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Педагогічний підхід значно змінився впродовж останніх 50-х років. Майже у всіх штатах дітей приймають до школи у 3 роки (КЗК4 кляси). Ми тепер бачимо, що учні, які розпочали своє шкільництво трилітніми, читають швидше та краще, отримують високі оцінки, вступають до вищих шкіл без труднощів. А діти, які виростають у двомовному оточенні та ходять до перед- шкілля, де вчать одну або дві мови, мають ще кращі успіхи. Узявши ці дослідження під увагу, ми розробляємо однорічний педагогічний плян, щоб допомогти вчителькам та вихователькам “Світличок”. Наші “Світлички” повинні готувати дітей до школи, щоденної і суботньої, і в той самий час защіпляти в них гордість у своєму українстві. Очікую зустрічі з вами під час семінару на XXVIII Конвенції в Трої, Міч., де ми будемо мати нагоду поділитися нашими матеріялами та думками. CHRISTINE R. SHWED, EDUCATION COMMITTEE CHAIR Since its inception in 1925, the Ukrainian National Women’s League of America, has had as one of its main goals the mission to make the world, and in particular American society, aware of Ukraine as an individual and separate nation and Ukrainians as a people with a long history and a diversified culture. Moreover, in 1932, at the Women’s Congress, A. Bojko (from Philadelphia), a UNWLA delegate at the congress, concluded that women of Ukrainian descent in America were neglecting their responsibility to bring up the future generations of children of Ukrainian descent in the spirit of their Ukrainian heritage. She used Marusia Bek (who gave two speeches at this congress in English and in Ukrainian) as an example of how children in America can (and should) be brought up. And thus the seed was sown. Subsequent UNWLA Conventions (IV in 1937, V in 1941, and VII in 1950) proposed resolutions that called for active preservation of our heritage. These resolutions challenged women of Ukrainian descent all over the United States to establish “Ridni Shkoly” and even elementary all day schools and in this fashion protect and promote Ukrainian heritage and spirit among the children bom in this country. And finally in at the X UNWLA Convention, held in 1953, the Education Chair Committee was formed. That same year, the first UNWLA pre-school “Svitlychka” was founded by Branch 33 in Cleveland. After being elected Education Committee Chair at the XXVII Albany Convention, the two main goals I wanted to accomplish were in perfect accord with the information presented in the opening paragraphs of this report. As a woman bom in the United States to Ukrainian immigrant parents, it seems that I have spent my entire life (as all of us do) as an advocate for Ukraine and everything Ukrainian. The establishment of an independent Ukraine has not diminished the need for this advocacy. In 2005,1 embarked on what was for me a monumental task—to serve the UNWLA as Education Committee Chair. Coincidentally, soon after I arrived home from the convention, I was asked to serve on a committee spearheaded by Vera Bej (now a UNWLA member-at-large) to assist in the creation of a textbook for high school students about the Genocide Famine of 1932-1933. The textbook project was initiated in the spring of 2004 by the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America (UCCA) and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania was chosen as the first state to be approached, primarily because Vera Bej, who is a Distinguished Educator in Pennsylvania and serves as a consultant for the state’s Department of Education (PDE), had the credentials and contacts to introduce the book to the PDE. Vera and I, along with Ihor Mirchuk, began to work diligently in 2005 to create the workbook that the UCCA was eager to have distributed into the school districts of Pennsylvania in time for the 75th Anniversary of the Holodomor. 144 XXVIII Конвенція СУА www.unwla.org
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