third annual Global Education Conference.
From May 16-18, a group of teachers in Ecuador are participating in a three-day workshop in Guayaquil for their first experience with iEARN as part of the Global Connections and Exchange High School Journalism 2.0 Program.
On April 21, 2012, NSLI-Y students in Taiwan and South Korea participated in volunteer activities as part of Global Youth Service Day.
Earlier this Spring Ed Gragert, Director Emeritus at iEARN-USA, moderated a live meeting at COSN, with iEARN educators Eliane Metni in Lebanon, Hela Nafti from Tunsia and Arwa Al-Awadi from Yemen.
iEARN Adobe Youth Voices educators in São Paulo gathered in Ibirapuera Park (the biggest park in São Paulo) and produced a video inspired by the Adobe Youth Voices theme 'Create with Purpose.'
Kuwait High School Journalism participants learn how social networks have affected the journalism field.
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