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=//Carolina Friends School// = =Summer Institute for Teachers =

**SIFT** gives teachers an opportunity to share directly with one another the best of their experiential knowledge. Within a group of teachers there is a base of knowledge that can be found nowhere else. They know how to create the circumstances where real learning occurs. Like no one else, they know how to teach.

Modeled after the Carolina Friends School's End-of-Year Trips, SIFT programs will take teachers out of their familiar environs and put them in places where they must learn anew. The circumstances may be completely foreign in culture or in a natural setting generally remote from human traffic. The intent is to challenge perceptions of the self, of others and of the human and natural world around us.