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Washington, DC, United States, 01/24/2008 - Olympic Gold medal-winning speedskater Joey Cheek, who donated his prize money to Right to Play at the 2006 Olympics, is returning to Coeus International School (CIS) in 2008 to advance Olympism education.
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CIS, founded by Dr. J. Daniel Hollinger, offers a dual-language, international education in English and the choice of Arabic, French, Greek, Mandarin or Spanish for students in kindergarten through twelfth grade. Joey attended last year's Spirit of Olympism event at Coeus with other Olympians, including CIS Director of Athletics Nathaniel Mills, also a former Olympic speedskater, who recently supported Joey's Team Darfur project.
Located at 4401 Connecticut Avenue, NW in Washington, DC, CIS is an economically, culturally, racially and linguistically diverse school community. CIS' dual-language, international curriculum develops fluency in two or more languages and prepares students for global citizenship.
CIS' mission is to educate young people to develop intellectual capability and creativity, cultivate emotional intelligence and healthy relationships, achieve academic excellence and proficiency in world languages, value cultural diversity, and acquire peacemaking skills.
The school's curriculum, based on the International Baccalaureate (IB) Organisation's Primary, Middle and Diploma Years Programmes, is inquiry-based and trans-disciplinary. An IB Candidate School, CIS also offers innovative programs such as Olympism-based athletics, a Professionals-in-Residence Program, Hellenic programs, peace studies and international study tours.
Through the inquiry-based, interdisciplinary and trans-disciplinary teaching and learning, Coeus students transcend the confining boundaries of disciplines, languages, classrooms and cultural stereotypes to think, create, research, analyze, read and write above and beyond traditional expectations.
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