Legos Project
The goals of the Lego Project are to encourage young people to “build a new Haiti” through the use of Legos. It encourages children to combine their imagination with problem solving skills. The children involved in Deschapelles are at least 10 years old and either attend school or, if they are unable, are members of […]
International Book Buddies Project
The International Book Buddy Project, proposed by a Middletown, Connecticut middle school teacher in the fall of 2013, is a new program that pairs “reluctant” readers and writers at a middle school in Middletown with similar aged children in Deschapelles Haiti. The overall concept is that children from each country read the same book in their […]
Cross Cultural Exchange: Update: Summer 2015
What is life like for children in Essex CT? And what is life like for children in Deschapelles Haiti? How can children learn from each other about their similarities and differences? It was important to have given the directors of the schools the experience in using the tablets to video. They understood the purpose of […]
Cross Cultural Exchange
Sixth graders in Essex Elementary School initiated a cross cultural exchange between their classes and sixth graders in schools in Deschapelles using tablets with video capabilities which were funded by the Essex Elementary School Foundation. The original concept was to have individual students in Essex create relationships with individual students in Deschapelles. That worked fine […]
Teacher Training Update: March 2014
Using newly donated books and a manipulatives workshop was held in March 2014 with 22 children and more than 30 pre-school teachers who had attended the second workshop in August 2013. Because some of the pre-school teachers did not seem as comfortable using the manipulatives and reading to children in the classroom as others, the […]