Teacher Project Search • $12 Million in Grants • 3,500 of America's Top Educators • 113 Countries Traveled Search our Fellows database to learn more. Follow a Fellow Read about our fellow's journeys through their blogs. Erin Collins (NYC) takes us inside a UN refugee camp in Nepal, where some of her Brooklyn International High School students once lived, to gain a better understanding about their transition and prior schooling. Otise! ("Greetings from Ghana.") Springfield Renaissance School's Jessica Wood and Beth Adel introduce us to the people, schools and cocoa plantations of Ghana and Burkina Faso to answer the question - Chocolate: Sweet or Bitter? You decide as you watch these teachers research fair trade cocoa and shea cooperatives, gathering resources for a curriculum centered on consumer goods and labor practices. Forget Tour de France, we’re watching the Tour de Javier! In the name of science and math, Javier Velazquez (Chicago) is bicycling from Oregon to Missouri to capture real-life data for classroom models at Julia Ward Howe Elementary. He's made it past the Continental Divide, avoiding lightening and grizzly bears. Read along and cheer him on. 2006 ELS Fellow Shannon Hillman explored the relationship between select European canals and their surrounding communities in order to create a school wide expedition that would assist the city in a Erie Canal Revitalization Project. At the 2010 National ELS conference this year Hillman's students from 2006-2007, then 6th graders, gave the keynote address and presented on the important work they did to revitalize their city. Click here to watch.