Articles
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Spotlight: Liz Landes (PA ’19)
January 2, 2020Science teacher Liz Landes encourages students to stretch and take risks: “Staying in your comfort zone is not conducive to true learning.”
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My Year as an Einstein Fellow
December 18, 2019Through a prestigious fellowship for STEM educators, Amara Alexander (AL ’16) is spending the 2019-20 school year at the Library of Congress.
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Spotlight: Erin Wyatt (MD ’19)
December 16, 2019Erin Wyatt (MD ’19) sees teaching diversity and tolerance as a professional mandate: “We have the responsibility to produce young people with the highest level of integrity and respect for all.”
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Spotlight: Ryan Sykes (VA '19)
December 13, 2019A traumatic childhood helped assistant principal Ryan Sykes (VA ’19) develop survival skills and empathy that have propelled him to success as an educator.
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Spotlight: Lauren Sepulveda (CT '19)
December 12, 2019A desire to bring equity into the classroom inspired Lauren Sepulveda (CT ’19) to teach social studies: “I believe our youth should be able to see themselves reflected in their history curriculum.”
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Spotlight: Raisa Eady (AL '19)
December 2, 2019A summer in a lab working on cancer drugs gave biology teacher Raisa Eady (AL '19) insight into the business of science and the wide variety of scientific careers—wisdom she’s passing along to her students.
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Spotlight: Claire Smullen (DC '19)
November 22, 2019Art teacher Claire Smullen has taught students from first grade to 12th, but she loves middle school, a time when “students are trying to figure out how they fit into the world.”
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A Lifelong Student Teacher
October 28, 2019A government grant took Bill Sterrett (VA '08) to Pakistan to collaborate with local educators on middle school STEM projects. He learned as much as he taught.
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A Desert Dispatch: The Road to Abu Dhabi
September 30, 2019After years as a celebrated educator in Tacoma, Nate Bowling (WA ’13) left the U.S. to teach in Abu Dhabi. The biggest difference: resources.
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At Our Dual-Language School, New Immigrants Blossom Into Leaders
September 26, 2019Chris Bessonette's (WY '18) immigrant students flourish at dual-language Munger Mountain Elementary School.