Key Milestones
1999-2000 Initiating professional meetings and seminars with a small group of Jewish, Christian and Muslim educators and English teachers and arranging regional students’ exchange delegation.
The first steps of the dialog project with exchange of letters between Jewish and Muslim classes- sent with the teachers’ home fax machines.
Founding Language Connections as a non-profit organization and organizing a multicultural team of educators all working on a voluntary basis.
2003 Presenting the multicultural dialog model and its implementation at UNESCO international conference on intercultural education, Finland
2003 -2004 Implementations of several pilot projects partially sponsored by the Belgium government, with Arab and Jewish elementary school students and with a group of Palestinian children from Gaza and Rafah.
The beginning of a three – year “proof of concept” project among high school students from a Jewish school in Tel Aviv and a Muslim school in Jaffa.
Dialog model workshops in East Jerusalem for Palestinian and Israeli teachers.
2005 participating as consultants in EU three- year INTCULTNET Project, connecting university students from five European countries.
Dialog model international workshop in Tel Aviv for teachers from the Czech Republic, Finland and Serbia.
Implementation of the dialog model among Jewish Israeli and American youth in San Francisco.
2004 – 2007 participating in Apple sponsored international educational online project with 17 classes from all over the world. (going on for the fourth year)
2006 – 2007 Online presentation of the dialog model to Kita City board of education (Japan).
Beginning a series of online meetings and video conferences with students and teachers from Japan, China, Peru, USA, Germany, Italy, Australia and New Zealand.
Dialog model workshop in Assykkala Finland with Finnish, Czech, Serbian, Israeli (both Jewish and Arab) and Palestinian teachers.
Two high-school classes from Finland join Language Connections project.
Prof. Tapio Varis – is supervising a Ph.D. research evaluating Language Connections’ dialogue model.
October 2007 – 2008 Gal Springman participates as an invited speaker in MIT LINC Conference in Amman, on the Middle East e-learning initiative, together with Palestinian students participating in Language Connections’ project.
Launching Language Connections’ Jerusalem CTnetCity project, connecting Muslim high school students from Jabel Mukkaber with Jewish high school students from West Jerusalem.
A school from Kita City , Japan, joins Language Connections activities,
A school from Hong Kong and a class of university students from the Shanghai, China, both join Language Connections’ Snowblog program.
2009-2010 Launching the global version of Snowblog Ct net city