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TEACH Rwanda

Wesley Church Mission Support

Jan Brown and Bill Whipple, members of Wesley Church are working with UNICEF in the TEACH Rwanda mission
TEACH Rwanda is transforming early childhood teacher education in Rwanda. The mission prepares Rwandan teachers to offer young children engaging, meaningful learning experiences. TEACH Rwanda…
  • provides pre-service and in-service professional development
    and resources,
  • equips our Exemplary and Project Schools with creative,
    Rwanda-centric learning materials and furnishings,
  • insists on just 20 children per classroom with two
    well-prepared teachers who implement modern teaching
    strategies, and
  • builds Rwandan early childhood leadership capacity.
Jan Brown (left), Founder TEACH Rwanda

Janet F. Brown, M.Ed., TEACH Rwanda President & Founder, has more than 40 years international experience as a teacher of diverse young children and teacher educator. She has served as Director of Publications for the National Association for the Education of Young Children, Managing Editor for Crayola, and as Editor of Dimensions of Early Childhood published by the Southern Early Childhood Association. She has traveled extensively and began learning about the opportunities for service in Rwanda first-hand in 2010.  Jan and her husband William Whipple IV are delighted to share 5 adult children and 5 grandchildren.

     Listen to a podcast interview with Jan Brown by Linda Buchner, Educate Podcast Host

 

Bill Whipple

William Whipple III, TEACH Rwanda Business Representative, retired in 2014 from a 33-year career as a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist & Certified Diabetes Educator so that he could go to Rwanda for extended lengths of time with his wife Jan and TEACH Rwanda. He finds fascinating the process of implementing high-quality early childhood education (ECE) in Rwanda, where many preschoolers still sit quietly and memorize what the teacher says.

Eager student

He is learning a lot from, Jan, who is the ECE expert, and contributes his own talents, including communicating in French, a passion for teaching English, mentoring, management, and business skills. He loves being able to contribute in a meaningful way, even though he is “very old” according to his Rwandan friends, (a term of respect). He misses his children, grandchildren and friends in the U.S. when spending extended periods of time in Rwanda.

Find out more at TEACH Rwanda website  or TEACH Rwanda Facebook

May 22, 2022



Masking Update for Wesley Church

This week, the CDC moved Northampton County from the “low risk” category to the “high risk” category for COVID-19, bypassing the “medium” category. The CDC’s determinations are based on infection, hospitalization, and mortality rates. At Wesley Church, it is our policy to defer to CDC guidelines. The CDC guidelines for the “high” category are:

   Wear a mask indoors in public

   Stay up to date with COVID-19 vaccines   

   Get tested if you have symptoms

   Additional precautions may be needed for people at high risk for severe illness

For more information, visit https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/your-health/covid-by-county.html

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