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In the News (Fri 1 Jan 10)

  
  Northwest Indiana News: nwitimes.com
Sister Zielinski is retiring from her position of principal of the school at the end of the school year.
Sister Virginia Zielinski, who serves as principal at St. Andrew the Apostle School, is retiring from her post at the end of the school year.
The sister said preparing for the closure of the school means removing all signs and symbols of St. Andrew's and of the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth.
www.thetimesonline.com /articles/2004/04/27/news/local_illinois/b63d63c304c5998a86256e820070f3f0.txt   (1244 words)

  
 NLCP Sister School Program
The NLCP Sister School Program was established in 1988 by Delia and Mark Owens to educate Zambian schoolchildren living near the North Luangwa National Park about the need to conserve their natural resources.
School Supplies: Paper (lined, plain white or construction--scraps of construction paper left over from your school projects are a wonderful craft material for the Zambian students).
Some donations can be for the school as a whole, such as books, science kits or sports equipment, while others, such as new toothbrushes, should be given to each schoolchild.
www.owens-foundation.org /docs/sister2.htm   (1056 words)

  
 Royal Gazette   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Sister Judith, who has been with the school for 35 years and principal for 25 of those, taught chemistry and physics, adding that teaching was something she loved “with a passion”.
Sister Judith said owing to the history the Sisters of Charity have in Bermuda, during a visit earlier this year their Superior General had agreed that the two nuns could remain on the Island for as long as they were physically able to minister.
Sister Judith said the nursery school would have to close due to the financial strain that was being placed on it by Government’s new regulations.
www.theroyalgazette.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050616/NEWS/106160046   (914 words)

  
 CEC Home Page
The Cloud Forest School, locally known as the Centro de Educación Creativa, is a bilingual K through 11 school located in Monteverde, Costa Rica.
The school was founded in 1991 to increase educational opportunities for a growing population of school-age children in the area.
This independent school offers creative, experiential education to 220 students with an emphasis on integrating environmental education into all aspects of the school.
www.cloudforestschool.org   (67 words)

  
 St. Scholastica Monastery - News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Sister Helen grew up in a family of five children; she is the fourth, and her twin is the third.
Sister Mary Henry described the interior as it was when the first group of Sisters moved in in the summer of 1942, and Sister Almira could vouch for its appearance in 1978 when the last group of Sisters moved out.
Sister Paracleta said that her transition to the United States was not as difficult as it was to Italy since her community has a mission in Lincoln, Nebraska.
www.duluthbenedictines.org /news_articles_Advent_04.cfm   (2040 words)

  
 MSDE-TitleI Partner School
Schools, businesses, and university partners along with input from the R3CC spawned a collaborative partnership that was successful in receiving a state Goals 2000 grant to launch Maryland's school-mentoring program.
For the initial BR pairings, ten Title I sister schools were selected on a demonstrated desire to improve and willingness to commit staff resources and time.
Schools and school staff from different districts are more likely to objectively share information about issues they confront or roadblocks the system creates because it is no longer personal.
www.msde.state.md.us /titleI/news/schools_helping_schools.htm   (1088 words)

  
 Brandontimes: Brandon: Catholic school mourns loss of quiet strength
Sister Irene St. Jean, the longtime principal of Nativity Catholic School, succumbs to cancer.
In a school with 730 students, she had a knack for knowing students' names and sometimes even picking out those whose parents had been students at the school.
Sister Irene's burial was scheduled for Thursday at St. Augustine Cemetery in her hometown of Manchester, N.H. She is survived by two nieces, Donna Brown and Linda Royer; and a great-niece and a great-nephew.
www.sptimes.com /2004/11/12/Brandontimes/Brandon__Catholic_sch.shtml   (640 words)

  
 Project Harmony: Media about PH: Sister Schools for Building International Relations for Children
Sister school programs are international school pairings or partnerships that offer students a global perspective.
American schools may be paired with a magnet school with a specific focus, such as English or French language, music, gymnastics, skiing, or art.
The biggest drawback to a sister school relationship is the high cost, coupled with the difficulty of raising funds over an extended period.
www.projectharmony.org /cgi-bin/pubs/press/show.pl?index=699429600   (1815 words)

  
 CatholicWeb.com Catholic Web Church Parish Diocese Software Email News Site Directory
In fact, the St. Philip Neri sister took on the job of principal back in 1986 precisely because the school, tucked into a residential neighborhood a block south of State Road 84 and just east of I-95, was in danger of closing.
Sister Gomez calculates that, averaging 30 students a year for 36 years, she has touched the lives of more than 1,080 children.
Sister Gomez recently began marketing the school to Broward’s western residents, stressing its ideal location along the I-595 corridor that joins the suburbs to the downtown business district.
www.catholicweb.com /media_index.cfm?fuseaction=view_article&partnerid=32&article_id=983   (1517 words)

  
 Sister Rosemary Retires   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Cathy Green, school secretary for the past eight years and a former Parent/Teacher Organization president, Donna T. Waters, a teacher at St. Mary for 28 years, and Jean F. Cook, a 20-year teacher and assistant principal at the Catholic school, all stated that they expect to miss Sister Rosemary profoundly.
Sister Rosemary Boyd professed her final vows as a Sister of Charity in 1957; she was a teacher at Sacred Heart School in Charleston for four years by then, with a baccalaureate degree and a masters from Seton Hall University.
Sister Rosemary has had such an impact on St. Mary Help of Christians School over her two-decade tenure that a campus building, Boyd Hall, is named after her.
www.catholic-doc.org /0597sister.html   (574 words)

  
 Sister Cities International   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Sister Cities International is pleased to announce the winners of this year's Annual Awards Program, recognizing outstanding sister city programs and projects for 2002.
For 2002, the primary goals of SSCA were to bring all of its sister cities together, not only with the Sarasota community, but also with each other and to involve as many people and community institutions as possible.
The official joining of Sarasota with its newest sister city, Dunfermline, Scotland was set for 2002, which was also the year Sarasota began its year-long centennial celebrations, marking its 100th year as a city.
www.sister-cities.org /sci/sciprograms/projectsin2002   (4456 words)

  
 North Shore to Natchez, Teaching in God's Light
The Holy Family School of Natchez, Miss., which serves some of the poorest families in one of the poorest areas of the country, was already in tough financial shape when it was ravaged by fire Feb. 10.
Sister Marie is spending the current academic year at Boston College, pursuing a master's degree in the Catholic School Leadership Program at the Lynch School.
The school is seen providing a valuable grounding in both morals and academics, and its graduates have become valedictorians and civic leaders.
www.bc.edu /bc_org/rvp/pubaf/chronicle/v10/n29/santry.html   (712 words)

  
 Excelsior Education Center - Buena Vista
The elementary school is a small 4 - classroom school in need of supplies and most urgently, air conditioning units for the classrooms.
In addition to helping our sister school, we are also exploring the possibility of an exchange program.
Over the past two years, several students and staff have visited our sister school on a frequent basis, keeping a continued working relationship with the students and staff there.
www.excelsior.com /abouteec/sister_school   (204 words)

  
 George School | April 22, 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Described by George School religion teacher Carolyn Lyday as "a consummately professional educator with a global vision and a spiritual vision of education," Rafaela will speak briefly about the relationship between the two schools at an all-school assembly on Friday, April 29, at 9:50 a.m.
George School junior and Langhorne resident Lauren Neal, a member of the 2005 service trip, said, "The most influential part of my trip was getting to stay with a Nicaraguan family." Seeing firsthand the poverty, as well as the "rich tradition and love" in which her host family lived, she said, was a powerful experience.
George School students and faculty have long wished that a group from the Nicaraguan school could visit their campus, but financial obstacles have stood in the way.
www.georgeschool.org /explore.asp?content=268   (965 words)

  
 A Beloved Nun Is Retiring, but Nobody Calls Her Shy - New York Times
Sister Eileen, who will turn 82 at the end of the month, is a beloved figure at Cathedral, a Roman Catholic girls' school on 56th Street at First Avenue.
The principal of the school, Sister Elizabeth Graham, said: "She is education from head to toe.
Sister Eileen came to the school in 1963 as head of the foreign language department and as a Spanish teacher.
www.nytimes.com /2005/06/19/nyregion/19sister.html?ex=1276833600&en=27a9b763f33e2e17&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss   (1003 words)

  
 Notre Dame Prep : History
The School Sisters of Notre Dame opened the Notre Dame of Maryland Collegiate Institute for Young Ladies on September 21, 1873 with 63 pupils.
The sisters began to admit them, it is believed, at the urging of Cardinal Gibbons for the convenience of some Baltimore families.
Sister Helen Marie made several key changes, including adding development and public relations professionals to the school's staff, implementing the 1982 decision to phase out the lower school, and seeing the school through incorporation and establishment of the Board of Trustees.
www.notredameprep.com /about/about_hist.cfm   (1685 words)

  
 School helps expecting student mothers make the grade   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
SCHOOL SISTER of Notre Dame Rose Elaine Kessler, principal of St. Gerard Majella School, and counselor Tucky Argus look at photos of babies born to girls attending the alternative school, whose mission is to help pregnant students prepare for childbirth while remaining in the Catholic school system.
Sister Rose Elaine has a full-time counselor, Tucky Argus, and three teachers, Joe Barone, Reggie Zeringue and Barbara Drury, who "volunteer at $15 an hour." They will get a syllabus and even assignments from the girls' schools and work with each student.
Sister Rose Elaine's expansive bulletin board is splashed with color pictures of her former students and their babies.
clarionherald.org /20040225/art005.htm   (958 words)

  
 Sister Schools -- Escuelas Hermanas
These schools were chosen because of their appreciable Hispanic enrollment and their interest in using educational gardens on their school property.
Dr. Lippert assessed the progress of the schools and spoke with teachers and administrators to further clarify the sister school exchange.
The three teachers spent time in their sister school in order to become familiar with the resources, teachers and students.
www.clemson.edu /sisterschools/history.html   (609 words)

  
 Sister Cities International   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Sister Cities International is pleased to be one of the nine founding groups that joined with leaders of other non-governmental and private organizations on October 25, 2001, at Thurgood Marshall Elementary School in Washington, DC.
To provide small grants to five local sister city organizations with partners in predominantly Islamic countries to bring at least two students and one teacher to the U.S. for the purpose of establishing and enhancing connections between schools and communities.
In a slightly different project, Sister Schools of San Diego created partnerships between U.S. schools and schools in Afghanistan and made a documentary film of the teachers involved in sister school exchanges.
www.sister-cities.org /www/sci/sciprograms/other/FriendshipThruEducation   (1122 words)

  
 Case Allemande - The AISN Sister School
The community school was started because children from this community were having difficulty successfully entering the local government schools.
AISN classes work in the school garden and proceeds of produce sales are contributed to the school.
Even though the parents are required to pay a small fee to support the school, the greatest challenge is making the monthly payroll for the dedicated teachers who work at the school.
www.geocities.com /asniamey/caseallemande.html   (283 words)

  
 Prosser High adopts sister school in N.Y.
PROSSER -- Prosser High School seniors will brighten the new year for counterparts at a high school in Brooklyn, N.Y. They have packed a cardboard box full of Prosser fare -- Chukar cherries, a Prosser Mustangs sweatshirt and hat, and a game ball signed by the Mustang basketball players.
The Class of 2002 adopted Cobble Hill as its sister school after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11.
They got the rest of the school involved by starting a contest, challenging each class to build the longest paper chain for homecoming decorations.
www.tri-cityherald.com /news/2001/1223/story5.html   (500 words)

  
 CNN.com - U.S. 'sister school' awaits news from Germany - April 26, 2002
On Friday, school violence hit closer to home emotionally, if not geographically: Bowling Green Senior High has an exchange program with the Gutenberg Gymnasium School in Erfurt, Germany, where 18 people were shot to death Friday.
Bowling Green is about 150 (240 kilometers) from Paducah, where a 14-year-old entered a school and shot three girls to death in 1997.
School officials hadn't decided yet how they would reach out to their companion school in Germany.
archives.cnn.com /2002/US/04/26/erfurt.kentucky   (441 words)

  
 The Morant Bay International Sister Schools Initiative (Jamaica)
Each school in the city of Hartford is under a mandate to create Magnet Schools, in a response to a legal settlement of a suit to desegregate Hartford’s schools.
One piece of this Multicultural Theme was to establish Sister Schools Partnerships on an international basis, as well as in the United States.
She also got a class of students to pose, as pictures were sent back, as a welcome gesture to the new Sister Schools partnership that was underway.
www.jamaicans.com /news/announcements/morantbschools.shtml   (1409 words)

  
 HSCV Sister School Program
During the school year of 2002-2003 students in Prior Lake schools held a variety of fund raisers for the Lai Yen school.
Although school was out for the summer the school had a ceremony where the gifts were presented to some of the children.
HSCV is actively looking for additional schools and organizations interested in joining the Sister School Program and sponsoring a school in Vietnam.
www.hscv.org /sisterschools.htm   (661 words)

  
 Winsor School | News-Afghan Sister School   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Winsor was paired with the Zarghona School in Kandahar earlier this fall through the Sister Schools Project, a pilot program of Afghans for Civil Society.
The nonprofit project is designed to help rebuild Afghan schools and encourage women teachers to resume their role in education.
She explained that the one-time girls’ school has now become coeducational, taking in boys when a nearby school shut its doors.
www.winsor.edu /pages/sitepage.cfm?id=438   (369 words)

  
 Sister School Program
In 1996, TCC and San Hsin High School officially became "Sister Schools" with the official documents signed at TCC on February 2, 1996.
San Hsin High School is large, housing up to 8,000 students during the normal school year.
In addition, the school arranges week-end trips for the instructors and pays for admission to all tourist attractions visited on weekends.
www.tcc.fl.edu /dept/hss/specialprgrms/sister   (822 words)

  
 Yayasan Kemanusiaan Ibu Pertiwi (YKIP) - Projects
We would like to start a sister school program, whereby a school in your neighborhood would sponsor all the children at one particular school (and this could range from one child to say, ten).
The children in your school could send over photographs, drawings, poetry, stories that they have done to be shared with the children in the Balinese school.
If, in the future, any of the students in the Sister School Program would like to come to Bali, we could easily arrange for meetings with the sponsored school children to take place-either home/school visits could be made or an outing to the beach or a park.
www.ykip.org /sischool.asp   (283 words)

  
 Historia: Escuela Madres Escolapias (English)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
During her stay, she was visited by Father Modesto Roca, Dean of Catholic schools in Cárdenas, who convinced her to establish a secondary education school for girls in that city, as a sister school to the one for boys run by the Escolapios Priests in the city.
She agreed to finance the founding of the school with only one condition, that the school be named "Maria Encarnación", after herself and her granddaughter.
On March 4, 1961 "intervention" of the school is threatenned by the new regime, and on May 3rd at 3:00 p.m.
www.delafe.com /cardenas/escohise.htm   (577 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
You are challenged with the responsibility of locating a school in a Spanish-speaking country for the purpose of establishing an international "sister school" bond between that school and your own.
Select one school as the proposed "sister school" for your campus.
This Research Module may be used by teachers and school districts for students, but may not be whacked or republished on any Web site or in any other electronic format without express permission.
www.gpisd.org /gpisd/modules/sister_schools/default   (363 words)

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