Athens to Athens!
Athens Academy Latin teacher Kelly Ryan was recently awarded a Fulbright Teacher Exchange Scholarship for the upcoming summer. Ms. Ryan will spend the summer in Athens, Greece, participating in the 2010 Greece Classics Seminar. As part of the program, she will study Athenian monuments and sites and travel throughout the country, spending a week on Crete, ten days in the Peloponnese, and a week in Northern Greece. The scholarship also provides a stipend for the purchase of classroom materials to be shared with students and fellow teachers upon Ms. Ryan’s return to Athens, Georgia.
The Fulbright Teacher Exchange Program provides opportunities for teachers to participate in direct exchanges of positions with colleagues from other countries for a semester or a year. By living and working abroad, exchange teachers gain an understanding and appreciation of different educational systems and cultures, and enrich their schools and communities by providing students with new perspectives about the world in which they live.