An integral part of our school involves cultural exchanges with teens from other countries.

2010 Italian Exchange (Blog Coming Soon!)

2009 Switzerland Exchange Blog

2008 Berlin, Germany exchange on our student led Blog

2008 France Exchange

  • Our students are involved in an international book club. Along with students from a school in Egypt, CSI students are reading a book by Naguib Mahfouz, a classic Egyptian author. Students communicate on a blog by posting responses to questions and by responding to one another’s postings. Upon completing the Egyptian classic, students will read an American classic to deepen their discussions about cultural similarities and differences.
  • Our journalism students working on our school’s newspaper, The International Insider, invites student editors and contributors from other countries and includes submissions about events in their schools as well as about world events.
  • Through iEARN, CSI students are facilitating an international teen scrapbook project. As part of this project, each student in our school will create a page about him or herself and each advisory group will create a section of the book. Sections will focus on world issues, current events and politics, pop culture, and teen issues. Students from other countries including India, Uganda, and Saudi Arabia will be participating in this CSI student-led project and will share their scrapbooks with all participants. (Read Education Week article.)
  • CSI High School hosts a historic exchange visit from Bahrain—the first time that high school students have come on a US government-sponsored exchange visit. Click here to read student perspectives on this exchange and to view photos.
  • Our Chinese language students have started a blog exchange with students in Shenzhen, China. Our students blog in Chinese as well as English.
  • A Danish basketball team visited our school and participated in conversations with our students about life in Denmark, teen and school issues they face, music they like, and feelings and ideas about world events and politics. Then they played basketball together.

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