What: BCPS Chief Academic Officer Pat Lawton will join families, teachers and friends in saying farewell to 27 students and four educators headed to China as part of the school system’s China Cultural Exchange program. The educators who will accompany the BCPS students are Spanish teacher Erin Confair and guidance counselor Alastair Palmer of Loch Raven High School, Spanish teacher Pam Flynn of Owings Mills High School and English teacher Jennifer Meehan of Towson High School. The group will return to Baltimore County on Monday, July 8.
When: Saturday, May 18, 2013, from 7:15 - 7:45 a.m.
The bus is scheduled to leave at 7:45 a.m. to take students to Dulles Airport.Where: Baltimore County Public Schools Headquarters
Educational Support Services Building
Parking lot
6901 Charles Street
Towson, Maryland 21204Background: Baltimore County Public Schools has had a China Cultural Exchange program with Tie Yi School in Xi’an, China, since the 2006–2007 school year. It is now open to students in 12 high schools in all areas of the county. Numerous past participants in the program are now in college studying Chinese language, Asian studies, international business and diplomacy. Three of the five BCPS students who were part of the first cohort in 2007 have gone back to study and/or work there.
The BCPS students leaving for China on May 18 are:
Dulaney High School
Andrew Abell
Amanda Bilger
Laura Hillard
Kalie Paranzino
Ashley Schwanebeck
Emilia Waters Hereford High School
Margaret Ebacher-Rini
Forrest Guyton
Connie Powell
Kalliopi Somis
Robert VanHuizen Kenwood High School
Michael Fox
Tearra Randall Loch Raven High School
William Jones Patapsco High School and Center for the Arts
Ty'jayh Elliott Perry Hall High School
Kevin Duong Pikesville High School
Jason Meeker
Ilona Nakshun Randallstown High School
Carl Hite
Elizabeth Owolabi
Danielle Youmbi Towson High School
John Booher
Matthew Hayden
Saryu Rajbhandari
Jennifer Yabut
Tiffany Zhang
Maki Zylstra
While in China, BCPS students will be staying with the families of Chinese students who stayed with their families earlier this spring. Two days each week, the students will take field trips. When the students are in school, they will take English classes with Chinese students. They will also take special classes in Chinese language, art, cooking, music and physical education.
The 2013 journey of BCPS’ students and teachers to China will be captured on a travel blog available to the public at http://blog.travelpod.com/members/bcpschina. Also found at the same Web address is a blog from earlier delegations.
Chinese is one of the world languages offered at five BCPS middle schools and 12 high schools: Hereford, Perry Hall, Ridgely, Windsor Mill and Woodlawn middle schools and Dulaney, Eastern Technical, Hereford, Kenwood, Loch Raven, Owings Mills, Patapsco, Perry Hall, Pikesville, Randallstown, Towson and Woodlawn high schools.
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