Through Technology ISPT links NC high school classrooms with classrooms abroad for year-long exchanges of ideas, cultural information, and learning. Approximately 35 North Carolina classes participate each year. Teachers collaborate with their international counterparts to design programs that support their mutual curricular objectives.
Students then carry out the plans using Internet technology.
ISPT focuses on NC schools with limited international exposure. Each features a two-day orientation and two weeks abroad. Most also include a follow up workshop to apply lessons learned in the classroom. Classroom teachers, principals, superintendents, and local school board members may apply. International Educator Visits North Carolina studetns and teachers learn about the world through interaction with delegations of international teachers or principals who live with NC educators for a week and accompany them to school.