Archive for the Personal Impact category

An Uncommon School

RCEF’s rural teacher training was held at the Desheng Common Peoples School (德胜平民学校), a rural elementary school in Xiuning County, Anhui Province. When picking the location for the training, we looked for an innovative school that could be a source of inspiration and new ideas. Desheng is quite well known for its interesting model and [...]

Thoughts on visit to Guan Ai

中文翻译在英文后面。Yishin Khoo is the director of Research and Evaluation Committee in RCEF. In this post she shares her observations and thoughts after her visit to Guan Ai School in June.
After returning home from Guan Ai, I decided to revisit what REC can do to support the Integrated Rural Education Program (IREP) and refine its [...]

Graduating with Tears and Appreciation

The air in the classroom was heavy with humidity and emotion as Guan Ai Elementary School’s third class of sixth-graders graduated on July 2. Teachers cut watermelon and passed out candy as the 23 students giggled and chatted, their desks arranged in a horseshoe shape around the room. They had just finished their middle school [...]

Merrybelle’s Storybook Project: Part 3

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Merrybelle Guo, a student at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, received a grant to travel to China and create storybooks with students and teachers at RCEF’s Guan Ai Elementary School. This is the third in a series of posts about her experience. Previous posts can be found through the following links: part 1, part [...]

Merrybelle’s Storybook Project: Part 2

Merrybelle Guo, a student at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, received a grant to travel to China and create storybooks with students and teachers at RCEF’s Guan Ai Elementary School. This is the second in a series of posts about her experience. The first part can be found here.

I suppose I should begin this [...]

太阳光照生命最温暖

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 [...]

Merrybelle’s Storybook Project: Part 1

Merrybelle Guo just finished her junior year at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She received a grant to travel to China and create storybooks with students and teachers at RCEF’s Guan Ai Elementary School. This is the first of a series of posts about her experience. The children love her and she’s [...]

Earthquake Aftermath

中文翻译在英文后面。
The earthquake was so strong yesterday we even felt tremors in Shanxi Province at Guan Ai School. At about 2 in the afternoon, Jiang Peng and I were sitting in the library on a long wooden bench. When it started shaking, we kept thinking the other person was rocking the bench. Then we saw the [...]