August 30, 1998
The Colorado Council of the
International Reading Association (CCIRA) would like to take this
opportunity to inform you and your colleagues about our Foreign
Affiliate/Colorado Exchange Project.
The goal of the committee is to
foster international communication, including the exchange of visits,
between Colorado members and foreign affiliates of IRA. Our exchange
projects have enabled an international sharing of information. about
literacy education, and they have been the occasions for the
development of long-lasting friendships.
We, in Colorado, have enjoyed
hosting teachers from Denmark, Ireland, England, Finland, Austria,
Columbia, Australia, Russia, Costa Rica, Pakistan, Sweden and
Thailand. In addition to providing homes for our visiting teachers, we
have been able to offer them opportunities to observe school programs,
meet with their teaching counterparts, participate in workshops and
university classes, and attend cultural events. In turn, teachers from
Colorado have visited educators in Denmark, Columbia, Costa Rica,
Sweden and Finland.
If you and your reading council
wish to develop an exchange project that would involve teachers from
your country and from Colorado, please write to us at the address
given below. In addition to planning visits to our respective regions,
you may be interested in exchanges of reading publications, program
materials, and pen pal letters between classrooms. We would be
delighted to work with you and your colleagues to establish an
exchange project that would be of mutual benefit.
Sincerely yours
Eddie Ellington, Marge Johanson
Co-chairpersons, Foreign Affiliate/Colorado Exchange Project
Mrs. Eddie Ellington
5410 N. Lariat Drive
Castle Rock, CO USA 80104
(303) 688-5799
Marge Johanson
6450 W. David Drive
Littleton, CO, USA 80128
(303) 973-0943
