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This blog is created by UCPS staff to share our experiences with China. In June, 2010, five of us will travel to China with a US delegation of educators. The trip is coordinated by the College Board and sponsored by HanBan, the Office of Chinese Language Council International. UCPS was invited to attend as members of the Asia Society's Confucius Classroom Network. UCPS was accepted as a member in 2010 as one of twenty school districts or schools in the US to serve as exemplars in Chinese language education.

UCPS staff will travel to Beijing June 21 for a formal introduction to the country. Then they will procede to Jiangsu province west of Shanghai to the city of Nanjing. In Nanjing, they will meet fellow Chinese administrators in their newly established partnership with a Chinese school. The collaboration with Jiangsu province is through a memorandum of understanding between North Carolina and the Department of Education in Jiangsu. The UCPS travelers form part of a delegation from across the state who also have school partnerships in Jiangsu province. This delegation is under the leadeship of the UNC Center for Understanding.