Pittsburg Hosts Teachers in Annual Exchange

Local students study different culture

By BRETT DALTON
The Morning Sun
Posted Jan 31, 2009 @ 10:30 PM

PITTSBURG —

This year, as in years past, teacher from Paraguay have traveled to southeast Kansas to spend a month learning about America’s school system.
The exchange program, Pittsburg-Paraguay International Teachers for Tomorrow, is a result of the Partners for [...]

Visiting Teachers from Encarnación

Visiting Teachers from Encarnacion
Originally uploaded by Kansas Paraguay Partners

Vergie Opdycke (host from DeSoto, KS), Maria Elena Villalba and Lourdes Gomez (Encarnacion, Paraguay), and Kim Kreicker (KPP Board member) attended a Kansas University Women’s Basketball game. Rock Chalk Jayhawk!

Sharing the Language @ Lawrence Public Library

 
KPP Member and Paraguayan student at KU in the Lawrence Journal World Newspaper:
By Terry Rombeck
December 4, 2007

 

Karen Acosta is sitting on a toddler-sized chair, and she’s using her best “I’m-talking-to-cute-little-kids” voice.She’s reading to about a dozen people, children and their mothers, gathered at the Lawrence Public Library.
The story is about a child who is planning [...]

Fulbright Profesoras

The instructors who provided 80 hours of instruction in Spanish and Paraguayan culture were from left to right:
Delia Farias, Maria Eugenia (Pebe) Britez, Beba, Antionette Tackkett (Fulbright Scholar), Andrea Amarilla, Raquel.
Delia was the first CPK-KPP visiting teacher to Lawrence in February 2005, Pebe and Andrea are KU grads. Andrea also lived with KPP member Mary [...]

Fulbright 2007 Photos

Instructors, students and coordinators for the Fulbright Scholars to Paraguay Program. See posting below for names of the scholars.