Area teachers head overseas for learning

CHAMPAIGN – Three foreign language teachers at Centennial High School will be practicing their Spanish and getting a look at how teachers run their classes in Grenada, Spain, during the next 10 days.

Stacy McAndrew and Amy Westfield, who teach Spanish, and Linda Smith Tabb, who teaches French at Centennial and also teaches at Parkland College, leave Sunday. The Study Abroad trip is part of a University of Illinois online master's program, Global Studies in Education, in which they are all enrolled.

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