Wednesday, I visited the Western Academy Beijing. It is a preK-12 international school here in China which means that all the students who attend must have a foreign passport. In other words, they are from another country other than China. They have a campus with an elementary school, middle school, and high school. They also have a separate designing arts building that the middle and high school share. It is a beautiful campus with amazing technology. This picture at the left is one of the 4th grade classrooms we visited. The students were doing a writer's workshop in preparation for a publishing party they are having tomorrow. I asked a few students what the were writing about and one was doing a fable, a couple of the boys were writing a menu, and another girl was doing a poem. They were very involved in what they were doing and were composing their writing on their Macbooks, which they each had one. The school had many many resources for wonderful collaboration and technology work. High school students pay a tuition of around $30,000 a year to attend this school, and elementary student's tuition is slightly less. Most of the teachers were also from various countries around the world.
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