Teachers from Balkans visit Catholic high school in Virginia

Published: 2005-01-31

FAIRFAX, Va. (CNS) -- Five guest teachers spent three weeks in January at Paul VI Catholic High School in Fairfax, but the teachers were hoping to learn as much from the staff and students as the students would learn from them. The five teachers came from the Balkans -- Margareti Mara from Albania, Bedri Hajrizi from Kosovo, Drasko Vucemilovic from Croatia, Selma Suman from Bosnia-Herzegovina and Natasa Stanojevic from Montenegro. They came to Paul VI through the School Connectivity Project, supported by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and Catholic Relief Services, the U.S. bishops' overseas relief and development agency. The project links 91 schools in 10 counties that communicate on the Internet through the project's secure online discussion forum and personal Web sites that are designed in one stage of the program. Students and teachers work independently and in groups to discuss internationally who they are and how they can relate to each other by exploring projects involving culture, identity, arts, technology, history and environment.

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