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 [...]
read moreMarymount 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 Philosophy [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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For ten days in February, 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 participate [...]
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