tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46246199214523219062024-03-12T20:36:04.254-04:00Rustic Pathways Educators Network'Where Learning outside the Classroom Matters'Les Millard (Wereta)http://www.blogger.com/profile/07288171898525468288noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624619921452321906.post-31440745933473916172018-09-09T22:49:00.003-04:002018-12-12T04:06:24.273-05:00EdNet Welcome<h2 class="title" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px -15px; padding: 0.6em 15px 0.5em; position: relative;">
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As global-minded, innovative educators you have joined the Rustic Pathways Educators Network (</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>RP <span class="il">EdNet</span></b></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">) community bringing together people like you, working at international schools around the world.</span></h2>
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<span style="color: black; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">By being a part of this exciting community of forward-thinking educators we will work together to ensure that trips that we send teachers and students on maximise the learning/service outcomes. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you are happy with 'Shopping Trips' or 'Tourist Trips' then perhaps this network is not for you. We believe that trips must have a sound and authentic return on investment for, not only schools and parents, but more importantly, for the students. The investment in time, effort and the financial outlay has to add value as part of the students development and growth in the ever-changing demands for well rounded global citizens. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The </span><span style="color: black; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>RP <span class="il">EdNet</span></b></span><span style="color: black; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is designed for you to to share your thoughts, experiences and challenges which will ensure that Rustic Pathways can stay up-to-date with current school trends and continue to provide the quality experiences that many of you have already enjoyed.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is a network for you and what you want from it. Are you thinking about reviewing the structure of your trips programme? Do you want to find out how other schools run their programmes? Are you having challenges enthusing your colleagues to lead trips? Do you want to know more about service activities? Is your programme something that you are really proud of and would like to share with others?</span></div>
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<li><b>Berger Kaye, Cathryn, <u>The Complete Guide to Service Learning</u> 2nd edition 2004</b> ISBN-13 978-1-57542-345-6 Free Spirit Publishing</li>
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<li>This book is the cornerstone of many schools service programmes. Cathy is a renowned professional development presenter in many international schools. This book provides excellent examples of connecting service learning with school-based curriculum - recommended by Les</li>
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<li>Malcolm is a practicing head of school in Hong Kong. This book is as a result of the work he did completing his doctorate. He gives great insight into the experiential learning world with great reference to the 'why' and 'how'. This is a great reference book that broadens the thinking and challenges schools to ensure the effectiveness of their programmes for the benefit of their students. Malcolm gave a lot of insight into his thinking as the guest presenter at the 1st RP EdNet conference - recommended by Les </li>
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</b></span><span style="color: #333333;">If you want to work identifying how to links trips to your taught curriculum, service or want to identify personal skill development that will 'grow' your students connect with your Rustic Pathways team. We are more than happy to work with you as we have with many other schools. If you can show how experiential trips have direct links with the curriculum parents will be on board. We provide much of the heavy lifting so that you as busy educators are not adding to your load.</span><b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: #333333;">As we all know, creating authentic service trips is not always that easy to find, for either teachers or students. If you have any great service activities that you have been involved in or would like to see, respond in the comments below. If you are wanting more ideas also use the comments below or the forums to ask the questions. </span></span></span><br />
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</b></span>Talk with our team about our one pager flyers. These are quick read information pages that outlines specific details that you will find useful in your school decision-making for your trips programme. Following are the published 'one pagers':</span><br />
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IB Diploma Experiential Trips<br />
Global Learner Experiential Trips<br />
Lower Secondary Exp. Trips - Global Perspectives<br />
IB MYP Experiential Trips<br />
RP EdNet<br />
School Experiential Trips Structure</td>
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IB MYP Experiential Learning: Creative Example(2 pager)<br />
How to Choose a Program<br />
Critical Issues Program<br />
Community Service<br />
Rustic Pathways Student Travel Programs<br />
Learning Through Travel with Rustic Pathways</td></tr>
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<i>.... and more. We are constantly creating new one pagers </i> <i> </i> If you don't see something that you want listed contact your Rustic Pathways teamAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624619921452321906.post-19072220010103381632017-11-04T15:16:00.001-04:002018-09-09T23:42:58.269-04:00General Discussion Forum<span style="color: blue;">Have a comment that you want to share with other passionate experiential learning educators, with us or to express a thought? We welcome comments that can help others in the network </span><br />
<a name='more'></a>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624619921452321906.post-80055462709744818042017-11-03T05:45:00.004-04:002019-02-06T18:23:49.450-05:00EdNet News29 November, 2018<br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">An exciting fact is that a number of participants who were part of the first conference in Udonthani, Thailand are returning for this conference. This is testimony to how much value that the conferences have for schools and individual educators in the area of experiential learning.</span></div>
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<li>'I wanted an idea of how to structure a programme, and got this and more.' (Nord Anglia Hong Kong)</li>
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<li>'As during the first one, I learned a lot of great stuff that was applicable right away upon my lengthy return.' (Korea IS)</li>
<li>'<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Even better than the first!' (American School of Dubai)</span></li>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial";"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Following is the proposed agenda below for the conference. Many of the sessions/workshops will be led by educators from within the EdNet group who have demonstrated some expertise or strong interest in specific experiential learning aspects.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">17:00 - 18:00</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Free time</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">18:00</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dinner followed by social activities. Laos Dancing</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">20:00 ???</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Transport to Guest House</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Saturday 8 December</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">7.00</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pick up</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Guest House</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">7:15 - 8:00</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Breakfast</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Base</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">8:00 - 12:00</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Service activity and reflection</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Community</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">12:00 - 13:30</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lunch</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">13:30 - 14:00</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Week of Action - Service Learning and Student Agency</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">14:00 - 16:00</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Open forum</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How do we get buy from parents and students? </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What is the focus/purpose of our trips? </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Are all students required to go? </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Do all trips happen in a specific week? </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What about exam year groups? </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Base</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">16:00 - 17:00</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Profile of an experiential program</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Base</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">17:00 - 18:00</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Personal Reflection Time</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Base</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">18:00 - </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Laos Dinner in town (Thamnak Lao Restaurant)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Luang Prabang</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Transport Home</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sunday 9 December</span></div>
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Les will be attending the EARCOS conference in Kuala Lumpur 25-27 October. He recently attended the IB Conference in Vienna and got lots of interest in the experiences that Rustic Pathways provides. Have a chat with Les at the exhibitors table at the conference. Call by to see him, he would be really interested in talking with you.<br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It will take the form of presentations, discussion groups, hands on service activity and of course, very importantly, social interaction! The conference is designed to bring together EdNet educators to discuss experiential learning issues relating to your schools, have expert educators lead presentations. The goal is by sharing knowledge we can as a network provide the best possible learning experiences. </span></div>
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<li><i><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Surpassed expectations in terms of what I learned over the weekend</span></i></li>
<li><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">It far exceeded my expectations. I was worried about how much I would get from a weekend conference </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">that involved so much time spent traveling. I was also expecting much more of a sales pitch. All of this </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">meant I was reluctant to go at first.</span></i></span></li>
<li><i><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">It was great learning experience and a platform to discuss ideas for service learning.</span></i></li>
<li><i><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I did not have expectations besides the schedule of conference, enjoyed the discussion generated from the room full of experts. Malcom added a lot to the conference, wonderful introductory speaker.</span></i></li>
<li><i><span style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: blue;">Thanks for all of the organisation and hospitality</span></span></i></li>
<li><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: #f1c232;">Thanks for inviting me. I was sceptical and ended up loving </span></i></li>
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<li><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: #f1c232;">the weekend and came back to Hong Kong with a lot of good ideas and feeling inspired!</span></i></li>
<li><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: purple;">Would like to think about how students can be better prepared for service learning trips, are there activities or discussions that can support students’ leaning before departing on these trips. What are ways that leadership opportunities can be further developed?</span></i></li>
<li><i style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN" style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: red;">I appreciated that the weekend didn't feel like a sales pitch but at the same time it could have been useful as some point to have heard about some of the programmes offered by RP and maybe to have heard from teachers that had been on them - they could even have presented about a recent trip their school had taken. On the other hand this risks turning the weekend into a sales pitch and diluting the content - it's a tough balance...</span></span></i></li>
<li><i style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN" style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #660000;">Great to better understand what RP is about and the people involved with RP are educators who understand the context of these service learning trips on offer.</span></span></i></li>
<li><i style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN" style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #674ea7;">It was useful to have face time with some of the organizers and better understand philosophy. Also good to speak to other educators and learn how they tweak programmes, what their students' experiences of RP expeditions has been.</span></span></i></li>
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<li>EARCOS, Kuala Lumpur October - we will have a table there exhibiting so feel free to call by for a chat with Evan</li>
<li>IB Conference, Vienna - October - Matija will be present as a participant. Look out for her and connect with her</li>
<li>IB Conference Hong Kong - March - Les will be there as a participant but he could also be presenting a workshop. More on this later</li>
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<li>At Rustic Pathways we are always finding ways to improve what we can offer to open new experiences for students and educators. Find out more about our new programmes for 2019 <a href="https://rusticpathways.com/inside-rustic/online-magazine/introducing-new-rustic-pathways-programs-for-2019" target="_blank"><i><<read here>></i></a></li>
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<li><b>Maori Culture and Service</b></li>
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<li>This is a trip packed with service and Maori culture rich experiences. Students will learn the Maori culture from local kaumatua (elders) and students while experiencing village life. You will work with the local tribes people on projects in the community. A feature of this trip is that students will have hands on experience of traditional hangi cooking (cooking in the ground) and mahi harakeke (flax weaving)</li>
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<li>Partnering with a government supported environment and conservation organisation. They have a number of projects that they are running. A great service opportunity. Based around the sunny Bay of Plenty. Bay of Plenty is just that, plenty of opportunities for students!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<li><b>The Domain of Ruaumoko (Maori God of all in the underworld e.g. volcanoes, thermal activity etc)</b></li>
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<li><b>Journey to Middle Earth</b></li>
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