CAMPUS NEWS
Professional Development cont. from pg. 6
B a bies , B a bies , B a bies Kent Denver welcomed a host of new Sun Devils since the last issue of Perspective was published. Director of Middle School Admission, Miya Dickman ’94, and her husband, Josh, celebrated the arrival of their third daughter, Masachika, on Sept. 29, 2016.
Sarah Dutcher, Breakthrough Kent Denver’s Executive Director, and her husband, Matt, welcomed twins, Madeleine and Max, on Nov. 9, 2016.
Bradley Evan Rubin, son of Speech and Debate Coach Terry Rubin and his wife, Ilana, made a very early, surprise arrival. Born on Dec. 14, 2016 while Ilana was on a business trip in New York City, Bradley weighed in at 2 lbs, 11 oz and had added nearly a pound of weight by Jan. 5, 2017. The Rubins hope to bring Bradley back to Colorado in early March. We all look forward to welcoming them home! French teacher Allison Cain and her husband, Patrick, welcomed their first child, Henry O’Brien Cain, on Jan. 6, 2017. They say, “We didn’t know it was possible to love someone so much.”
“Many candidates tell us that our investments in faculty professional development are a key reason they choose Kent Denver,” says Upper School Division Head Eric Chandler. “We seek teachers who never want to stop growing and we support that growth through our multifaceted professional learning program. Not every school is willing or able to do that.” Thanks to the outstanding reputation of Kent Denver’s teachers and innovative programs, our faculty are also in high demand as presenters at professional development conferences across the nation. Recent examples include:
Michael Ehrenfried delivered a presentation entitled “Leveraging Online Spaces to Improve Metacognition.” at the Lovett Learning Institute.
Scott Yates presented at the American Football Coaches Association conference in Nashville in January 2017.
Annick Chen was a STARTALK Program Instructor on Chinese Instruction in the Digital Age at CU Boulder over the summer. She also facilitated workshops for Denver Public Schools and the Poudre School District and presented at the Colorado Department of Education, Colorado Congress of Foreign Language Teachers, and Colorado Chinese Language Teachers Consortium.
John Kuntz led a session at the Association of Middle Level Educators annual conference in Austin, TX. His presentation “considered a framework for considering the structure of middle schools: what we teach, how we teach, and how we create systems to support kids.”
James Covi helped lead a session on AP History teaching practices at the World History Association conference in Ghent, Belgium.
Marti Champion was a facilitator for the CIRCLE Conference’s “New to Inclusiveness Work Circle,” helping educators “engage in dialogue with others beginning to explore courageous conversations.”
Audrey Imhoff, Graham Reid and Michael Ehrenfried from the IIT team presented on the topic “Information Technology, Libraries, and Ed Tech: Fight, Coexist, or Thrive?” at the Association of Technology Leaders in Independent Schools (ATLIS) conference in April.
Jason Mundy, Taylor Pringle and Marti Champion trained high school students to present workshops to middle-schoolers as part of the STAMP Diversity Conference in October. 8
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