Papers & Articles
Images of the Western Caribbean – Cozumel, Mexico: A Great Little Island and Getaway
Patty and I celebrated former birthdays at three all adult, all-inclusive resorts in Cancun, the Playa del Carmen, and the Riviera Maya. Two resorts were very good, the third, Secrets Maroma, was special. See...
Images of the Western Caribbean Region – New Orleans: The ‘Big Easy’ is Back and Better than Ever
I’d previously been to New Orleans three times; 1972, 1984, and 1998 but not since and wondered how the city had changed in the years since Hurricane Katrina transformed it. An estimated 150,000 of the poorest and least educated citizens left New Orleans for Houston,...
2019 Holocaust Remembrance Events
2019 Am Yisrael Chai Hope and Perserverance from Am Yisrael Chai on Vimeo.
Green Cay Wetlands, Delray Beach, Florida: A Nature Preserve and Reconstructed Wetland
I discovered the Green Cay Wetland and Nature Preserve Dec. 27, 2017 when my sister Bobbie Polinsky suggested that we visit the place. I did not know what to expect and did not bother to bring my camera. Upon first view, I realized that I had made a big mistake....
2018 Annual Holocaust Remembrance Event!
The Am Yisrael Chai event, Conscience and Action, “Whoever saves a life, it is considered as if he saved an entire world” was a powerful program attended by more than 900 people. Keynote speakers, Leo Melamed and Chihiro Sugihara were outstanding....
Selected Special or Influential People I’ve Known, also Some Cool or Key Moments that I’ve Enjoyed
I’ve been fortunate to have met or known many influential, important, or famous people – some even took an interest in me – all helped shape me to some extent. I’ve selected a number of special people to present and exceptional moments in my career to describe and...
1996 Atlanta Olympics: Envoy Driver for Estonian National Team
When Atlanta was awarded the 1996 Olympic games, I and my wife Sue rushed to volunteer for a once in a lifetime experience. We registered, received our official soon to be modified uniforms, and looked forward to being a part of the ultimate global athletic...
Arnie Heller’s Big Fiftieth Birthday Party
Both my grandfather Albert Heller and father Bernie Heller died at age forty. That I might too experience that fate influenced me to make every moment in life count. So, when I turned forty, I celebrated as if it might be my last year. If you’ve not viewed the...
2017 Annual Ra’anana / ASCC Report
2016 Annual Report Atlanta – Ra’anana Sister Cities Committee – ARSCC
Ra'anana Israel Ra'anana Profile Ra'anana is known locally as 'Little America' because so many settlers came from New York. By the 1947 War for Independence, it was a village of 3,000 residents. In the 1980's, Ra'anana was declared a city and...
Arnold and Patty Perform Twist and Shout at MME
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GFOjmMx-1A
Arnie Heller’s Memorable 40th Birthday Party
2015 Annual Report Atlanta – Ra’anana Sister Cities Committee, ARSCC
Ra'anana Israel Ra'anana Profile Ra'anana is known locally as 'Little America' because so many settlers came from New York. By the 1947 War for Independence, it was a village of 3,000 residents. In the 1980's, Ra'anana was declared a city and occupies six square...
My Panzer Family in Israel Web Page
The inspiration to produce this web page grew out of a March 20 – 27, 2015 Atlanta trade and sister cities mission to Israel. After 39 years, I fortunately re-connected with branches of the Panzer family in Israel, the Ilani and Metzger lines. I so appreciated the...
ARSCC 9: Re-dedication & Renewal – the Two Mayors Meet
ARSCC 9: Rededication & Renewal: The Two Mayors Meet Outgoing Israel Consul General in Atlanta Opher Aviran hoped for a legacy that included a trade mission to Israel led by Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed, and also benefitted the sister city partnership. If based on the...
2014 Ra’anana Annual Report
Ra’anana ISRAEL Atlanta - Ra’anana Sister City Committee Date of Affiliation: 2001 Chair: Arnold Heller Web Site: www.arnoldheller.org Contact: bettydavis@mindspring.com Ra’anana is in the heart of the Central District, located 15 miles north of Tel Aviv. The...
Blueprint for Establishing Sandy Springs Sister Cities Commission & Program
Dr. Arnold Heller www.arnoldheller.org arnoldheller@comcast.net, arnoldheller@arnoldheller.org Proposal: Establish Sandy Springs Sister Cities Commission (SSSCC) and Program Introduction Today’s connected world influences even smaller cities such as...
Images of the Eastern Caribbean Region: St. Maarten – St. Lucia – Barbados – Martinique – Dominica – St. Thomas – Half Moon Cay
The eastern Caribbean region includes the Bahamas, Turks & Caicos, the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, and the Leeward and Windward chain of islands. This report focuses on six of the islands: St. Maarten – St. Lucia – Barbados – Martinique...
2013 Ra’anana Annual Report
Ra’anana ISRAEL Atlanta - Ra’anana Sister City Committee Date of Affiliation: 2001 Chair: Arnold Heller Web Site: www.arnoldheller.org Contact: bettydavis@mindspring.com Ra’anana is in the heart of the Central District, located 15 miles north of Tel Aviv. The...
UNIT 8: Middle East – Israel, Palestinians, Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Egypt, Saudi Arabia
Does the below diagram of the Middle East confuse you? If not, then you have been following the region’s news very closely – or are still clueless and concerned about where the Arab Spring revolutions and the region are headed. The modern Middle...
UNIT 7: International Trade – Importance, Impact & Issues
Key Concepts / Terms: Freedom, authoritarianism, politico-economic model, macro / micro economics, traditional economy, command economy, market economy, mercantilism, capitalism, capitalist development state, democratic welfare capitalism,...
UNIT 6: China, India, Japan, Russia, Germany, US – Comparison
Examination of World Societal Models and Corresponding Level of Development: Model of the Interactions between the Physical World, Society, and the Economy What is the relationship between the physical world, society, and the economy in producing a highly...
UNIT 5: Collective Security
Have Collective Security agreements and arrangements effectively ended the practice of nations attempting large scale military aggression against other countries? Is the long history of larger, more powerful countries invading smaller, weaker, neighboring lands...
UNIT 4: Introduction to Nationalism and Imperialism
Are the U. S. Constitution’s laws and protections extended to wherever our government or military flies or plants the American Flag? QCC OBJECTIVE 4 - Compares nationalism to globalism. (BST-1, 2, 3, 4, 13, 14, QBE - 54: AF / AM 4-1: Define nationalism and globalism...
UNIT 3: Intellectual Equality of All Racial Groups
I was a child of the 1950’s which was not as simple a decade of “happy days” as people so fondly remember them. The major U. S. problems were the Soviet – U.S. Cold War struggle, the southern resistance to de-segregation that fostered racial...
UNIT 2: Historical Trends and Cycles
History and Geography are two of the most important social science disciplines for understanding the workings of our world. When we want to know something about an event or location, we usually ask; “What happened? Where is it?” Our answers are generally applied to...
UNIT 1: Geographical Literacy
AIM: Establish a basic standard of geographical literacy for secondary students. Please note: the maps displayed on this page are courtesy of: Daniel Feher www.freeworldmaps.net Japanese and Korean eighth graders meet this challenge of geographical literacy – American...
International Relations – Global Studies Curriculum
In 1985, I was assigned to teach my first senior level, International Relations course. I was informed that no high school level text existed but was free to shape the curriculum as I felt best. I welcomed the opportunity and armed with generous Xerox machine...
Video: Northside High School of Arts & Soviet Youth Visa Exchange Dec 22, 1989 – Jan 6, 1990
Tour Show Performances in Russia and Ukraine - Moscow Aviation Institute, Sponsor: A Dom Fusco Production https://arnoldheller.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/one-moment-in-time-2.mp4 Other Links: Mainor School of Economics, Tallinn, Estonia – USIA Grant Fulbright ACIE...
Dr. John Goodlad, Educational Leadership, Curriculum & Instruction
Dr. John I. Goodlad, one of America’s most prominent educators, began his professional career at the most basic level: teaching in a one room schoolhouse. For there he worked his way up the professional ladder by teaching every grade level possible. He has been the...
Values Clarification 2: Four Lessons in Values and Drug Education
Elementary Level: The Growing Child and Search for Personal Values To the Parent: Drug education at the third and fourth grade level is controversial and questionable. The normal reaction is; “That’s too young.” “What is that guy crazy?” “No way there going to teach...
Values Clarification 1: American Perceptions of Futurism, Change, Technology, and Politics
As a child, I grew up thinking that we Americans took for granted that the future would always be better for the next generation. I was taught to believe that the advance of knowledge and benefits of galloping technology would improve our lives. We were imbued with a...
Gateshead College, Newcastle, England, UK
Gateshead College is located in Gateshead, England, just across the Tyne River from the larger and richer Newcastle. A sister city of Atlanta since 1977, Newcastle overshadows Gateshead and the other small cities occupying the Tyne’s banks roughly stretching from its...
1999 Keizai Koho Center Fellows Study Tour of Japan
The Keizai Koho Center Fellowship is one of the most desirable and prestigious awards that a social studies teacher can receive. One major benefit is the cost of touring Japan which is very expensive for public school teachers without trust funds to do. The award...
Lincoln International Academy, Managua, Nicaragua
Background: During the 1995 – 1996 school year, the IBP / ACTCo – Atlanta Caribbean Trading Company – experienced numerous price hikes from Caribbean crafts suppliers that...
American School, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The Atlanta - Rio de Janeiro Sister City Committee was organized in 1978 as an initiative of the former late Mayor, Maynard Jackson, to expand trade links with Latin America. Many Atlantans, through tourism or Brazilian educational...
German Business Schools Program: Frankfurt (LES), Berlin (AWO, SCO)
Ludwig Erhardt Schule, Frankfurt, Germany Alfred Wegener Oberschule, Berlin, Germany Sophie Charlotte Gymnasium, Berlin, Germany By 2003, the IBP network of partner schools might have been the...
Terry Fox Secondary, Port Coquitlam, BC, Canada
IBP partner schools were connected by courageous teams of administrators and teachers - courageous because of the risks they were willing to take to provide their students with innovative curriculum and special learning opportunities. The team at Terry Fox Secondary,...
Atlanta – Salcedo, Dominican Republic, Sister City Committee
Mr. Victor Ramirez, Chair, since 1996. I first met Mr. Victor Ramirez when he addressed the Atlanta Sister Cities Commission in late 1996. The President of the Dominican Republic, who had grown up in Salcedo located in the central highlands, had visited Atlanta the...
Kwungbuk High School, Daegu, Korea
Atlanta – Daegu Sister City Committee web page – Dr. John Lee, Chair The IBP is exported to South Korea: As the North Atlanta IBP collaborations with sister cities spread from Jamaica (Montego Bay), Trinidad (Port-of-Spain), Brazil (Rio de Janeiro), Dominican Republic...
Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, Business Schools Program
First official Atlanta - POS Sister City Committee web page. The renewal of the North Atlanta High – Montego Bay High partnership, its successful formation of sister IBP programs / joint projects, and program transportability, began to interest the ASCC...
Nzimbu Brown, SVG, Goatskin and Banana Leaf Artist
I met Nzimbu Browne at the 1993 Harmony Hall Crafts Fair in Ocho Rios – he was from the McKies Hill section of Kingstown located on the island of St. Vincent in the Grenadines. This small island group is part of the Leeward and Windward chains that stretch across the...
Montego Bay High School for Girls, Jamaica
It is hard to explain why certain schools, even with limited financial resources, possess qualities that make it successful academically. Furthermore, they are able to dream big goals, manage huge projects, and more amazingly, make them happen. These schools have...
IBP ACTCo Evolution Part 3
If there was a “game changer” for the IBP, it was the Warrior Warehouse School Store which provided a tangible and symbolic asset / icon and a steadier income stream. The store’s main benefits were to move the retail operation out of the classroom, serve as a...
IBP / ACTCo Components & Evolution Part II
The business plan is the blueprint for developing any business - sound management the key to success / profitability. A student run enterprise is an effective learning tool for experiential education applications. However, how is the student-run business / tax exempt...