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Bookmaking Class Reflection

Posted on September 17th, 2009 in Integrative Rural Education Program, Libraries and Reading, Media, Personal Impact, Programs, Quality Education, RCEF, Teaching.

Developing and teaching a bookmaking class at Guan Ai School this past summer was an incredibly rewarding
experience for me. I love teaching and took advantage of the summer vacation to develop a ten day activity class at the school. Though I developed the curriculum, most important to the class was my partnership with two local [...]

What About Rural China?

Posted on December 9th, 2008 in RCEF.

In the next twenty years China will:

Add 350 million people to its urban centers
Build an estimated 50,000 skyscrapers and other massive public works projects
Hit peak coal production

Pretty amazing huh?
A collection of some of the brightest minds and leaders in urban development, green technologies and business came together at the recent JUCCCE China Energy Forum to [...]

太阳光照生命最温暖

Posted on June 14th, 2008 in Personal Impact.

A week ago I arrived back in Beijing after a too-short trip to the Guan Ai school. It was my first chance to visit one of the schools that RCEF is partnered with. The warmheartedness of the teachers and volunteers that I meet there stays with me just as the sound of dozens of small [...]