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| East-West community members, students, teachers, and administration welcome our visitors from Hangzhou No. 14. From Chinese sister school |
On April 14th, East-West welcomed delegates from Hangzhou No. 14 Middle School to solidify our new relationship as sister schools. Our guests visited classrooms to learn about our teaching methods and met with students and staff.
We held a press conference to announce our partnership and answer questions from the community about our new roles, the benefits to our schools, and our educational philosophies. Members of our Community Advisory Board were present, as well as local and national media.
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| From left to right: Alfred Rankins, Linna Yu, Pauline Chu, Shirley Bryant, Margie Chen (Duo Wei Times), Zhen Ping Dai (Sino Television), Susan Yu (The China Press). Not shown: Dorothy Woo, Connor Streets (Flushing Times), Felicia Guo (World Journal). From Chinese sister school |
Teachers from both schools are encouraged to form collaborative projects and have their students work together. We look forward to seeing how we can learn from each other. Here are examples of how they have collaborated with sister schools abroad in the past.
Profile from the Zhejiang Foreign Experts Affairs office:
Hangzhou No. 14 Middle School established in 1904 and is recognized as a first-grade provincial key middle school in 1996, is one of the most historically famous middle schools in Zhejiang Province.
As a key foreign-related unit, the school is globally oriented and has strengthened international exchanges in cooperation. It has successfully established the widespread relations with Britain, USA, France, Australia, Japan, and others.
Visit their school website to learn more!
Excerpt from the Flushing Times:
East met West at the East-West School of International Studies in Flushing Tuesday afternoon.
The occasion that brought the two hemispheres together was the arrival of a principal and social studies teacher from the institution’s new sister school, Hangzhou No. 14 Middle School in Zhejiang, China.
The representatives met with East-West Principal Ben Sherman, faculty members and Chinese language students in order to exchange ideas about teaching and learning as well as to get a feel for one another’s cultures...
“We are preparing students for a world in which Asia is growing in importance,” Sherman said. “To our guests from the Hangzhou school, we are looking to build this relationship so that principal to principal, teacher to teacher and student to student we can learn from each other .... This kind of cross-cultural pollination, like the coming of spring, helps to re-energize our schools.”
Click here to read more.
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| The principals from both schools wrote “East” and “West” in Chinese characters to commemorate the event. The banner is displayed in the principal’s office. From Chinese sister school |
Visit the album for the event to see more photos.
Comments
Yanni Wang (not verified) - March 14, 2012 - 1:53pm
My friend in QingDao China owned a international school(k-12) ,he is planning to have a sister school in ny , I'm wondering if you are intrested in setting up another one in China except Hangzhou.I have the details of his school if you need to know better.