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Spring 2025 Miss Porter's School Bulletin
What our faculty members have been learning, doing and presenting.
In October, Director of Dance Tessa Hailu obtained her Master of Fine Arts in dance from Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia. Also, her paper “Redesigning Private Dance Studio Education to Better Prepare the Future Dancer” was published last November in the journal Dance Education in Practice. The article and cover featured photos of dance students at Miss Porter’s School.
Cathie Hillian, P’25, P’27, associate director of counseling, completed three years of service on the Watertown Board of Education in Watertown, Connecticut. She was also recently appointed secretary of the executive committee on the board of directors of PROUD Academy, a safe and inclusive school for LGBTQ+ students in New Haven, Connecticut.
Latin Teacher Maureen Lamb, M.Ed., was a featured speaker at the Quizlet Unconference and led three sessions: “Language Deep Dive,” “Lesson Planning With Artificial Intelligence (AI)” and “Speed Hacks.” At the Conference in the Cloud for Comprehensible Input, she delivered two webinars: “Novel Ideas for Novellas” and “Differentiation and AI.” She also delivered a webinar on AI and academic integrity for Wayside Publishing. She also served as a principal examiner for paper 1 for the 2024 International Baccalaureate Latin exam.
In January, Eileen Mooney, Ph.D., mathematics and art teacher, had artwork accepted into the winter 2025 juried exhibition at the Blue Mountain Gallery in New York City. She also had artwork featured in the winter 2025 exhibition “In Black & White, 50 Artists/50 Works,” a member show of the Bowery Gallery in New York City.
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