The document provides guidance for exchange teachers on conducting annual cross-cultural activities and submitting reports. It requires exchange teachers to complete one activity within their school/community providing an overview of their home country, and one activity facilitating dialogue between U.S. and foreign students, to promote mutual understanding between cultures. Sponsors must collect these annual reports from exchange teachers detailing their cross-cultural activities for the year.

1. 2021-2022 Cross-Cultural Activity Report
DUE: Friday, February 11, 2022
As of February 28, 2016, Exchange Visitor (EV) Teachers participating in an Exchange Visitor program must
conduct a cross-cultural activity component yearly and submit a detailed report to their sponsor. The overarching goal of
the EV Teacher program is to promote the interchange of U.S. and foreign teachers and enhance mutual understanding
between the people of the United States and other countries.
In support of this goal, exchange teachers sharpen their professional skills and participate in cross-cultural
activities in schools and communities, and they return home after the exchange to share their experiences and increased
knowledge of the United States and the U.S. educational system. Such exchanges enable foreign teachers to understand
better U.S. culture, society and teaching practices at the primary and secondary levels, and enhance U.S. students'
knowledge of foreign cultures, customs and teaching approaches.
h) Cross-cultural activity component. In addition to the requirements of §62.10:
(1) Sponsors must require each exchange teacher to complete, within the United States,and during each academic
year of program participation, at least one cross-cultural activity from each of the following two categories:
(i) An activity for the teacher's classroom,larger host school or host school district population, or the
community at large designed to give an overview of the history, traditions, heritage, culture, economy,
educational system and/or other attributes of his or her home country. Sponsors of exchange teachers
placed at international schools must require their exchange teachers to conduct at least one cross-cultural
activity per academic year outside the host school in nearby schools or communities where international
opportunities may be more limited than those found in their host school; and
(ii) An activity that involves U.S. student dialogue with schools or students in another country, preferably in
the exchange teacher's home school, through virtual exchange or other means, in order to supplement the
goals of the in-person exchange.
(2) Sponsors must collect annual reports from their exchange teachers detailing the cross-cultural activity component
of their exchange program. Please use the attached template.
Federal Regulation:
Part 62: Exchange Visitor Program §62.24 Teachers.

2. DUE: FRIDAY, February 11, 2022 BY 5:00PM
Cross-Cultural Activity Report Form
Please emailcompletedform to annaj.delay@state.nm.us.
New Mexico Public Education Department
Educator Growth and Development Bureau
Telephone: (505) 795-3309
300 Don Gaspar Avenue
Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501
Cross-Cultural Activity Component: Annual Report
Name ofExchange Visitor Teacher Aaron Jesus Faz Elizondo
Sponsor Name NEW MEXICO PUBLIC EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
Reporting Academic Year 2021-2022
Home Country Mexico
J-1 Visa Program End Date July/15/2024
Host School Highland High School
Principal’s Signature
Category (i) Activity: Local Activity
See22 C.F.R. 62.24(h)(1)(i)
Category (i): An activity for the teacher's classroom, larger host school or host school district population, or the
community at large designed to give an overviewofthe history, traditions, heritage, culture,economy,
educational system and/or other attributes ofhis or her home country. Sponsors ofexchange teachers placed at
international schools must require their exchange teachers to conduct at least one cross-cultural activity per
academic year outside the host school in nearby schools or communities where international opportunities may
be more limited than those found in their host school sponsors:
Date ofactivity
Location ofactivity
The audience for and participants in activity
General overviewofactivity, including the topic:
The estimated impact ofactivity:
Category (ii) Activity: International Activity
See22 C.F.R. 62.24(h)(1)(ii)
Category (ii): An activity that involves U.S.student dialogue with schools or students in another country,
preferably in the exchange teacher's home school, through virtual exchange or other means, in order to
supplement the goals ofthe in-person exchange:
Date ofactivity
Location ofactivity
The audience for and participants in activity
General overviewofactivity, including the topic:
The estimated impact ofactivity: