Professional Learning Communities
May 24, 2011 We have the privilege of hosting in Haiti Anette Little and Sally Barton-Arwood. Both are professors at Belmont University with doctorates in education. Yesterday, they did a seminar with leadership of our partner schools in Leogane area on developing Professional Learning Communities (PLC). Sally and Anette did an excellent job. Their training […]
Partnering with Grameen Creative Lab
April 22, 2011 All of us at Haiti Partners are excited about a new partnership with Grameen Creative Lab in Haiti. While social business to advance quality education has been a priority for us since our conception, we acknowledge that we need more expertise and accompaniment. The professionally done film we did, “Solisyon Natif Natal” […]
Alternative Math Training A Great Success!
March 19, 2011 Yesterday marked the last day of a week-long training Haiti Partners held on alternative mathematics. The approach – developed by Caleb Gattengo (1911-1988) – was presented by Dr. Arthur Powell and interpreted by long-time associate, Esaie Pierre, both with ELAT – Elevating Learning Above Teaching. The Gattegno approach to math uses manipulatives […]
Pre-School Teacher Training
March 9, 2011 We’re in second day of three days of teacher training for more than 60 pre-school educators. Leslie Falconer of Mother Goose Time and Fequiere Vilsaint of Educavision of doing a fabulous job! In addition to have pre-school teachers present from all of our partner schools, there are also representatives from a number […]
New Cite Soleil Community School Website!
February 3, 2011 A giant congratulations to school director Guy Morelus, volunteers Sara and Scott Ko along with Julie Johnson and Judy Bork and others involved in creating the new website for Cite Soleil Community School, which is one of Haiti Partners’ partner schools. This website is beautiful and so well thought out. I’ve (John […]
Clean Water at Cite Soleil Community School!
November 13, 2010 We couldn’t be more grateful to Fountains of Hope and Lisa McFadin of Helping Hands for a Sustainable Haiti. Nearly 500 buckets of purified water were distributed to members of community this past Wednesday immediately after filtration system was installed. In addition to this purification system providing clean drinking water to the […]
New XO Laptop Pilots
November 11, 2010 Thanks to a donation of more XO laptops from OLPC and to our ongoing partnership with Waveplace, more than 100 children are going to learn skills that help them better use their minds.
Dawn Richard Visits Cite Soleil
August 31, 2010 It was a great honor visiting Cite Soleil with Dawn Richard today. After walking around the Boston neighborhood learning from Guy Morelus, who grew up there, she then spent time at CSCS (Cite Soleil Community School). Guy is director of CSCS, which is a partner school of Haiti Partners. Dawn’s visit was […]
Sara Ko Helps CSCS and Meets Dawn Richard
August 31, 2010 Sara, a giant thank you to you for all that you’ve done to help students and teachers at Cite Soleil Community School to learn more and to grow in love. You’re contribution has been incredible. I (John Engle) look forward to staying in touch with you to see how we can work […]
Visioning and Strategizing With Partners
August 7, 2010 This past Wednesday we convened school principals, assistants and teacher representatives from our seven partner schools. These are 4 schools outside of Leogane (earthquake epicenter), one in Cite Soleil, one on Island of La Gonave, and one in mountains south of Port-au-Prince. The visioning, strategizing and prioritizing, not to mention fellowship, energized […]