Travel Dates: Summer 2017
App Deadline: December 28, 2016
Short-term summer programs abroad for US educators in the social sciences and humanities – to Thailand and Bulgaria.
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iEARN-USA: BRIDGE Program
Program Dates: Feb – May 2017
App Deadline: December 20, 2016
Provides professional online training and curriculum-based virtual exchange activities for educators in the Middle East and North Africa and their US counterparts.
Experiment Leadership Institute Full Scholarships
Program Dates: Summer 2017
App Deadline: January 18, 2017
From EIL, two fully funded six-week programs (to India and South Africa) for rising seniors.
US Youth Ambassadors with South America
Program Dates: May 2017
App Deadline: January 13, 2017
Two fully funded three-week leadership exchanges for US teens – one to Brazil; the other to Argentina & Chile.
LearnServe Abroad
Program Dates: Summer 2017
App Deadline: January 10, 2017
Three-week service programs to Jamaica, Paraguay, and Zambia. Fee-based with scholarships.
Japanese Plus holds its first Open House
Last October 5th, twenty-three high school students from nine public schools across the city began attending Japanese classes offered through Globalize DC’s new Japanese Plus program. Six weeks later, in the Columbia Heights Education Campus library, the students found themselves in the intimidating position of presenting what they had learned to family, friends, and community partners. The challenge! Take everything they had learned so far – every phrase and even katakana characters – and create an original skit for presentation. The students worked in four groups and came up with four unique and crazy skits. The task took a lot […]
Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange and Study (YES) Abroad
Program Dates: 2017-18 School Year
App Deadline: Dec 1, 2016
Full scholarships to live and study for one academic year in countries with significant Muslim populations.
Operation Understanding DC (OUDC)
Program Dates: Jan – Dec 2017
App Deadline: Nov 28, 2016
A free year-long leadership program for black and Jewish high school juniors. Includes a 3-week summer travel program.
Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange
Program Dates: 2017-18 School Year
App Deadline: Dec 12, 2016
Offers US high school students the opportunity to live and study abroad in Germany for a full academic year. Fully funded.
Fulbright Distinguished Awards in Teaching (DAT) Program
Travel Dates: 3-6 months during the 2017-18 School Year
App Deadline: December 1, 2016
An intensive PD program for 3-6 months abroad for highly accomplished US K-12 educators.