GRODNO, 26 July (BelTA) – Grodno secondary school No. 32 and a school from Sacramento, USA will tightly cooperate in teaching Belarusian, BelTA learned from Zoya Kulesha, Deputy Chairwoman of the Grodno City Executive Committee.
Opportunities for cooperation between education institutions in Belarus and the USA were revealed after Larisa Gonchar, director of the school based in Sacramento, USA, a former native of Belarus, met with representatives of the Grodno city administration. Larisa Gonchar noted that families originating in Belarus are interested in getting their children to know their native language.
Zoya Kulesha said that cooperation had been spurred by the visit of Grodno Mayor Mechislav Goi to the USA. He visited the school and presented a set of textbooks in Belarusian to the educational institution. “At present both we and representatives of the school in Sacramento are interested in advancing cooperation in this direction,” noted the Deputy Chairwoman of the Grodno City Executive Committee.
At a roundtable session representatives of the two schools exchanged their experience and shared modern methods of teaching Belarusian. This kind of cooperation will become regular. Relations between the schools may further develop via exchange programs for students and teachers, via the implementation of joint educational projects.
Larisa Gonchar also met with representatives of the Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno. The discussion focused on opportunities for mutually beneficial cooperation in the area of education.
