by issp | Oct 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 | Jan 25, 2015 | Africa Link, California, News
On this page: About the Maasai About Nicholas Sironka and the Friends of Sironka Dance Troupe Events Calendar for their February 2015 visit to the Monterey Bay area The Maasai are a pastoral people who live in Kenya and Tanzania, in the Great Rift Valley of East...
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, ISSP, Laura's Blog, News, Newsletter Fall 2014
Support our ISSP school-to-school program by helping to provide classroom technology to the students of Tassh Academy in Yaounde, Cameroon, West Africa, so they can connect with students here in the US. We are raising funds for the purchase of tablets for the Tassah...
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 issp | Sep 27, 2014 | Africa Link, ISSP, Laura's Blog, MIIS, News, Newsletter Fall 2014
It is no small feat to connect students in Cameroon, West Africa, with students in California, USA, to learn collaboratively online. The challenges in connecting teachers, combining curriculum—not to mention finding a good Internet connection and power source—are just...
by issp | Sep 27, 2014 | Africa Link, ISSP, Laura's Blog, News, Newsletter Fall 2014
Yaounde, Cameroon, Central Africa Although located downtown, 20 minutes away from school by car, many of the students at Tassah Academy in Yaounde, Cameroon, had never been to the Municipal Lake before. “This is my first time here,” said one student, and...
by issp | Sep 27, 2014 | California USA Teachers & Schools, ISSP, News, Newsletter Fall 2014
Teacher Feature: Meet Cathy Guiley, Valencia Elementary, Pajaro Valley Unified School District, California USA At first glance, Mrs. Guiley’s classroom at Valencia Elementary School seems like your typical classroom, but once inside you feel transported to...
by Laura Preston | Jul 17, 2014 | ISSP
I started interning for the International School-to-School Partnerships last semester when I was introduced to the founder Jonathan Berkey by his former colleague, my French professor, Michel Gueldry. Working for ISSP has made me realize the potential a virtual...
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 11, 2014 | Africa Link, ISSP, Laura's Blog, News
Tassah’s primary school teachers say hi!These last few weeks I have had the honor of working with many of the great teachers here at Tassah Academy. Despite the end of the school year, which always comes with many festivities and hectic work to be done, these...
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:...
by issp | Jun 1, 2014 | Africa Link, Education, ISSP, News
On Thursday May 29, ISSP Board President Jonathan Berkey and Aptos Junior High School science teacher Ted Altenberg held a Skype session with several teachers and the Director of the Tassah Academy School, in Messamendongo Yaounde, Cameroon Africa. They discussed...
by Laura Preston | May 27, 2014 | Africa Link, Education, Gender Equity, ISSP, Laura's Blog, News
This last weekend was spent in the lovely highlands of Cameroon, where Janet was born and raised. We had a lovely visit to her family, which was celebrating the birth of her niece. Traditionally in Cameroon, when a child is born the women of the family come to visit,...
