Where we came from & where we are going.

EARLY YEARS

·  In 1993, Pacific Academy Christian School (PA) became involved in International Christian education in Kibaale, an extremely poor village in central Uganda;

·  At this time, PA began its mandate to provide teacher training at Kibaale Community School with its small staff with the assistance of Arleen Bucholtz who was the headmistress/director of education from 1993-1999;

·  The PA board of directors and the headmaster, Ray Sutton, had a united vision to see teacher development be implemented;

·  As the school grew in staff, Arleen continued to teach and develop an understanding of what a Christian school entailed and taught various topics such as Biblical Worldview, Christian school Philosophy and Methodology;

·  The training that was conducted for our teachers in Kibaale Community School enabled them to become highly effective teachers, other local Ugandan schools began requesting help in training their teachers as well;

·  2012-2013, the first official teacher training centre was opened at the Timothy Centre, Masaka, Uganda, under the direction of PA teacher, Arleen Bucholz;

·  From 2012-2016, a rotation of teachers from PA were sent to Uganda to provide teacher training(Ken Drisner, Gillian Hamm, Ruth Blois, Paul Horban, Lizabee Wickett, Rob Teasdale, Claudia Petersen)

Claudia as Director

· In 2016, Claudia Petersen was hired to revise the teacher training model to a 1 year/3 modular teacher training program.

· The program evolved into what is currently called TTT.