These skills include the ability to successfully negotiate cultural differences, and the ability to appreciate diverse perspectives.
Parents also benefit through direct program participation.
Students from paired classes visit each other for one day each month throughout the school year, alternating between the Philadelphia school and the suburban school. At each visit, the students engage in collaborative, hands-on curricular lessons and social activities that the teachers from both schools have prepared jointly. The classes also exchange pen pal letters throughout the year. Students have ongoing opportunities and encouragement to express their reactions to their partnership experience in class discussions and journal writing exercises. Click here to donate online.