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STUDENTS from Floyd Dryden Middle School in Juneau spent a week in Buckland last spring as part of the Forum’s Sister School Exchange (SSE), a program that for almost two decades has built connections between Alaska communities. Funded by the U.S. Department of Education’s Alaska Native Education Program, SSE operates throughout the school year, matching a teacher and five students from a rural community with a teacher and five students from urban Alaska. These teams work through a 6-8 week curriculum on cross-cultural understanding, and then take turns visiting and hosting each other. This year, 12 teams are participating in the exchange from communities as widespread as Utqiaġvik, Juneau, and Scammon Bay. Visits are scheduled between February and May.
