Since 2014, the November Conference in Guatemala has been an annual opportunity for teachers from our international network to share math teaching and learning across contexts. This professional development opportunity for teachers of all backgrounds includes mathematics workshops where teachers...
If you’ve ever taken a long family car trip, you know that you eventually run out of playlists and podcasts that please everyone. During the summer of 2014, while driving from North Carolina to Michigan, our foursome discovered the art...
The T2TGlobal team has grown recently in response to the needs of teachers and students around the world. We'd like to introduce you to the newest members of our staff. Ali Jones will oversee all of our projects from Texas as...
by Katie Korsyn, T2TGlobal Leadership Coordinator Because in Guatemala the school year lines up with the calendar year, November brings opportunities to celebrate months of learning in the festive spirit of the imminent holidays. The end of the year is a...
by Gabriela Bermingham, second grade dual language teacher in Asheville, NC For the last two years, T2TGlobal has shipped boxes to me full of handicrafts from countries such as Guatemala, Ecuador and Kenya. My students sell the items at our school...
Our guest blogger today is Dustin Dresser of Costa Rica Frika. We invited him to Antigua, Guatemala, last month, to serve as an interpreter for T2TGlobal's math education conference for local teachers. Here are his reflections...
T2TGlobal would like to welcome a new staff member, Saoirse (pronounced "seer-sha") Scott. She recently joined the US-based team after completing a summer internship with the Guatemala staff. Currently a junior at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,...
For one week in November, dozens of teachers from all over Guatemala showed just how dedicated they are to providing the best education to their students. With the school year ending for a two-month break, they would certainly have been...
Today in Guatemala, we were honored by the NGO Estrella de Mar with its Partner of the Year award for 2017. T2TGlobal has supported the two math teachers at its Colegio Impacto girls' leadership academy in Panajachel, Sololá, with coaching in pedagogy. At the...
Hello. My name is Gabriela Bermingham, and I am a 2nd grade dual language (Spanish) teacher at Oakley Elementary in Asheville, NC. I have been teaching for a total of 12 years. Last spring, I had the opportunity to travel to Chapel...
In our previous post, we mentioned how fortunate we felt to have assembled a dream team of mathematics and science educators to travel to Guatemala with us. The dream continues with this installment. Board member Linda Gojak, whose extensive resume...
What are some famous pairings that you can think of? Peanut butter and jelly, Fred and Ginger, shoes and socks, Microsoft and Apple…the list goes on. What about science and mathematics? They are often spoken of as two complementary disciplines,...
Written by Executive Director Chadd McGlone T2T-I has a new word in its vocabulary of programs: seminar. In Spanish, it’s capacitaciones pedagógicas. Given that we’re providing seminars in STEM education, we’re considering coining the term STEMinars. You heard it here first, folks! To...
An interesting concept in mathematics is exponential growth. At T2T-I we like to practice what we preach, so we’re first going to provide you with the definition from Dictionary.com: development at an increasingly rapid rate in proportion to the growing...
This post was contributed by Elizabeth Ollila (at right), who is currently a senior at Carrboro High School in North Carolina. T2T-I thanks her for participating on the 2016 Teacher Trip to Santa Avelina, Guatemala. Here are her words...
Written by Kelley O'Brien, T2T-I Associate Director, Carrboro, N.C., U.S. It was not until I was 20 years old that I learned to love math. This epiphany occurred during a game theory class I took from Professor Hollingsworth at University of...
How can local culture make STEM education more engaging for students? Teachers2Teachers-International visited a school on the Pacific Coast of Guatemala to coach teachers how to do this....
Written by Charlotte McGlone, Chapel Hill, North Carolina Visiting a new school with Teachers2Teachers - International is always an interesting experience. There is a mixture of excitement and nervousness that makes these trips unique. Excitement, because I know that I could be creating the precursors for...
Written by Lucía Dávila, Guatemala City, Guatemala My name is Lucía Dávila, and I am from Guatemala City. Currently, I am working as the Communication and Outreach Specialist for an NGO called Teachers2Teachers-International, which provides global professional development opportunities for teachers. With a focus...
Written by Lucía Dávila, Guatemala City, Guatemala On December 9, 2015, I had the opportunity to participate in a conference about agroscience and culture for the 7th grade students of North Duplin Junior-Senior High School, located in Mount Olive, North Carolina. This opportunity was created by...
Written by Lucía Dávila, Guatemala City, Guatemala Aristotle once said, “The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.” He would have been pleased by the gathering of teachers in Guatemala that sought to harness such power. Teachers2Teachers–International brought together approximately 350...
Workshops in Common Hope, Antigua, Guatemala Written by Lucía Dávila, Guatemala City, Guatemala We started our day by introducing the interpreters to their corresponding speakers. Our beautiful and brilliant interpreters were volunteers from the state university of Guatemala, Universidad de San Carlos de...
By Jennifer McGlone, Chapel Hill, N.C. Domingo is the 6th grade teacher at the William M. Botnan School in Santa Avelina, Quiché, Guatemala. Watch this video and learn more about the life of an amazing teacher and an example for the...
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