Student Exchange

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...

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,...

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...

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...

Super – Exchange V: Part 2

Super-Exchange V: The Greatest Student Exchange in History – Part 2: More information about the greatest international event in APS History. Official Atlanta Public Schools Press Release: 2000-2001 ACTCo / Warrior Warehouse Monthly Sales & Expenditures – SE V...