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Global Engagement in the Middle School

On-Campus Initiatives Include

Mandarin Chinese language students create a celebratory program for the Chinese Year for the whole community, sharing their knowledge and appreciation for this important event in the Chinese calendar.
World Religions Assemblies are a feature of the Middle School assembly program that brings speakers and stories from the world's five major religions to the students in an educational way.
Through a Service Learning curriculum, 5th Grade history classes connect their study of ancient cultures to modern day concerns both locally and globally, enhancing the understanding of the permanence and necessity of clean water, water scarcity, and the role water plays in the development of each of the cultures studied.
The history curriculum in 6th grade is also globally focused, and involves in-depth culture studies through literature and film, connecting history with today’s world.
Middle School Model UN is a growing activity for 7th and 8th grade students, engaging them with international visitors as well as local Model UN conferences.

Partner School Exchanges Include

Every year for one month, 8th grade students from our partner school, Saint-Denis International School in Loches, France, live with Collegiate families and attended school. In March, a group of Collegiate 8th Graders studying French language return to France with the exchange students. Their trip focuses on language immersion through living with host families and participating in school activities.
Every year, Spanish language students host students from the Carol Baur School located in Mexico City. The visit includes classroom visits, presentations about Mexico, museum excursions, and a day trip to Williamsburg. The goals of this exchange are to create cultural awareness, heighten language skills and form relationships across borders.

Partner Schools

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China

Collegiate has two partner schools in China, Changzhou Senior High School, located in Changzhou and Beijing New Oriental Foreign Language School, located in Yangzhou.
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Collegiate's first partnership in China was created in 2006 with Changzhou Senior High School, an elite public school in the city of Changzhou in Jiangsu Province. Collegiate formed a second partnership in 2007 with a private school in the city of Yangzhou, also in Jiangsu Province: Beijing New Oriental Foreign Language School (BNOFLS) of Yangzhou.

Our partner schools in China send delegations of students to participate in our International Emerging Leaders Conference.

In 2014, Collegiate established the International Emerging Leaders: Asia Senior Capstone course that includes a reciprocal exchange with BNOFLS and Collegiate, focusing on the U.S.-China economic and political relations.

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Changzhou Senior High School
Beijing New Oriental Foreign Language School of Yangzhou
France

Our partner school in France, Saint Denis International School, is located in Loches.
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Collegiate and Saint Denis began with their attendance in the International Emerging Leaders conference. Since then, our relationship has evolved into language immersion exchanges. Annually, a reciprocal exgange occurs between Collegiate's eighth grade French students and Saint Denis students. We have also had longer term upper school exchange students between Saint Denis and Collegiate.

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Saint Denis International School
Ghana

Our partner school in Ghana, Ghana International Scool, is located in Accra.
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Ghana International School is located in Accra, Ghana and is home to students from all over the world. Our schools first met at the 2017 Lebone Leadership Festival held in South Africa. From there, our relationship has grown and they began attending our annual International Emerging Leaders Conference in 2018.

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Ghana International School
India

Our partner school in India, Modern School, is located in Agra.
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Every year since 2007, we groups of Collegiate Upper School students and faculty members have attended the annual Community Development & Leadership Summit (CDLS) held by Modern School in New Delhi. CDLS is an international conference for high school students from around the world, with Collegiate's application process beginning in April of each year.

In Fall 2009, a group from Modern School visited Collegiate, staying with Collegiate host families. A group of Collegiate English teachers, working on a curiculum project to bring Indian literature into the classroom, visited Modern School in India as part of professional growth trip to attend the Jaipur Literature Festival in 2013. The teachers met with their India colleagues at Modern, and exchanged ideas about favorite texts and teaching literature in the contemporary classroom.

Furthermore, Modern School annually sends a delegation of students to participate in our International Emerging Leaders Conference.

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Modern School
Italy

Our partner school in Italy, Liceo Classico Foscarine, is located in Venice.
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In 2014, Collegiate began its partnership with Italy by forming relationships with Liceo Classico Foscarini. Each year, students from Collegiate participating in Foscarini's Model United Nations conference. Foscarini students annually attend the International Emerging Leaders Conference held at Collegiate.
Kazakhstan

Our partner school in Kazakhstan, Murager Regional Boarding School, is located in Karaganda
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The Murager Regional Boarding School for Gifted Children, since the first International Emerging Leaders Conference Murager annually sends a delegation of students to participate.
Malaysia

Our partner school in Malaysa, St. George's Girls' School, is located in Penang.
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In 2012, for their senior projects, three Upper School students participated in an international conference hosted by St. George's. They were the only American representatives in the confernece.

St. George's Girls' School annually sends a delegation of students to particpate in our International Emerging Leaders Conference.

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St. George's Girls' School
Mexico

Our partner school in Mexico, Colegio Carol Baur, is located in Mexico City and Querétaro
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In the summer of 2006, a Collegiate faculty member went to a technology conference at Colegio Carol Baur, located in Mexico City, Mexico, a private school serving students from 2 years of age through high school. A group from Carol Baur came to Collegiate in Spring 2007, and a group from Collegiate went to Carol Baur in January 2008, where a formal exchange program (intercambio) was established between the two schools. Every year since then, Carol Baur has sent a group of students for an exchange with our Middle School Spanish language program.

In November 2009, Collegiate attended the first Youth Congress of the Americas, hosted by Carol Baur, a that brought together students from South, Central, and North America. Since then, Collegiate students have participated in the school's annual Baur International Model United Nations program in Querétaro and Mexico City, Mexico. Collegiate students enrolled in the International Emerging Leaders: Americas Senior Capstone, participate in the program each spring as part of the course. In additon, Carol Baur annually sends a delegation of students to participate in our fall International Emerging Leaders Conference.

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Carol Baur
Morocco

Our partner school in Morocco, George Washington, is located in Casablanca, Morocco.
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Since 2012, a group of Upper School students have traveled to Morocco for their Senior Projects, living with host families, practicing their French and Arabic while sightseeing and interacting with children of all ages, while also studying their own individual projects based on their various interests.

Furthermore, George Washington Academy annually sends a delegation of students to participate in our International Emerging Leaders Conference.

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George Washington Academy
South Africa

Our partner school in South Africa, Lebone II College of the Royal Bafokeng, is located in Phokeng.
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Each summer, a group of Upper School students attend the Lebone II Leadership Festival in July.

Furthermore, Lebone II College of the Royal Bafokeng annually sends a delegation of students to participate in our International Emerging Leaders Conference.

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Lebone II College of the Roya Bafokeng
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Spain

Our partner school in Spain, Colegio Internacional Alminar, is located in Seville.
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In June 2011, a group of Upper School Spanish students traveled to Spain, living with host families from our partner school, immersing themselves in the language and culture, and a separate group went in June 2012 and March 2014, and a group of students from Alminar visited Collegiate in the spring of 2013. These annual exchange opportunities ensure strong relationships between our two schools as well as provide a capstone language experience for many Collegiate seniors.

Lower School students at both schools have maintained an ongoing pen-pal relationship through English and Spanish classes.

Furthermore, Colegio Internacional Alminar annually sends a delegation of students to participate in our International Emerging Leaders Conference.

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Colegio Internacional Alminar

As a school, we are committed to providing many different experiences for students so that they can learn about different cultures, develop knowledge and context for today's global issues, and build cross-cultural communication skills from an early age.

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