Free Virtual Exchange Program for High School Students

[Kate Loughlin]

📣Calling all high school students - join us for The Experiment Digital's upcoming virtual exchange program!

🌎The Experiment Digital: English-Spanish Language Exchange is a FREE, 8-week, virtual experience that convenes high school students throughout Latin America and the United States to practice their target language. 

Program Details

Program dates: March 2, 2026 – April 26, 2026

Applications are currently being accepted - apply today!

📅 Final admissions deadline: February 2, 2026 

💬Experienced bilingual facilitators (including both native English and Spanish speakers) lead the program, managing both large and small group sessions and providing feedback on participants’ self-paced activities. 

⏰The program is comprised of a mix of synchronous and asynchronous activities with a weekly time commitment of 2-4 hours. 

🔎To learn more about our language exchange program see the attached flyer or click here to view our recorded info session!

Kate Loughlin | Partnerships Officer  The Experiment Digital 1015 15th Street NW | Floor 9 | Washington, DC 20005 U.S. Toll Free: 800.345.2929

[Paul Loeb]

Hi K-12 Service Learning folks. Many of you know and may even have taught my Soul of a Citizen book and my political hope book, The Impossible Will Take a Little While. After 125,000 copies in print, Basic Books will publish the new edition of the latter Oct 13, ISBN 9781541608849. It seems perfect for a time when students in particular often feel helpless and overwhelmed by the world, and desperate for hope.

 

The book’s new version keeps the powerful voices of writers like Nelson Mandela, Vaclav Havel, Desmond Tutu, Maya Angelou, Pablo Neruda, Parker Palmer, Jonathan Kozol, Mary Pipher, Marian Wright Edelman, and Alice Walker. New essays include how South Koreans stopped a December 2024 coup, Norwegian teachers successfully defied the Nazis, Alexei Navalny resisted from Putin’s prisons, and ordinary Chicago citizens created a model for cities to resist ICE. Plus the real Lord of the Flies story, lessons by Heather Cox Richardson from America’s anti-slavery movement, Bill McKibben on how the global explosion of renewable energy, and National Book Award winning novelist Jesmyn Ward on protest and grief. You can get a sense of the pieces from the attached. I’ve also completely updated my ten section introductions to speak to the current difficult historical moment. Those who’ve read the new edition find it a powerful antidote to despair.

I thought you might want to:

• Preorder copies and encourage your school library to preorder as well.
• If you think you might teach the book, sign up to preorder an academic exam copy, although it would have to be a context where students enrolled in the course buy the book , as otherwise it doesn’t work for the publisher. As many of you know, it teaches wonderfully and I’ve just updated the classroom study questions.
• If your school might be interested in bringing me in to speak, please reach out to the relevant people, or email me for information.

I look forward to giving you a resource to keep you and others going.

Paul

Att: Summaries of the essays, comments on the book and on my speaking dates