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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English teacher Chris Hosea has a lot on his plate: in addition to teaching classes on modernist poetry and the integrated humanities at Marymount, he is pursuing a career as a poet. Mr. Hosea has been writing poetry for twelve years. In 1998 he won the Academy of American Poets prize at Harvard College, and [...]
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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 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 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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