- Technical Guidance for Administrators eager to build and expand programs including funding and linkage to schools in China. Opportunities also exist for summer exchange programs for administrators, faculty and students.
- Professional Development guidance to create Chinese content modules.
- Popular high school topics geared for success on the ACT, SAT, SAT II, Advanced Placement, and other exams. Topics include language, literature, philosophy, religion, history, the Communist Revolution, and politics today.
- Popular middle school topics are geography and society, stories of prominent personalities in history, and cultural exchanges on the Silk Road through Asia and Europe.
- Popular elementary school topics are Chinese New Year, folk stories, language units and China day-long or week-long programs.
- Cultural training seminars for school professionals help with expectations of Chinese parents, ways to communicate with non-English speaking parents, ways to integrate students with limited English, and strategies to channel the potential of Chinese students in your school.
- Schools using PSI's CHINALINK© become magnets attracting parents eager to put their children into successful learning environments.
- Students will discover new abilities and interests.
Cutting-edge curriculum offers a distinct advantage on standardizedand college exams.- PSI's CHINALINK© provides timely, accurate and interesting content, making both urban and suburban schools alike cutting-edge schools.
- Academic performance of the school community will be energized.
- This prepares students for the global world--a world where China is a central player.
- PSI has made it easy for schools to incorporate CHINALINK© into their curriculum. We offer different modules for schools to improve and broaden their focus on the growing role that China will play when your graduates enter extremely competitive job markets.
- Curricular, cultural exchange and professional development modules for urban and suburban schools, public, non-public and charter schools and high schools are available for both current and potential PSI client schools.
- Karen McKelvey is PSI's Coordinator of our CHINALINK© initiative. Call Karen at 800.481.4774, ext 230 or e-mail her for additional information about this exciting new PSI program.
DR.
MARLEEN KASSEL IS DIRECTOR of the Asian Initiatives
Program in the Department of Institutional
Advancement at Queens College of the City
University of New York, Dr. Kassel has over 30 years of experience in the world of
Chinese education, including teaching Asian and World History, curriculum
development for all grade levels, and raising revenue for a wide variety of
academic programs including international exchange programs.
She and PSI's President, 
Steve Rosenberg, have created an institutional
and exchange relationship with Sichuan University in China.
Marleen has given presentations to schools, nonprofit education organizations and museum education programs. She has received over 35 grants from private foundations and federal organizations for funding international education programs. CHINALINK© can help your school develop a unique, international program tailored to the needs of PSI's client schools, with seminars on topics for administrators, teachers, and students.
