Poor people live in the mountains, rich people get four hours of energy per day, says speaker When Tallmadge Middle School students dressed up in Halloween costumes to “scare away drugs” as part of Red Ribbon Week, students also welcomed Humayoon Chakhansuri, a Fulbright student from Afghanistan, who was not scared away. He visited the 6th grade students as an international … [Read more...]
Tallmadge students get global education
Know Your Community - Know Your World's fall 2013 program got off to a running start, and before we knew it we were rounding out the end of year holidays. This fall our program sent several international speakers out to two main schools: Tallmadge Middle School in Tallmadge and to SCOPE Academy in southern Summit County. At Tallmadge Middle School (TMS) we started the … [Read more...]
Tallmadge students learn of international holiday traditions
Tallmadge Middle School recently hosted international speakers through the program Know Your Community – Know Your World. This is Tallmadge’s second year with the program, which brings four to six international speakers to 6th grade classrooms and matches the speakers with a teacher's needs in social studies and foreign languages. It also dovetales with the Ohio Department … [Read more...]
Tallmadge students get American view of China
Tallmadge Middle School was visited last month by Shannon Anicas, an American who, thanks to a scholarship, was able to live in China for a year. For more on the speaker visit https://www.facebook.com/shannon.anicas?ref=tn_tnmn. Here is her interview. Do Chinese people use chopsticks for every meal? Yes, they use them to cook with, too. By the time I left China, I was … [Read more...]
Next stop, Philippines, for Tallmadge Middle School student reporters
Tallmadge Middle School students splash into the Philippines with guest speaker (Editor's note: the following article is provided by a group of student community reporters from Tallmadge Middle School as part of the Akron International Friendship's Know Your World, Know Your Community project, which explores local and global diversity with area sixth-graders. On March 19, … [Read more...]
Student reporters interview visitors from Ukraine
(Editor's note: the following article is provided by a group of student community reporters from Tallmadge Middle School as part of the Akron International Friendship's Know Your World, Know Your Community project, which explores local and global diversity with area sixth-graders. This report is a profile of visitors from the Ukraine, including Viktoriya Viktorivna Baltser, … [Read more...]
