Fulbright Exchange Teacher from Uruguay Visits San Juan Elementary School
For three weeks during the month of February, San Juan Elementary School will host Victoria Vazquez, a Fulbright Exchange Teacher from Uruguay. Mrs. Vazquez is an English Teacher from the city of Colonia del Sacramento, the capital of the province of Colonia, in Uruguay. This will be her first visit to the United States and she is looking forward to exchanging educational and cultural ideas and information.
Established in 1946 under legislation introduced the late Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, the Program’s purpose is to build mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the rest of the world.
The Fulbright Program, America’s flagship international educational exchange program, is sponsored by the United States Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Since its inception, the Fulbright Program has exchanged approximately 273,500 people, including 102,900 Americans who have studied, taught or researched abroad and 170,600 students, scholars and teachers from other countries who have engaged in similar activities in the United States. The Program operates in over 150 countries worldwide.
San Juan School has participated in previous international exchanges. Renato Reina, a Two Way Immersion teacher, Silvia Pule, the principal, and Kimberly Hall, a previous teacher and assistant principal at San Juan School and now the principal at Bathgate School, have all participated in the Fulbright Exchange Program.
