http://orias.berkeley.edu/updates/chinatrippacket2015.pdf 2015 Summer Institute on China Announced Applications are due by February 15, 2015. The Institute of East Asian Studies, UCLA Confucius Institute, San Mateo County Office of Education and Shanghai Jiao Tong University are pleased to announce the 2015 Summer Institute on China. New for this year is our partnership with the Getty Conservation Institute (GCI). With pre-travel sessions being hosted by the UCLA Confucius Institute and the GCI, the program will begin in Los Angeles before leaving for China. The theme "Cultural Crossroads" will focus on Dunhuang and the Mogao Caves, located along the Silk Road, as well as examine other evidence of cross cultural activity found in Shanghai, Xi'an and Beijing. This trip is open to teachers from middle schools and high schools throughout California. We encourage participants from all subject areas. best, debbie Debbie Abilock NoodleTools/NoodleTeach Smart tools, smart research, smart teaching "The true test of intelligence is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do." --John Holt, How Children Fail (1968, p. 271)