"We are excited to help Belle Haven Elementary," said David Bohannon II,
President and CEO of the Bohannon Foundation .org or call 650.

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"ePALS is introducing
many Chinese students to authentic English and will help teachers in China use
web-based language teaching more effectively.

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"ePALS helps my students practice English, " said Yaodong Chen, an English
teacher at Guangxi University of Technology, who has used ePALS to connect
500 Chinese students with English-speaking students.epals.9369.

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He will announce expansion of the existing ePALS'
network between Chinese schoolrooms and 55,000 English-speaking schools using
their multi-lingual, "protected school environment" technology. The Partnership is
prevention focused with an emphasis on preparing children for kindergarten,
ensuring that children are academically successful by third grade, and
building the capacity of local communities to meet the needs of vulnerable
children and their families.

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Full-service or "Community" schools are rooted in a rich tradition of
linking education and the community.

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leader in school safe email, eMentoring and web-browsing technology for the
K-12 education market. The overwhelming majority of its 757 students come
from low-income households (90 percent of its students qualified for the
free and reduced cost lunch program). Peninsula Partnership for Children, Youth and
Families is a division of Peninsula Community Foundation.

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About The Third National Contest of Innovation and Practices of
Information Technologies for K-12 Education / Principal's Reform
Conference
This conference explores students' and teachers' creativity and develops
abilities in technology education. They are open to students, families,
and the community before, during and after school , seven days a week, all
year long.

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This program is designed to
help the parents, teachers, administrators and community create a program
that will specially address the educational issues of Belle Haven ."

"Receiving this first funding from Bohannon Foundation is a critical first
step in launching our Community School initiative in San Mateo County,"
explained Erica Wood, Executive Director of Peninsula Partnership.8222 or
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project will bring together key partners , such as parents, teachers, school
administrators, city and county government and other agencies needed to
create the conditions necessary for all children to learn and succeed.

About Peninsula Partnership

The Peninsula Partnership for Children, Youth and Families is a
public/private interdisciplinary effort to improve the well-being of young
children from birth to age eight in San Mateo County.

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The pilot project consists of a planning and
implementation phase set to kick-off on February 24, 2005.

Currently, Belle Haven is considered a lower performance school by the
state of California. More than 70% of the heavily Latino
student body are learning English for the first time.

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NEW YORK, On April 16th, ePALS Classroom Exchange
Chairman Tim DiScipio will deliver a keynote speech at The Third National
Contest of Innovation and Practices of Information Technologies for K-12
Education / Principal's Reform in Xi'an, China.

They may offer lesson plans , classroom activities, art or craft ideas, educational games, discussion topics, reading comprehension exercises, or other information that could be used to observe Cinco de Mayo in the classroom setting .

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It will revolutionize EFL
(English as a Foreign Language) in China.

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The conference is sponsored by
the Chinese Ministry of Education, hosted by Net Time and co-sponsored by the
National Association of Innovations, the Government of Shan'xi Province, and
the Department of Education of Shan'xi Province.

CONTACT:
Sheila Strickland
ePALS Classroom Exchange, Inc.

PRESS RELEASE Bohannon Foundation Awards $250 000 to Belle Haven Elementary School

Only 10% of the
school's third graders were reading at grade level as measured by
standardized tests. For more
information please contact the Bohannon Foundation at 650.345.bohannon@ddbo.

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"It's an honor to keynote this important educational conference," said
DiScipio.
The Bohannon Foundation has awarded a
three-year grant of $250,000 to the Peninsula Partnership for Children,
Youth and Families, a division of Peninsula Community Foundation. "These are great kids and
they deserve a great education and future.

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About ePALS
Founded in 1996 , ePALS Classroom Exchange (http://www. ePALS also maintains the largest online collaborative
classroom network connecting 4.: 1 (888) 770-3333 x127
Email: sstrickland@epalscorp.
The funding will be used to help create one of this region's first
"full-service" schools at Menlo Park's Belle Haven Elementary School,
providing a comprehensive approach to improve student achievement and
education programs."

The goals of this project are to improve student performance and
attendance, create a positive and safe learning environment for children,
increase parent involvement as well as to better coordinate health and
social services so that teachers are free to teach.

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They provide the highest quality instruction, together with a
wide range of supports, services and after-school activities , while
building a high level of parental and community participation in children's
learning. The project also aims
to contribute to a greater sense of community both with the school and
within the neighborhood. Bohannon Foundation

The Bohannon Foundation, founded by the Bohannon family , provides support
to local causes in the areas of education, health care and youth.

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ePALS Co-Founder to Keynote Education Conference in Xi'an China

"We're making significant progress toward building a global network,
unencumbered by borders, that provides a safe, teacher-supervised environment
for eLearning. With 1,500 to 2,000 new schools registering on our network
every month, ePALS continues to be a main factor driving the expansion of
large-scale, global classroom collaboration.

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For more
information about the Partnership, visit www.358.

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6 million students and teachers in 191
countries.

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All sites should also be geared toward classroom teachers.

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Student activities at the conference will
include Chinese knowledge competition of Net, English knowledge competition ,
Computer Drawing competition, Homepage Design, Programming, Practices of
Educational Technology and Integrated Curriculum, and IT Innovations.pcf.

All Cinco de Mayo sites included in this category must be in English.

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Observed the fifth day of May, Cinco de Mayo marks the victory of the Mexican Army over the French at the Battle of Puebla in 1862.

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DiScipio will present ePALS' school-safe email , eMentoring technology, and
global cross-cultural classroom network of 102,000 registered schools and
classrooms in 191 countries.

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