City School of Carrollton – Artelingua students’ exchange

After welcoming students from Carrollton High School to Spoleto, it is now time for students from Spoleto to set off for Georgia.

A new chapter is unfolding as part of an international exchange project developed through the collaboration between the University of West Georgia (UWG) and Artelingua, with the aim of creating meaningful opportunities for Italian and American students to meet and experience international mobility as an authentic educational journey.

Last May, five students from Carrollton High School’s International Baccalaureate programme, in Georgia, spent ten days in Spoleto, staying with local host families and taking part in the city’s educational and cultural life.

The programme allowed the American students to experience Spoleto from a perspective that goes beyond tourism: they attended classes alongside Italian students, took part in language and cultural activities and shared everyday moments with their host families.

An experience built around the idea that language is also learned through people, places and relationships.

Now, the exchange continues in the opposite direction.

Across the Atlantic

The Spoleto students will have the opportunity to discover Carrollton and Carrollton High School from the inside, experiencing a different educational environment and meeting a new community.

Their stay will give them the chance to use English in authentic situations, connect with American students, discover new habits and perspectives, and explore American culture through direct experience.

But, just as it was in Spoleto, the heart of the project will be the human connection.

Because an international exchange is not simply about visiting another country. It means temporarily becoming part of another community, sharing everyday life and learning to look at one’s own world from a different perspective.

Building a Bridge Through Language

For Artelingua, which coordinates the project locally and has long been committed to language education and intercultural exchange, this new journey represents another important step in its collaboration with United States.

The experience of the American students in Spoleto and that of the Spoleto students in Carrollton are two parts of the same journey: a project connecting schools, families, students and communities through language and culture.

This is also the value of international education: creating experiences that extend beyond the classroom and continue to make an impact long after students return home.

After opening the doors of Spoleto to the students from Carrollton, it is now the turn of the Spoleto students to take a piece of our city with them across the Atlantic.

The journey continues.
From Spoleto to Carrollton, and beyond…