2008/2009 - Polish Year in Israel & the first Polish-Israel iEARN twin conference - 13.10-22.10 2008

Israel-Poland
twin Education Workshops
Korczak's Educational Methods

Place: Poland
Date: 13.10.2008 - 22.10.2008
Wrocław - Łódź - Warsaw

The Program

13.10. (Monday) - arrival to Warsaw-Wroclaw

20:00 Welcome Meeting
Meeting with teachers from J. Korczak Primary School no 61
Piwnica Świdnicka - the oldest restaurant in Europe, a stylish restaurant which serves traditional Polish cuisine

14.10.-15.10 (Tuesday-Wednesday)
‘Wrocław - the meeting place'
Wrocław. Edyta Stein House, Angelus Silesius Meeting House, Primary School no 61..


14.10.(Tuesday)
Conference ‘International cooperation - exchanging experiences'

Invitations to

9:30-12:00
Primary School no 61 named 'Janusz Korczak'
8 Skarbowcow street,

School celebration ‘Teacher's Day' and
'Janusz Korczak educational methods' workshops part I
Leading Mrs Grażyna Żak, vice-director
program includes planting peace tree.

14:00-15.00
'Edyta Stein House - Intercultural Dialogue Center'
Mr Dominik Ptak, Director of ‘Edyta Stein House'
Wrocław, street Nowowiejska 38
http://www.edytastein.org.pl/

Meeting with teachers from The Polish Janusz Korczak Association /Lower Silesia region

15:30-18:00
Cultural program - prepared by professional guider Mrs Katarzyna Potocka Brygier - includes:
Visiting
- Ostrów Tumski and Cathedral
- Botanical Garden
- National Museum and Panorama Raclawicka
- Market Square with CityHall,
- University building with Aula Leopoldina
- Ossolineum Library
- restaurants - 'Dwór Polski', Piwnica Świdnicka - a stylish restaurants which serves traditional Polish cuisine, famous European meeting places (presidents, artists)

15.10 (Wednesday)
‘Janusz Korczak educational methods' workshops part II
Sobotka. Primary School no 1 named Janusz Korczak

School celebration ‘Teacher's Day'
and ‘‘Janusz Korczak educational methods' - workshops part II

9:00-13.00
Invitation to
Primary School no 1, street Swidnicka 20
http://www.sp1sobotka.pl/

Leading:
Mrs Ewa Białobrzeska - Director of ‘Primary School nr 1'
Mrs Dorota Świst - vice Director of ‘Primary School nr 1'
Mr Jacek Krogel - Director of the ‘Polish Janusz Korczak Association'
Mrs Ruty Hotzen - country coordinator ‘iEARN - Israel'

Cultural program includes:
-visiting Primary school, meeting with teachers and students
-visiting castle and museum
http://www.sleza.sobotka.net/index.php?go=27
http://www.mapofpoland.net/Sobotka,photo,1,1703.html

15:00-17:00 (Wroclaw)
Invitation to
'Angelus Silesius (European) Meeting House'
Wrocław, street W. Stysia 16a
http://www.silesius.org.pl/?lang=2

- UNESCO Heritage tour in Wroclaw - Centennial Hall http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centennial_Hall

16.10 - 17.10 (Thursday, Friday)
Jewish Heritage in Poland - Łódź
Łódź. ‘Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage'

Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland
Łódź, street Pomorska 18
Chairman Mrs Malgorzata Burzynska-Keller
http://www.wspolnekorzenie.org.pl

Cultural program includes:
- tour down Piotrkowska Street to Poznanski's Palace, Israel Poznanski's Residence, the Silbersteins' textile factory, Kronsztadt's Palace, Arnold Stiller's Residence, Hertz's Residence,
- Café Tuwim http://www.cafetuwim.com/
- the area of the former Lodz Ghetto and the largest Jewish cemetery in Europe
- documentary film ‘Jewish Heritage in Europe'

18.10 (Saturday)
‘Janusz Korczak educational methods' workshops part III
Warsaw. The Polish Janusz Korczak Association

10:00 - 12:30
‘Janusz Korczak educational methods' workshops part III
Invitation to
The Polish Janusz Korczak Association
Warsaw, street Jaktorowska 6
Korczak Orphanage
http://www.pskorczak.org.pl/

Leading
Mrs Marta Ciesielska and Mr Jacek Krogel - ‘Polish Janusz Korczak Association'
Mrs Ruty Hotzen - country coordinator ‘iEARN - Israel'

Cultural program Warsaw Royal Tour - art, heritage and culture' includes:
-Royal Łazienki Park
-Museum Palace at Wilanów , the baroque residence of King John III Sobieski, the famous conqueror of the Turks at the battle of Vienna in 1683
-Frederick Chopin Park
-Art axibitions and museums

19.10 (Saturday, Sunday)
continuing: ‘Warsaw Royal Tour - art, heritage and culture'
Warsaw. iEARN Poland

iEARN Poland
Country coordinator Mr Marek Grzegorz Sawicki
http://webnews.textalk.com/en/view.phtml?id=1510

a visit to:
-the Old Town (placed on the UNESCO Heritage List), with its churches, palaces and market-place
-the Royal Castle
-the Presidential Palace, Staszic Palace, Ujazdowski Castle, Belvedere Palace Jabłonowski Palace, Sapieha Palace...
http://www.warsawtour.pl/index.php?id=54&;olang=5

20.10 (Monday)
"Poland-Israel Youth Encounters"
Warsaw. Museum of the History of Polish Jews

10.00-12.00
"Poland-Israel Youth Encounters"
Invitation by
organizer: Museum of the History of Polish Jews
place: State Ethnographic Museum, 1 Kredytowa St

Chairman Mr Jacek Olejnik, Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw, street Warecka 4/6
http://www.jewishmuseum.org.pl

13:00-14:00
Visiting the Palace of Culture and Science
http://www.pkin.pl/home/lang,2

14:30-
Cultural program includes:
-historic Warsaw Ghetto area
-the memorial stone in Mila Street at the original location of the bunker of the Jewish fighting organization,
-the Nozyk Synagogue,
-the Memorial to the Heroes of the Ghetto, and the Umschlagplatz, the site of the deportation of the Warsaw Jewish community to Treblinka

21.10 (Tuesday)
Closing Ceremony
Warsaw. iEARN

Closing Ceremony - summary of the Conference
Planning following activities
iEARN

Cultural program includes:
- Zelazowa Wola - Chopin Manor in Żelazowa Wola


22.10. (Wednesday) - departure to Israel /Tel-Aviv

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Organization Commitee
Halina Bednarz - iEARN/Poland (contact: mki@m-szkola.net)
Mrs Ruty Hotzen - country coordinator ‘iEARN - Israel'
Mr Jacek Krogel - Director of the ‘Polish Janusz Korczak Association'