Nearly fifty science educators from the New York Metro area including many of Marymount’s science department faculty joined Brian Greene for a master class on quantum mechanics at Marymount’s 97th Street Campus on Wednesday afternoon, May 15. The 75-minute master class challenged participants to consider a phenomenon called entanglement, which allows for actions at one [...]
read moreReflecting Marymount’s consistent effort to focus on the holistic development of students, several teachers across the divisions attended the “Understanding Sex, Gender, and Sexuality” conference at St. Hilda’s & St. Hugh’s School. There, they listened to lectures by Sexuality Educator, Deborah Roffman, and Educational Consultant, Jennifer Bryan, about gender and diversity models and how to [...]
read moreHeadmistress Concepcion Alvar, joined by a team of Marymount faculty and administrators, attended the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) Annual Conference on February 27-March 1, 2013. The theme of the gathering, held in Philadelphia, was “Revolutionary Traditions: Think Big Think Great.” The event was both inspiring and practical, posing provocative questions, and calling for [...]
read moreLinda Liang, Middle School mathematics teacher, spent a week in Louisiana studying the common loon with the Earthwatch Institute. The research expedition studied the effects of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill on the common loon in the Gulf of Mexico. In order to do so, scientists had to measure the level of toxic hydrocarbons [...]
read moreThe Marymount science and technology departments launched the new year by participating in a workshop on challenge-based learning with Apple Development Executive Paul Facteau. Mr. Facteau works with iZone or “innovation zone” schools, and was invited by Eric Walters, Director of Technology, and by Katie Krueger, Co-Chair of the Science Department and Apple Distinguished Educator. During [...]
read moreLast week, Marymount nurses Barbara Bode and Maureen Doheny attended a conference for New York City Independent School Health Teachers. At the workshop, teachers from all over the city shared teaching resources and discussed how best to integrate a health curriculum in schools that already have rigorous academic programs. Ms. Bode, Ms. Doheny, as well [...]
read moreThe entire Physical Education Department, along with Director of School Affairs Nora Gibson, travelled to Titusville, Pennsylvania, to observe how the school district implemented a PE4life curriculum in their early childhood program, middle schools, and high schools. As Dance Teacher Jesse Factor explained, PE4life is a philosophy of education in which “physical activity is the [...]
read moreJaymes Dec, Technology Integrator and Fab Lab Coordinator, travelled with Art Teacher Lesa Wang to Stanford University. Together, they attended FabLearn 2012, an international conference on Digital Fabrication in Education. At the conference, Mr. Dec and Ms. Wang ran a well-attended workshop on 3D Design and Printing. It allowed them to connect with other teachers interested in [...]
read moreOver the summer, Upper School history teacher Sarah Cunningham travelled to Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, for a five-day intensive workshop. The workshop, entitled “Thinking Historically Through Writing,” exposed teachers to ways that they could use writing exercises to teach historical thinking and analysis of primary source documents. Dr. Cunningham experienced these techniques firsthand, as the [...]
read moreSarah Verasco, Lower School Music Teacher, completed her Master’s degree in Educational Leadership in April, 2012. Her Master’s program did not take place in a traditional classroom setting, however; it was a completely online degree offered by the American College of Education. “What drew me to an online program was its flexibility,” Ms. Versaco explained. [...]
read moreOver the summer, Director of Technology Eric Walters and his team ran a virtual iPad professional development workshop for teachers of all school divisions. The workshop, entitled “iPads as Multimedia, Creative Tools,” aimed to support the teachers in learning creative ways to use the iPads as pedagogical tools. During the sessions, teachers were asked to [...]
read moreOn May 17 through 19, over one thousand educators gathered in Atlantic City for the first-ever NSTA STEM Forum and Expo. The Forum proved to be an incredible resource for teachers, administrators, and those involved with after-school and outreach programs–in other words, for anyone interested in developing better STEM opportunities for our youth and professional [...]
read moreArt teacher Jennifer Croson and Middle School social studies and math teacher Anne Townsend spent two weeks in Kenya in March at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy south of Nairobi, Kenya studying the ecology of the black rhino. They worked with a team of eleven people from four different continents (and all different walks of life). [...]
read moreIn early March, Headmistress Concepcion Alvar invited Catherine Koller, Lesa Wang, Jaymes Dec, Fiona O’Doherty, and Kimberly Field-Marvin to join her in attending the NAIS (National Association of Independent Schools) annual conference in Seattle, Washington. In addition, Eric Walters, Director of Science and Technology, was a presenter at the conference at a workshop entitled, “Disruptive [...]
read moreLower School teacher Kelly Sealy is currently pursuing a Master’s Degree in Curriculum and Instruction online through the University of Phoenix. Taking classes online affords her the flexibility to teach full time and fulfill her degree requirements. Her most recent classes have focused on curriculum, instruction, and the Action Research Project. Ms. Sealy’s research investigates [...]
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Elizabeth Hulton, Nursery teacher, is in pursuit of her second Master’s degree, this one an M.S.E. in Curriculum and Teaching at Fordham University. She chose this course of study “because it was one that allowed me to, after a small core of required courses, create my own program.” Ms. Hulton has taken courses in Beginning [...]
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Clem Wood, Upper School classics teacher, will travel to Italy in July to attend “Vergil, Aeneas, and Augustus,” a summer workshop sponsored by the Vergilian Society. The participants (all teachers of AP Latin) will stay in Rome for three days and at the Villa Vergiliana on the Bay of Naples for the remainder of the [...]
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Upper School mathematics teachers, Nicholas Wasserman and Itir Arkan collaborated to publish an article in the May 2011 edition of Mathematics Teacher. The publication is produced by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) and provides a forum for sharing best practices and ideas, connecting research with teaching, and offering a supportive network for [...]
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This summer, Upper School history teacher, Sarah Cunningham will spend five days at Fort Ticonderoga as part of a National Endowment for the Humanities Landmarks of American History and Culture workshop entitled, “The American Revolution on the Northern Frontier: Fort Ticonderoga and the Road to Saratoga.” Dr. Cunningham will be part of a group of [...]
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Middle School science teacher, Sabine Fischer-Daly, is delighted to have been selected to participate in a prestigious program through Fulbright Japan. The Japan-U.S. Teacher Exchange Program for Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) brings together innovative K-12 teachers from Japan and the U.S. “to deepen mutual understanding of each others’ educational system and culture through reciprocal [...]
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Katherine Krueger, Upper School science teacher, has been named as an Apple Distinguished Educator for 2011. The Apple Distinguished Educator (ADE) Program began in 1994, when Apple recognized K-12 and higher education pioneers who are using a variety of Apple products to transform teaching and learning in powerful ways. Today it has grown into a [...]
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Christine Tesson, World Languages Department Chair and Upper School French teacher, arrived in the Bahamas on Saturday, February 12, to spend a week as an Earthwatch Fellow assisting in their Bahamian Reef Survey project. Based on the remote island of San Salvador, Mme. Tesson is spending time in and out of the water gathering data [...]
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During eight of the coldest days in New York, Marymount PreK head teacher Kathy Egan ventured to Costa Rica to research sea turtles. Her trip was part of an Earthwatch Institute expedition and was a continuation of the research that Upper School teacher and mathematics chair Fiona O’Doherty participated in three years ago. While in [...]
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Innovation and cutting edge could very well be Marymount’s middle name! Marymount faculty Jennifer Croson, Katie Krueger, and Christine Tesson presented a workshop entitled iCreate. iInnovate. iLearn. at the Hathaway Brown School’s Education Innovation Summit in Cleveland, Ohio. The session focused on Marymount’s Mobile Computing Initiative, a curricular endeavor that integrates mobile technology such as [...]
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Sabine Fischer-Daly, Middle School science teacher, is traveling to the Galapagos Islands from November 20 through December 4 as part of the 2010 International Institute for Education (IIE) Toyota International Teacher Program. Ms. Fischer-Daly is one of twenty-three educators selected (out of a field of nearly 900) to participate in the program. She plans to pursue her [...]
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This summer as a participant in the Oxbridge Teacher Seminar in Barcelona, Susan Kaye, Middle School learning specialist, had the opportunity to indulge and expand her abiding interest in all things Spanish. The Oxbridge program for teachers is a one-week intellectual and cultural immersion experience, consisting of lectures by noted scholars and visits to points [...]
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While some people spent their summer vacation relaxing on the beach, members of the Marymount Science Department were engaged in a variety of professional development opportunities during the summer of 2010. Katie Krueger, Upper School biology teacher, took a three-week biology course that focused on the natural history of Yellowstone National Park and the Upper [...]
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Art teacher Jennifer Croson has devoted her life to what she teaches; she also, like all of her colleagues at Marymount, cares deeply about the physical and emotional welfare of children. In February, after reading Tracy Kidder’s Strength in What Remains, Jenn made an abrupt decision to use her passion for art as a means [...]
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In honor of Arts Week, beginning on April 19, we are featuring a selection of the many accomplished artists working at Marymount. It is a trademark of Marymount’s faculty and staff that their interests and achievements extend well beyond the classroom. The variety of their talents is truly astonishing: narrative poetry, theater-directing, composing for musical [...]
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As Marymount’s second Earthwatch Fellow of 2010, Tracy Graham, the Middle School counselor, followed the adventures of the first Fellow, her colleague Kelly LeSage, with special interest. One month later, Ms. Graham was off on her own Earthwatch journey, flying to Nicaragua in Central America to help scientists study volcanoes in the Volcan Masaya National [...]
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As one of Marymount’s two annual Earthwatch fellows, Class IV teacher Kelly LeSage was thrilled to have the opportunity of traveling to Red Butte Canyon in Utah from January 25-31 and partaking in research by the Earthwatch Institute on wildlife corridors for ungulates—deer, elk, moose, etc. Ms. LeSage worked with a team of fellow teachers, [...]
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Rachel Bundang, Upper School Religious Studies Teacher and Retreats Coordinator, took center stage on the weekend of November 6: traveling to the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion (AAR), which met in Montreal, Dr. Bundang gave two presentations and a paper to the assembly. The AAR is an international organization with over 10,000 [...]
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Marymount is committed to encouraging its faculty and staff in continuing with their education, and this year five of the Lower School’s assistant teachers are enrolled in graduate school. The School applauds these five women for demonstrating a lifelong love of learning! Astrid Cruz, assistant teacher in the Pre-Kindergarten, is pursuing a Master’s degree in [...]
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Following Marymount’s teacher workshops in June, Class V Teacher Anne Townsend left for Chile, where she spent ten weeks teaching at a high school in Hualpén. Escuela de Pedro del Rio, the school where Ms. Townsend volunteered, is for the equivalents of our ninth to twelfth grades. There are approximately one thousand students in the [...]
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History teacher Sarah Cunningham participated in two professional development opportunities this summer. In early July she attended the Gilder-Lehrman Institute of American History summer seminar “Visions of the American Environment,” led by Professor Patricia Limerick at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Designed to support high-school teachers and National Park rangers in bringing the latest scholarship [...]
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Kathleen McCarthy, Class I Head Teacher, traveled this summer to Paris for a week-long series of seminars run by Oxbridge Academic Programs, which gives teachers the opportunity to experience both current scholarship and historic traditions in several different European cities. “My experience with the Oxbridge Seminar in Paris supported and enflamed my life-long love of [...]
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For ten days in February 2009, Dr. Stefan Cornelis, an Upper School history teacher, joined a team of conservation scientists in Churchill, Manitoba, Canada as part of the Earthwatch expedition, Climate Change at the Arctic’s Edge. He kept the community engaged and informed through daily blog entries, and on two occasions he was able to [...]
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