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World Wise Schools' monthly e-newsletter, the World Wise Window, highlights educational materials based on the Peace Corps Volunteer experience. Sign up now!

Hot Off the Press: Spotlight on Spotlight on Speakers Match & Correspondence Match

Kindergartners locate Burkina Faso on a map and send questions via instant message to a Peace Corps Volunteer living there. High school students raise money to provide computers for a classroom in El Salvador. ESOL students interact with a returned Volunteer and share stories of adapting to a new language and culture. These are just a few of the exciting educational experiences made possible by Coverdell World Wise Schools’ Correspondence Match and Speakers Match programs!

To bring Peace Corps Volunteers’ stories to U.S. teachers and students, Correspondence Match connects classrooms with Volunteers serving overseas, while Speakers Match brings returned Peace Corps Volunteers into schools across the country.

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The World Wise Window focuses on a new topic each month, bringing educators stories with lesson plans from post-Tsunami Sri Lanka and Jordan to China and New Orleans. The Window examines global issues and cross-cultural understanding through folk tales, videos, slide shows, photos, and Volunteer-written narratives that come from a Peace Corps Volunteer's unique perspective on daily life in countries around the world.

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