by issp | Sep 28, 2016 | Africa Link, Education, Gender Equity, ISSP, Partners
The A. Richard Newton Educator ABIE Award recognizes educators who develop innovative teaching practices and approaches that attract girls and women to computing, engineering and math. This year’s winner, Bih Janet Shufor Fofang, is from Cameroon and has been teaching...
by issp | Nov 8, 2014 | California, Education, ISSP, News
Support ISSP through Monterey County Gives! The International School-to-School Partnerships (ISSP) has been selected as one of the non-profits supported in the Monterey County Gives! campaign for November and December, 2014. ISSP is working to help teachers and...
by issp | Oct 11, 2014 | Africa Link, Education, ISSP, News, Newsletter Fall 2014, Technology
In July of this year, Symantec Corporation, based in the heart of Silicon Valley in Mountain View, California, donated 20 Dell servers to support ISSP‘s international school-to-school partnerships program, linking schools around the globe via the Internet to schools...
by Laura Preston | Jul 6, 2014 | Education, ISSP, Laura's Blog, News, Technology
It was a bittersweet celebration at the end of June, commemorating the end of ISSP’s month long visit to Tassah Academy in Cameroon. After one month, a significant amount of effort and work created the beginnings of the pilot program, which will start this fall....
by Laura Preston | Jun 20, 2014 | Education, ISSP, Laura's Blog, News, Power Africa Schools, Technology
EISERVI, (Education Information Services International, www.eiservi.org) a local nonprofit in Yaounde focused on literacy and youth empowerment, has agreed to join forces with Tassah Academy and ISSP to make our pilot program a success. After a 2 hour meeting...
by Laura Preston | Jun 5, 2014 | Africa Link, Education, ISSP, Laura's Blog, News
Tassah Academy, Yaounde, Cameroon This week we tried an interesting experiment: can an American and a Cameroonian co-teach a class about science, using technology? It may sound intriguing to many of you, especially to those who have visited a classroom abroad before:...
