HETO Principals

How Can a School Become Involved?

There are many opportunities for your school to be involved with Heart in Education Teacher Outreach. The two main options are:

1.Send traveling teachers to Honduras. Encourage your teachers to participate in the program as a teacher that will travel to Honduras.

2.Collect school supplies for the traveling team. Each year we bring approximately one ton of school supplies that we divide and deliver to the 10 participating Honduran schools. This is a crucial aspect to the program and there is no cost to your school.

3.Financially support Heart in Education Teacher Outreach and a Honduran school. If you are not able to send teachers to Honduras, you can still partner with a Honduran school. Through a financial contribution, your school can partner with a Honduran school and allow the educators to have resources, supplies and ability to further their students education. Beyond this, you establish a relationship between cultures and countries and expose your students to opportunities for service learning as well as learning about the Honduran and Central American culture.

Benefit to Your School

Heart in Education Teacher Outreach is a unique opportunity for schools and teachers; it allows both parts to use their resources and skills in ways that truly benefit others. Participating with HETO exposes your ENTIRE school by:

¬Cross cultural service learning.

¬Allowing your teachers to participate in professional development that is unique, invaluable, and

¬Real learning about the Latino culture

¬There are many ways in which lesson about Honduran culture, history, government, and socio-economic development can be linked to the standards

Upon Return…

Ideally, from the moment school begins in August your school begins preparing for your teachers’ trip and return to Honduras. It is the hope of HETO that traveling teachers create lessons based around their upcoming trip and includes their classes as well as others in the school. When your teachers return we encourage dialogue about what was learned, insight that was gained while gone, thoughts and experiences. We hope that this dialogue happens with the entire faculty and staff, for benefit of all. In addition, the entire school should know what the trip was like and what more can be done to help your partner school. The school should understand what the situation was like, what can be done. If some schools, student groups have been formed, for instance at Zionsville High School formed Operation: Honduras. This is a students run group that raises money, collects shoes, and learns about Honduras encourages their peers that everyone and anyone can impact the education of others.

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