School is out. Back to school!

 

Since Commencement on June 6th, Gordon faculty and administrators have leapt into a summer of learning and professional development, beginning with the annual faculty-led Gordon Multicultural Institute.

 

 

After the institute, administrators and faculty from all three divisions began a four-day seminar with Barbara Bratzel from the Tufts University School of Engineering.

 

 

Her specialty is robotics engineering, and Gordon’s robotics instruction begins with the youngest students.

 

By gathering everyone involved in Gordon’s schoolwide robotics curriculum, the seminar gave teachers a close-up look at how particular skills - and, sometimes, individual students - developed over the course of Gordon’s schoolwide robotics curriculum.

Next up? Here’s a sample of what staff, faculty and administration are doing this summer:

One teacher is beginning Brown University’s IE Executive MBA program, which blends "innovative managements skills with the human sciences... for those who seek to inspire those around them and disrupt the future ..." 

Another is finishing the Masters Degree in Independent School Leadership program at the Klingenstein Center at Columbia Teachers College.

Most summers, Gordon has had representation at the long-running Diversity Directions Independent School Seminar, and this year is no exception, with faculty and administration there as instructors and participants.

Gordon will also be represented at the Association of Independent School Admission Professionals annual institute in Nashville, TN.

A modern language teacher is off to Salamanca, Spain to give her presentation, Equity for All: Social Justice in the World Language Classroom, at the annual conference of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese. Then it’s back to Gordon to develop curriculum with the rest of Gordon’s modern language team.

A music teacher began the summer with the three-day International Music Education Summit. Then they are is busy with the American Choral Director’s Association, presenting at their gathering for Rhode Island music educators and attending their four-day conference at Smith College.

A Lower School teacher is working as teacher coach at Generation Teach, an organization dedicated to  recruiting and training "exemplary educators who reflect the students and communities they serve."

You can support innovative teaching this summer by giving to the Gordon Fund at www.gordonschool.org/give. This year’s effort wraps up June 30th.