The Cayman Islands In August 2006, director Greg Hedger invited to the Cayman International School to do an inservice for their teaching staff. More...Grand_Cayman.htmlGrand_Cayman.htmlshapeimage_1_link_0
A Reading conference in Norway and Oxford University Before traveling to South Africa, Pete made some important stopovers in Europe. First to Norway to present at then to Oxford to meet Peter Bryant, Terezinha Nunes and Neil Ramsden. More...Other_Travels.htmlOther_Travels.htmlshapeimage_2_link_0
Ghana X2! 2008 & 2009 In February 2008, Pete made his way to the Lincoln Community School in Accra, Ghana. The staff had been primed by a visit from Melvyn Ramsden in the fall during the AISA conference they hosted. He then returned for a second trip in January 2009. See scenes from both workshops at this link.Ghana.htmlGhana.htmlshapeimage_3_link_0
South Africa Pete headed to South Africa in 2007 to work with teachers at the American International School of Johannesburg. Head Lori Thiessen hosted Pete as he presented and instructed the finer points of orthography. More...South_Africa.htmlSouth_Africa.htmlshapeimage_4_link_0

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Indonesia (Sumatra X2)

Teachers and students at the Caltex American School in Sumatra, Indonesia are doing amazing work with the help Pete’s visit in the fall of 08 and 09. Click here for more about the first visit, and here for examples of “spelling cases” one of their teachers has used to turn the whole community - students teachers and parents into co-learners of the English spelling system. I got to return to this school on the latest fall 09 trip again. Go here for tales from that trip

Sofia

Pete’s first on-line workshop the Anglo American School of Sofia has the teachers diving into spelling system with new confidence and curiosity. Thanks to them to proving that we can take advantage of this technology to teach a large group of teachers from across the pond!

Beijing (On-Line and On-Site) Pete worked on-line with teachers from Beijing for a term long consultancy for the 08-09 school year. We did large group and small group staff workshops and classroom visits. See examples from the On-Line Consultancy here, and classroom stories, videos, images and lessons from tho 09 Fall trip here. ../Site_29/WW_World_Tour_Fall_09.html../Site_14/ISB_WW_Newsletters.htmlshapeimage_5_link_0
Chicago Pete was invited to present a full day workshop at the Illinois Branch of the International Dyslexia Association (IBIDA). See Pete’s article in their newsletter at this link. While in Chicago, he was also invited to teach example lessons at the nearby South Elgin High School. ../Key_Newsletters/IDA_Newsletter.html../Site_14/ISB_WW_Newsletters.htmlshapeimage_6_link_0
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Bahrain Pete ran workshops for Riffa Views International School, an ISS school in Bahrain as part of his Fall 09 trip to Asia and the Middle East. This was an introductory workshop for this new school that is making Real Spelling an integral resource for their literacy curriculum. You can see more from this fall trip herehttp://www.rvis.edu.bh/../Site_29/WW_World_Tour_Fall_09.html../Site_14/ISB_WW_Newsletters.htmlshapeimage_8_link_0shapeimage_8_link_1
Doha The spark for Pete’s trip to the American School of Doha began with Grade 4 teacher Ilana McGrath’s attendance at our first Summer Course. She returned the two following years, now with other fellow ASD star Katrina Theilmann in tow. The success these teachers had in the classroom (e.g. see here) spread interest around the school. The You can see more from this fall trip here.http://www.asd.edu.qa/../Workshops_Site_40/Summer_2007.html../In_the_Classroom_Site_44/Gr._4_investigation_of_bound_base_%3Cmedi%3E.html../Site_29/WW_World_Tour_Fall_09.html../Site_14/ISB_WW_Newsletters.htmlshapeimage_9_link_0shapeimage_9_link_1shapeimage_9_link_2shapeimage_9_link_3