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...

                                                                                              Background: During the 1995 – 1996 school year, the IBP / ACTCo – Atlanta Caribbean Trading Company – experienced numerous price hikes from Caribbean crafts suppliers that...

                                 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...

                                                                    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...

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,...

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...

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...

  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...

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...