THE FIVE-YEAR REVIEW
BUILDING THE DREAM: A BICULTURAL FAMILY AND
THE SCHOOL WITHOUT WALLS
By Raul H. Nakasone
The best way for me to reflect on my work in Evergreen is to go back to 1990 when my family and I had to leave Peru. Our hope then was that after one year, political conditions would have improved and we could then go back home; but conditions didn't improve and we had to stay in the U.S. some more time. Two goals were set: one was to become a bilingual and bicultural family, and to build a dream before going back home and make the dream come true. The dream is to create a new rural school in Peru. Here is the story year by year on how we are achieving the first goal and how I have been working to, little by little, someday become a Freirian educator to be able to run a Freirian school in a rural area in Peru. Here is also information on where we are in the process of building of the School Without Walls.

1990-91  The year we arrived in the U.S.
1991-92 First Year at TESC - Master In Teaching 1991-'93 First Year
1992-93 - MIT'93  Second Year
1993-94 - Core Program:  Conquest and Revolution: Peru, Mexico and Ireland
1994-95 - Master In Teaching 1994-'96 - Tacoma Campus First Year
1995-96 - MIT'96 - Second Year
1996-97 - 1st. Native American Studies Program:  Community: Time, Space, People and Place
1997-98 - MIT'98 - Second Year
1998-99 - Master In Teaching 1998-2000 Teachers Of Native American Learners
1999-2000 MIT2000 - Second Year- TONAL
2000-01 - 2nd. NAS Program: History: A Celebration of Place
2001-02 - 3rd. NAS Program:  Fall 2001 Destiny: Welcoming the Unknown   -  Winter and Spring 2002 SABBATICAL
2002-03 - 4th. NAS Program:  Respect: A Process of Universal Humanity
2004-05 - 6th. NAS program:  Patience: A Survival Process for an Unknown Future
2005-06 - 7th. NAS program:  Reconciliation: A Process of Human Balance
2006-07 - 8th. NAS program: Heritage: Self-Identity and Ties To The Land
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