July 9-July 12

Pre-Departure Orientation,
Washington, D.C.

Carlyle Hotel
Polo India Club
AED Center for International Exchanges
South African Embassy

July 13-July 17 - FOCI: Putting it All into Context; Access to Education & Curriculum; Language

Pretoria, Gauteng

Schoongesich Guest House and Conference Centre
Freedom Park
Brooklyn Mall
Apartheid Museum
Maponya Mall



Voortrekker Monument
Hector Pietersen Museum
Constitutional Hill Precinct/Constitutional Court
News Cafe, Johannesburg Civic Centre in Braamfontein
UMALUSI
Diewerf
HF Verwoerd School

July 18

University of Pretoria, Mamelodi Campus

Entabeni Safari Conservancy - Lakeside Lodge

July 19-July 20

Game Drive to Pedi Cultural Village
Blyde River Canyon & Panorama Route, Mpumalanga

Blyde River Canyon
Moholoholo Ya Mati Camp or Zuleika
Mohloholo Rehabilitation Centre
Panarama Route
Mpumalanga's Waterfalls
God's Window
Bourke's Luck potholes
Three Rondavels
Harry's Pancake
Walkersons

July 21: FOCUS-Academic Literacy

Garankuwa, Gauteng

University of Limpopo, Garankuwa Campus
The Courtyard Rosebank Hotel

July 22-25

Johannesburg, Gauteng

July 22
Ivory Park School, Gauteng Department of Education
We will visit a community which took the responsibility of establishing a school for it's children upon itself. The Ivory Park community developed as an informal settlement and is now a sprawling township on the north of Johannesburg.

Reception at the Residence of the Consul General Steven P. Coffman

July 23
Harmony Primary School
Presentation: "Parent Teacher Participation in School Governance"
Lesson Observation

July 24: BREAK AWAY VISITS

Option 1:
Art Therapy Centre

Option 2:
Marange Centre at Wits University
Lecture "Advancing Mathematics & Science Education in Under-Developed Schools"

Option 3:
Sci Bono Museum

Option 4:
Gauteng Academy of the Arts

Option 5:
CIDA Campus

Option 6:
"The re-writing of our history"
Lecture at South African History Archives at Wits University

July 25: CURRICULUM PROJECT DAY options

Johannesburg
University of the Witwatersrand (WITS)
University of Johannesburg (UJ)
Vaal University of Technology (VUT)
University of South Africa (UNISA) (eg. Reading & Writing Centre)
Johannesburg Art Gallery
Origins Centre at WITS
South African History Archives at Wits University

Pretoria
University of Pretoria(UP)
Tshwane Universiyt of Technology (TUT)
University of South Africa (UNISA)
Higher Education South Africa (HESA)
Voortrekker Monument

July 26

Soweto

Cradle of Humankind
Sterkfontein Caves
Drum Cafe Session in Iron-Age Kraal
Rosebank Rooftop market
Regina Mundi Church (Bishop Desmond Tutu's church)