The Housatonic Community College Early Childhood Inclusive Education Program students can Stay Close but Go Far. Two HCC ECIE graduates just returned from 6 months in China where they taught in an bilingual, bicultural preschool. Two more students have just arrived in Beijing to work at the same preschool for a year. We will follow their journey here. Then later this semester, several professors, students, teachers and directors will be going to Scandinavia to learn about the preschool systems in place in Finland and Sweden. Please come back often and let us know what you think about our quest to learn more about early care and education globally.