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April 26, 2013
 IREX is pleased to announce the recipients of the Spring 2013 TEA/ILEP Alumni Small Grants competition. IREX, in conjunction with an independent selection committee and the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State, selected 8 alumni of the Teaching Excellence and Achievement Program (TEA) and 4 alumni of the International Leaders in Education Program (ILEP) to receive funding to support their original small grant project ideas. |
April 22, 2013
 Dedicated teachers across Pakistan are striving to provide quality education for their students. Moshin Moosa is one such teacher from the rural region of Balochistan. Last summer, Moosa came to the United States for six weeks of professional development training through the Teaching Excellence and Achievement-Pakistan program. He arrived as an English teacher dedicated to his profession and returned home as something else, he said: a “teacher educator” poised to influence his school, his colleagues, and his community. |
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March 26, 2013
 Pregnancy, early marriage, school fees, risk of sexual violence? What are the barriers for girls and boys going to school? As the education community envisions post-2015 Millennium Development Goals, IREX surveyed its pool of teacher-leaders alumni around the world to get a better picture of the ways gender impacts education. What impacts girls’ participation in school the most? What particular factors affect boys? Over 200 secondary school teachers from 45 countries responded to our questions. Here are some of the findings from our snapshot survey. |
February 7, 2013
 When post-election violence broke out in Cote d'Ivoire, in April of 2010, Aka Blehou, knew that he must continue to teach, no matter the circumstances. Blehou, an English teacher, and current Teaching Excellence and Achievement (TEA) Fellow recalls: “During the conflict, the village school was closed, but I gathered the students there, and I taught them twice a week, unofficially… so when the school opened, they would not forget.” |
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October 29, 2012
 IREX is pleased to announce the recipients of the Fall 2012 TEA/ILEP Alumni Small Grants competition. IREX, in conjunction with an independent selection committee and the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State, selected 10 alumni of the Teaching Excellence and Achievement Program (TEA) and 6 alumni of the International Leaders in Education Program (ILEP) to receive funding to support their original small grant project ideas. |
October 4, 2012
 Recognizing that teachers have an enormous influence on the lives of young people at critical moments in their development, they have the opportunity to shape thoughtful, empathetic, productive adults who see themselves as citizens of a global community. In honor of that global community, IREX highlights the work of our alumni of three programs, International Leaders in Education (ILEP), Teaching Excellence and Achievement (TEA), and Teachers for Global Classrooms (TGC) through a photo essay, “Teachers in a Global Classroom.” |
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October 4, 2012
 In a brightly colored room, filled with the buzz of multilingual chatter, Hemanju Rai Thapa Magar is calm. She gently pastes a painting of traditional Nepalese women, which has traveled 7,000 miles from Nepal to Washington D.C. “These items are made by students,” Magar says, as she gently touches the colored paper “I am very excited to share with them everything I learn here.” |
September 4, 2012
 Colleagues, students and parents who know David Bosso were not surprised that he was named one of the 2012 National Teachers of the Year by President Obama. For Bosso, a seasoned teacher with over a decade of experience, creating lessons that challenge his students to rise to the demands of a “quickly evolving world” is about much more than preparing students to pass tests— he wants his teaching to reflect more than the contents of a classroom textbook. |
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July 30, 2012
 In a school where fighting, bullying, theft and absenteeism were the everyday norm, one teacher had the vision to help change the status quo. Guillermo Lopez Ossa knew he could empower the 650 students at Deogracias Cardona School in Risaralda, Colombia to transform their harmful classroom dynamics, despite chaos there and in the community. In short time, he had decreased violent incidents by 25 percent at Deogracias, and looked to expand to schools around the region. |
July 20, 2012
 A cohort of 19 early career English teachers from Turkey will continue to refine their teaching practice through an intensive professional development program at the University of North Dakota with the Teaching, Excellence, and Achievement Program (TEA) Program. The teachers arrived in the U.S. last week to begin their training at a Welcome Program in Washington, D.C., where they participated in training sessions on Cross-Cultural Communication and the U.S. Education System. In addition, the teachers traveled in small groups to visit schools and non-profit organizations working with English language learners in the greater D.C. area. |
