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  • Vita
    • What Fuels My Fire
    • Novel
    • Selected Poems & Speeches from Dues – The Coming of Allie Cohen, a novel by Arnold Heller
    • Arnie Heller Turns 70 at Secret’s Maroma in Cancun, Mexico: Part 1
    • Arnie Heller’s 70th Birthday Celebration at Secret’s Maroma in Cancun, Mexico: Part II
    • Arnie Heller's Big Fiftieth Birthday Party
    • Arnie Heller's Memorable 40th Birthday Party
    • Arnold and Patty Perform Twist and Shout at MME
    • Dunwoody, GA, 2019: My Ten Favorite Places Around Town
    • Ten Best Perimeter Area Happy Hour Deals - Updated January 10, 2019
    • 1996 Atlanta Olympics: Envoy Driver for Estonian National Team
    • Selected Special or Influential People I've Known
    • Photo Album 1 – Arnold & Sue Heller: My Beautiful Wife of Thirty-Eight Wonderful Years
    • Photo Album 2 - Arnold & Sue Heller: Our Son Sasha Bart Heller is Born April 19, 1979
    • Photo Album 3 – Arnold & Sue Heller: Selected Special People We’ve Known or Met
    • Photo Album 4 - Arnold & Sue Heller: Our Core and Extended Family
    • Photo Album 5 - Arnold & Sue Heller: Sasha's Bar Mitzvah - Tradition
    • Photo Album 6 - Arnold & Sue Heller: Sasha's Bar Mitzvah - Celebration
    • Photo Album 7 - Arnold & Sue Heller: Our Perfect Wedding, June 17, 1973
    • Photo Album 8 - Arnold & Sue Heller: Career and Life Passes with the Blink of an Eye
    • Photo Album 9 - Arnold & Sue Heller: Most Treasured Family Photos
    • Photo Album 10 - Arnold & Sue Heller: More Pictures and Stories from our Perfect Wedding
  • Travel Writing
    • Eleven Generations of the Heller Family in America 1: B'nai Mitzvah of Kyra and Jaron Polinsky - Tradition
    • Eleven Generations of the Heller Family in America 2: B'nai Mitzvah of Kyra and Jaron Polinsky - Celebration
    • Iberian Odyssey Oct. 4 - 16, 2019: Spain - Barcelona, Madrid, Granada, Malaga; Portugal - Faro, Lisbon, Porto
    • Mile High City: Denver, Colorado
    • Ultimate US Western States Journey
    • Florida A1A Trail
      • The Beaches: Atlantic & Neptune Beach - a Tale of Two Sweet Beach Villages, Feb. 23 - March 1, 2020
    • Golden Isle: The New Jekyll Island State Park and Resort
    • St. Simons Island, Georgia: A Love Story
    • St. Simons Island II: Hurricane Matthew’s Influence
    • Sarasota, Florida: Something for Everyone
    • Longboat and Siesta Keys, Florida: Two Beautiful Beach Resorts
    • Washington State Odyssey
    • Oregon Odyssey
    • Flowers of Oregon
    • Arnold Heller & Bobbie Heller Polinsky's Genealogy: Journey into Our Mysterious Family Heritage
    • Arnold Heller & Bobbie Heller Polinsky's Genealogy 2: Our Pennsylvania Family's Roots, History, and Heritage
    • Arnold Heller and Bobbie Heller Polinsky's Genealogy 3: Our DNA Estimate and Ethnicity Breakdown
    • Dominican Dream Vacation
  • Int'l. Business Education
    • Model International Business Program
    • IBPHS Mission
    • IBPHS Guide
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    • IBO Presentation
    • IBO Voca / Academic Ed Conference
    • First ACTCo Catalog
    • IBP ACTCo Program Evolution
    • IBP ACTCo Evolution Part 2
    • IBP ACTCo Evolution Part 3
    • Global Studies Curriculum
  • Sister Cities
    • 2023 Holocaust Event - Nate Leipciger, Reflections & Remembrance
    • 2022 Atlanta Sister Cities Commission Report
    • Atlanta Sister Cities Commission Proposal to Mayor Dickens and the Office of International Affairs to Develop a Series of Murals in Atlanta City Hall
    • 2022 Holocaust Remembrance: Faith & Fortitude - Ella Blumenthal
    • 2021 Annual Ra'anana / ASCC Report
    • 2021 Annual Holocaust Remembrance Event: Miracles & Memories - Stephen Jacobs, Holocaust Survivor
    • 2020 Annual Ra'anana / ASCC Report
    • Myrna Cohen, Vice Chair, Visits Ra'anana November 14, 2019
    • In Memory of Saul Cohen, 1933 – 2019, a Founding Member of the Atlanta – Ra’anana Sister City Committee
    • 2020 Annual Holocaust Remembrance Event
    • 2019 Holocaust Remembrance Events
    • 2018 Holocaust Remembrance Event
    • Atlanta - Ra'anana Sister City Committee Web Page
    • 2016 Ra'anana Annual Report
    • 2015 Ra'anana Annual Report
    • 2013 Ra'anana Annual Report
    • 2014 Ra'anana Annual Report
    • ARSCC 2012 Annual Report
    • Sister Cities Development
    • 5 Step Plan of Implementation
    • ARSCC 1: History Begins with NAHS – Ostrovsky Exchange that Births Sister City Twinning Initiative
    • ARSCC 2: Driving New Sister City Committee to Official Status
    • ARSCC 3: Signing #1 – Ra’anana hosts Atlanta Delegation May 11 – 17, 2001
    • ARSCC 4: Signing #2 – Two Mayors at SCI Conference July 25 – 28, 2001
    • ARSCC 5: Put Strategic Plan into Action
    • ARSCC 6: Build on Great Start – Expand Economic Development & Cooperation
    • ARSCC 7: Two Strengths - Education & Economic Development
    • ARSCC 8: We Have Done Our Best Under the Circumstances
    • ARSCC 9: Re-dedication & Renewal - the Two Mayors Meet
    • Blueprint for Establishing Sandy Springs Sister Cities Commission & Program
  • Social Studies
    • Global Studies Curriculum Update: Nationalism & Imperialism, Collective Security, International Trade, and Russia, China, India, US, Germany & Japan - 2022 Comparisons
    • Fall 2021 in Dunwoody's Perimeter Parkway East Community: A Special Neighborhood's High Quality of Life is At-Risk
    • 2021 Visions: What opportunities do you see in the Upcoming 5782 Jewish New Year?
    • Passover 2021: Celebrating Freedom from Four 2020 Plagues
    • America's Dark Age and Great Aberration: The Trump Administration 2016 - 2021
    • Life During the Pandemic: A Ten-Month Long Blur of Days
    • Black Lives Matter: Race - America's Original Sin and Crucible
    • Opening up the Floodgates to a New Normal
    • Mr. Darryl Aftel, Oct. 21, 1950 - Jan. 21, 2020: Memorial for a Beloved Teacher, Coach, and Registrar
    • Memorial to Andrew Beard, 1947 - 2018: Publication of His Book of Poems Never to Catch a Butterfly
    • Chef Chris Lanter, Cache Cache, and Aspen, Colorado
    • Forgiveness in the Dark Age of Trump
    • Bridging the Academic and Vo-Tech Gap
    • My Panzer Family in Israel Web Page
    • When Dr. Harriss Canceled the South Africa Seminar
    • Changes in Teaching U. S. – Japan Trade Relations, 1990 – 2000: A Retrospective
    • Fulbright ACIE Teacher Exchange to Karagonda, Kazakhstan
    • Regions: Atlantic Provinces of Canada
    • Regions: Great Plains & Prairie Provinces
    • Dunwoody, GA, March 12 - 28, 2019: Spring begins anew and my city again becomes a blooming beauty
    • Five Themes of Geography – Iceland
    • Five Themes of Geography – South Africa
    • Nzimbu Brown, SVG, Goatskin and Banana Leaf Artist
    • Values Clarification 1: American Perceptions of Futurism, Change, Technology, and Politics
    • Values Clarification 2: Four Lessons in Values and Drug Education
    • Dr. John Goodlad, Educational Leadership, Curriculum & Instruction
    • Video: Northside High School of Arts & Soviet Youth Visa Exchange Dec 22, 1989 – Jan 6, 1990
    • Ashford Highline Viaduct: Elevated Linear Park
    • Green Cay Wetlands, Delray Beach, Florida: A Nature Preserve and Reconstructed Wetland
    • Images of the Caribbean
      • Images of the Eastern Caribbean Region
  • DISSERTATION
    • Background, Abstract, Tables
    • Ch. 1 Introduction
    • Ch. 2: Historical & Conceptual Background
    • Ch. 3 - Methodolgies & Procedures
    • Ch. 4: Analysis, Interpretation, Conclusions
    • Ch. 5: Summary & Implications for Further Research
    • Appendices A - F & Bibliography
  • Student Exchange
    • SE V: Greatest Student Exchange in History
    • SE V Part 2
    • Montego Bay High School for Girls, Jamaica
    • Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, Business Schools Program
    • Kwungbuk High School, Daegu, Korea
    • Atlanta - Salcedo, Dominican Republic, Sister City Committee
    • Mainor School of Economics, Tallinn, Estonia – USIA Grant
    • Terry Fox Secondary, Port Coquitlam, BC, Canada
    • German Business Schools Program: Frankfurt (LES), Berlin (AWO, SCO)
    • American School, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    • Lincoln International Academy, Managua, Nicaragua
    • 1999 Keizai Koho Center Fellows Study Tour of Japan
    • Gateshead College, Newcastle, England, UK
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Sister Cities

The mission and purpose of sister cities is to foster friendship and trade between two cities; the means is by facilitating joint projects such as economic development initiatives, people to people exchanges, cultural and religious endeavors. Dr. Heller, since 1995, has served as a Member of the Atlanta Sister Cities Commission.

  • 1995 – 98: Chaired the Atlanta – Rio de Janeiro Sister City Committee
  • 1999: Founded the Atlanta – Ra’anana Sister City Committee with great help from many wonderful people
  • 2001: Atlanta – Ra’anana Committee established as Atlanta’s 17th sister city

About Dr. Arnold Heller

2018 DCPL Author ExpoArnold Heller earned B. A. (1968) and Masters of Education (1971) degrees from Pace University, New York City, and a Ph. D. from Georgia State University in Atlanta (1978) for Curriculum & Instruction and taught in the Atlanta Public Schools (1972 – 2004) Northside (1978 – 92) and North Atlanta High Schools (1992 – 2004).

 

Arnold Heller, Ph. D., educator, specializes in:
  • Developing innovative social studies and global entrepreneurship programs for high schools
  • Establishing / developing sister cities programs, commissions, committees
  • Preparing groups / organizations to plan, engage, and host student exchanges of varying sizes, missions and themes

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Achievements

  • Received many awards for excellence in academic, entrepreneurship, international education

     

  • Organized / facilitated / hosted 25 student exchanges 1989 – 2011 including 6 super-exchanges

     

  • Coordinated major Atlanta forum 1980 – 2004: Distinguished Lecturer & Critical Issues Seminar Series

     

  • Doctoral Dissertation (1978) produced a statistically valid prejudice reduction treatment and tools for measuring success of school’s infusion of multi-cultural education applications / processes into the curriculum stream.

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  • American Councils for International Education, ACTR – ACCELS, Fulbright Teacher Exchange to Karagonda, Kazakhstan Oct. 18 – Nov. 1, 1999

     

  • Kezai Koho Center (Japan Institute for Social & Economic Affairs) Study Tour of Japan – Fellowship Programs for American, Australian, British and Canadian Social Studies Educators

     

  • Northside School of the Arts Tour Show Student Exchange with Moscow Aviation Institute’s Soviet Youth Visa group Dec. 22, 1989 – Jan. 6, 1990.  Received $51,000 Coca Cola Foundation grant and $17,000 Anne Cox Chambers grant to fund the exchange featured in One Moment in Time video.

 

  • International Relations – Global Studies Curriculum

    • Global Studies Curriculum Update: Nationalism & Imperialism, Collective Security, International Trade, and Russia, China, India, US, Germany & Japan - 2022 Comparisons
    • UNIT 1:  Geographical Literacy

    • UNIT 2:  Historical Trends & Cycles

    • UNIT 3: Intellectual Equality of All Racial Groups

    • UNIT 4: Introduction to Nationalism and Imperialism

    • UNIT 5: Collective Security

    • UNIT 6: China, India, Japan, Russia, Germany, US – Comparison

    • UNIT 7: International Trade – Importance, Impact & Issues

    • UNIT 8: Middle East – Israel, Palestinians, Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Egypt, Saudi Arabia

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