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		<title>Teach with Africa and LEAP in The New York Times</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes, that&#8217;s us on the front page of The New York Times! Today’s New York Times article “New Schools in South Africa Serve the Underserved”, by Celia W. Dugger, highlights the tremendous success that Teach with Africa and the LEAP Schools are helping to foster. “As an organization, we’re delighted such a collaborative exchange of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://teachwithafrica.org/blog/?p=1118</link>
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		<title>Want To Be a Teach with Africa Fellow?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Interested in becoming a Teach with Africa Fellow? Applications and program information for the 2011 Fellowship will be available at our website on October 1st, 2010. Teach with Africa’s goal is to increase local capacity by sending educators to both teach and learn. TwA supports academic programs, sustainability efforts and social entrepreneurship initiatives by placing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://teachwithafrica.org/blog/?p=1107</link>
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		<title>First Graduates from Across the Globe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First Graduate is a college access program working with aspiring first-generation university students in San Francisco, California. It works exclusively with students because of the &#8220;tremendous need for college access and completion services for students who come from non-college educated families.&#8221; The following story is excerpted from their website: On August 3, First Graduate hosted our [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://teachwithafrica.org/blog/?p=1083</link>
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		<title>Bringing Lessons from South Africa Home</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This summer Teach with Africa partnered with the Bayview/Hunter&#8217;s Point YMCA in San Francisco, CA, to run an academic camp for local, at-risk youth. More than 75 students, grades 2-8, participated in Math, Science, Writing, and Life Orientation classes taught by former (and future) Teach with Africa Fellows. “This camp allowed Teach with Africa to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://teachwithafrica.org/blog/?p=1058</link>
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		<title>The True Power of Collaboration</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jeanette Long is a Life Orientation teacher and the Co-Founder of the LEAP 3 Science and Maths School in Johannesburg, South Africa. We (LEAP3 en masse) saw the Teach with Africa fellows off [this week] at the Gautrain station nearby the school. The farewell given by our students was a heartfelt expression of the warm [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://teachwithafrica.org/blog/?p=1037</link>
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		<title>Notes from the Field: Gone But Not Forgotten</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Pam Baker, 2010 Teach with Africa Fellow, teaches English at High Tech High International in San Diego, CA. After a summer teaching in South Africa, the 2010 TwA Fellows returned to the US this week. Woke up for the last time in this great little apartment. While I was getting ready, sweet little Kevin came [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://teachwithafrica.org/blog/?p=1010</link>
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		<title>Notes from the Field: A Night with John Gilmour</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Steve Le, 2010 Teach with Africa fellow, is a teacher and co-director of the Service Learning program at Pacific Ridge School, in Carlsbad, CA. John Gilmour, founder of the LEAP Schools, met with all of the Teach With Africa fellows on Thursday. He opened the discussion by providing the context for intervention work in education, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://teachwithafrica.org/blog/?p=978</link>
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		<title>Notes from the Field: Science Brought to Life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Deb Snyder, 2010 Teach with Africa fellow, has a BS in Global Strategic Management and an MBA from Dominican University of California. After so many days of clear weather, Wednesday dawned gray and foggy. This wasn&#8217;t a deterrent to Josh&#8217;s science class, though. [Josh Elder, 2010 Teach with Africa fellow, is a teacher at KIPP [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://teachwithafrica.org/blog/?p=965</link>
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		<title>Notes from the Field: The New Voices of Africa</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Katie Burke, 2010 Teach with Africa fellow, facilitates writing workshops at City College of San Francisco when she’s not teaching in South Africa. I have formed and facilitated a writers society at LEAP. My students&#8217; words can be emotionally hard-hitting and painful to read; these young ones inspire me every day with their relentless truth [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://teachwithafrica.org/blog/?p=951</link>
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		<title>Notes from the Field: Women&#8217;s Day in South Africa</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Deb Snyder, 2010 Teach with Africa fellow, has a BS in Global Strategic Management and an MBA from Dominican University of California. August 9th is a holiday here in South Africa. The story goes that in 1954, 20,000 women marched to Pretoria with a petition that they wanted to become law.  From that day, Women&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://teachwithafrica.org/blog/?p=939</link>
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