Spotlight on Community Service in KnowledgeLink Programs

At our recent program at The Calverton School one of the most meaningful and exciting aspects of the trip was a community service event where the visiting students volunteered with a service organization, Food Link, which is dedicated to fighting hunger in underserved communities. Doing community service underscores the powerful idea that when students visit a school they do not just participate in the academic life of the school but truly become members of the community. (more…)

KnowledgeLink Held College Head Start Program

This past January, 18 students made the trek from the Guangdong Province in China to the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts to attend KnowledgeLink’s College Head Start Program. The College Head Start program aims to give students an opportunity to learn how to best approach the admissions process of US colleges and how to succeed in college once they are accepted. (more…)

Celebrating the Winter Holidays American Style

This past winter break, 8 international students currently enrolled at U.S. high schools traveled as far as 3,000 miles to celebrate the holidays and New Year with a host family as part of the KL Holiday Homestay Programs. From watching fireworks on a boat in Los Angeles to seeing the Miami ballet preform the nutcracker (more…)

Students Celebrate Halloween across Partnership Schools

■ St Mary’s Jinhua (Shanghai)
The Annual Jinhua Halloween Party Night has returned! Classrooms transformed into several Haunted Houses with spider nets and ghosts designed by students themselves. Everybody dressed up and stepped onto the temporarily-setup dance floor in the community room. There were princesses, animals, monsters, celebrities and PSY! (more…)

St. Mary’s Holds Teacher Training Conference in Shanghai

As high school campuses across the U.S. opened their doors for the start of a new school year, an eager group of American teachers convened to design a strategy for teaching an American curriculum to students in China. (more…)

KnowledgeLink ESL Camp: “An Unforgettable Experience”

Language learning expert Greg Thomson once implored learners: “Don’t learn the language! Rather, relearn the world, as it is known and shared by the people whose language you are learning.” Indeed, language is more than just a means of communication, but a way of thinking and interpreting the world. (more…)

St. Mary’s School Announces Partnership with Wuhan No. 2 High School

By Peter Gangemi, Director of KnowledgeLink

Last month, I traveled to China to partake in the announcement of a new Partnership School collaboration. The new program, set to open in fall 2013, will leverage the joint expertise of the St. Mary’s School of Medford, Oregon and Wuhan No. 2 High School of Wuhan, China. (more…)

Chinese, US Schools Partner for Week-Long Experiential Camps in MA

Earlier this month, 44 10th-graders from the Guangdong Humen Foreign Language School in Dongguan (Guangdong Province) participated in an exciting two-week United States excursion highlighted by a week-long experiential academic camp in which students shadowed American high schoolers and lived with American host families. (more…)