If their students turned the tables and asked what they did this summer, two Lenoir County Public Schools teachers could regale them with an account of travel abroad and an all-expense-paid professional development opportunity that opened their eyes to a different culture and another system of classroom instruction.

Elizabeth Hamm, an agriculture teacher and Future Farmers of America adviser at EB Frink Middle School, and Jillian Campbell, an eighth-grade social studies teacher at Woodington Middle School, joined more than 40 other teachers from across North Carolina for a 10-day trip to the Netherlands in June.

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