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Our Continuing Work on Diversity and Inclusion
This academic year, Holy Child School at Rosemont welcomed two teaching fellows, Lucia Hermann and Shequana Callender, to join our community through the Independent School Teaching Fellows Program of Greater Philadelphia. Created in collaboration with William Penn Charter School and the Community Partnership School, the fellows program seeks to support and develop educators of color by training and mentoring recent college graduates, who then serve as semesterly teaching fellows in area independent schools. The program has blossomed into a consortium of five area independent schools, including Holy Child, which joined in the summer of 2021, recognizing both the importance of diverse teaching teams for our children and the opportunities to provide professional mentorship to new educators of color.
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Lucia Hermann, teaching assistant to Mr. Todd Wolov during the fall 2021 semester, is from Miami, Florida. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in English (cum laude) from Haverford College in 2017 and served her first year as a fellow at William Penn Charter School. Lucia dedicated her time at Holy Child to learning about language arts instruction for Middle School students. Shequana Callender, teaching assistant to Mrs. Kate Logan during the spring 2022 semester, is from Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in history from Rosemont College in 2022, and was an intern in the Library Archives Department there. She served her first year as a fellow at William Penn Charter School. Shequana’s time at Holy Child was primarily spent learning about science class instruction for Grades 1–5.
