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Faculty Notes Announcing the 2016 Miss Fine!s Center Fellows Tara Quigley, director of the Miss Fine’s Center at Princeton Day School, has announced the 2016 Miss Fine’s Center Fellows. Through the generosity of the Center, the Fellows engage in interdisciplinary work and share their findings with their faculty colleagues, as well as in forums beyond the school community, including national independent school conferences and other discipline-specific professional gatherings. Here are the 2016 Fellows and their projects:
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Rachel Kamen and the 7th grade core teachers (Katy Terry, Jane Grigger, Paul Epply-Schmidt, Beth Yakoby) for training related to a new, interdisciplinary, 7th grade Philadelphia field trip experience centered around a grade-wide reading of the novel Fever, 1793.
Sixth grade teachers Drew Lloyd, Joseph Reilly, and Cindy Peifer for working on a curriculum for an outdoor, experiential, interdisciplinary day for the sixth grade students and faculty.
Stephanie Stuefer and Carrie Norin for attending a design thinking workshop at the Stanford Design School and bring back what they learned to a collaborative project with 9th grade biology and ceramics. Jessica Clingman, Carmen Santa-Cruz, and Tara Quigley for attending PBL (Project Based Learning) World in California in order to incorporate interdisciplinary lessons into their math, science, Spanish, and Humanities courses using the project based learning methodology (featured in photo). Channing McCullough for attending a workshop at Penn State entitled Arab Arts and Culture and with plans to return and collaborate with 6th grade Humanities and MS and US Spanish. Edem Afemeku and Todd Gudgel for time to develop a songbook and archive of songs which can be used to more actively engage students in target language acquisition, as well as to bring music and language into other classes in MS and US.
Nichole Foster-Hinds for creating more project-based units for her classes in order to bring more student-driven, real world, and interdisciplinary work into MS math. Jamie Atkeson will also collaborate with her on using technology to facilitate her student activities. Jessica Clingman and Maryann Ortiz for working on revising some of the 5th grade science units to make them more project-based and interdisciplinary. Collaboration with Jamie Atkeson will also allow for technology integration into some student activities. Katy Terry, Karen Latham, Sheila Goeke, and Jamie Atkeson for developing a To Kill a Mockingbird “podcast” unit that will tie the novel to social justice issues and current events. Anne Robideaux for attending the 2016 Santa Barbara Historical Dance Workshop and for implementing historic Spanish dance classes for youth in an interdisciplinary manner. She plans to collaborate with MS Spanish and Humanities.
ENDOWED AWARDS, GRANTS, AND SABBATICALS On June 9, 2016 in the Campus Center, Paul Stellato announced the following awards for faculty.
The Shepherd-McCaughan, Miss Fine!s School Fund, and Minerva Fund Sabbatical Programs These programs are intended to promote professional growth for PDS teachers who have served the school well over an extended time period and to enhance their continued contributions to the school after their return. • Bill Stoltzfus, for community outreach; and for participation in the development of a comprehensive, PreK–12 service learning program; • Daniel Cohen, to write and publish both young-adult literature and to compile and publish work he has begun as the author of our school’s operettas. 8*'!1*"'9-':$))'45;)57<1#'5&1+=5'=$#')&#5'%)&##'&5'>/$*%"5;*'?&2'4%=;;)'&#'="'*;@'",A&/B#'1C;*'&*' "D%$5$*+'#&AA&5$%&)E'F<5"/'9G'2"&/#';<'5"&%=$*+-'&'+/;1C';<'<&%1)52'&*3'#5&<<'+&5="/"3'5;'+$H"'=$,'&' /;1*3';<'&CC)&1#"'5;'=;*;/'=$#'3"3$%&5$;*'5;'=$#'#513"*5#E FALL!"#$%