Lower School Director DONNA LINDNER and Classics Department Chair DAVID MARSHALL met the challenges of an Outward Bound program for educators during eight days in North Carolina this summer. The North Carolina Outward Bound School Educators Initiative (EI) is a yearlong professional development program that gives K–12 teachers from public and private schools a first-hand understanding of experiential education methodology and how it can be used in their classrooms to build community and deliver curriculum. Following an initial wilderness expedition, participants engage in regular coaching with Outward Bound staff and EI peers, a classroom visitation/observation, and two weekend retreats — all focused on an experiential cycle of deliberate action, reflection and application.
FACULTY NEWS IN BRIEF Below: Thin Cities, porcelain, glaze, 2014
Lindner writes: “David and I were in the Pisgah Mountain Range of North Carolina, where we backpacked through the forests, expeditioning and camping. We engaged in Class 4 rock climbing of Devil’s Cellar on the way to watching the sunset from the peak of Table Top Mountain, and each of us spent a night in the woods on our own after setting up our own camps. We also spent a day rock climbing and rappelling near Table Rock Mountain, and a day on a high ropes course.” Middle and Upper School art teacher THERESA FROCK participated in the (e)merge art fair in Washington, D.C., on October 2–5, where she exhibited ceramic works as well as drawings. She also organized the fifth anniversary exhibition for the Philadelphia gallery Tiger Strikes Asteroid, where she is the co-director and press coordinator. The group exhibit, “To Tiger With Love,” ran from July 11–27 and featured past and present gallery members from Philadelphia and New York. An article written by French teacher BARBARA P. BARNETT entitled “A la Poursuite de ses passions” was published in the Gazette Violette, the journal of the American Society of French Academic Palms. Invited to submit an article by ASOFAP president Margot Steinhart about her two decades of research on France under the German occupation, Barnett emphasized the importance of following one’s passions as well as one’s mind when choosing intellectual and professional pursuits. The article focuses on several important events in her personal and professional life: living with a French family while studying at the Sorbonne, interviewing French Holocaust survivors, Christian rescuers, historians and members of the Resistance, and creating Frenchlanguage documentaries with students at Agnes Irwin.
Barbara P. Barnett with Dr. George Barnett
Above: Trefoils and Jabots, porcelain, glaze, 2014
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