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Congratulations to staff members who have been selected for exciting upcoming opportunities!
Congratulations to CFS teachers (from left to right) Frances Brindle, Susan Kincaid, Ida Trisolini, Toni Williamson, Cesanne Berry, and Annie Dwyer for being selected for exciting upcoming opportunities!
CFS has just awarded the second set of PACE (Professional and Community Enrichment) grants. Based on the nominations from the Staff Salary & Benefits Committee, this year’s recipients are Annie Dwyer and Toni Williamson.
- This summer Annie Dwyer will pursue "Body and Earth Training" in West Wales and further develop curriculum in collaboration with Emily Chamberlain in Seattle. Annie believes that in order "to make a change in the consciousness of the planet, we have to go in through the body and allow for alternate modes of perception." She looks forward to sharing her experience in an Upper School class, a Middle School Exploratorium, and an experiential evening presentation for the community.
- In December Toni Williamson will put her knowledge of Swahili to use while spending four weeks in Kenya, East Africa. There she will work with young people, "street kids" or orphans, many of whom have lost parents to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. She looks forward to sharing her experience in her Middle School course on Swahili and East African culture, her Africa unit in the Middle School First Year curriculum, and the Upper School HIV/AIDS course offering.
Also traveling this summer will be Frances Brindle, who has been invited to The Research Experience for Teachers (RET) program, funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation, in Costa Rica.
RET offers a select group of high school science teachers the opportunity to pursue mentored research at the La Selva Biological Station in Costa Rica. This program will take place over a five-week period during the summer of 2007. The objective of the program is to provide science teachers with a well-rounded research experience in tropical biology in one of the most important research centers in the tropics and through this experience help the selected teachers integrate field-oriented research into their classroom instruction.
As part of the program, all selected teachers will receive international roundtrip airfare to Costa Rica, travel opportunities in Costa Rica, food and lodging throughout their stay, a small research equipment allowance, and a stipend of $800 a week for five weeks.
Friends Council on Education has selected three CFS staff members for two of its programs to strengthen leadership and initiative in Friends Schools.
- Ida Trisolini has been chosen to participate in the Developing and Engaging Leadership in Friends Schools. The goal of the program is to create a strategic network of Friends school leaders who will work together as a learning community focused on personal transformation and developing capacity and skills for leadership in Friends schools, and to accomplish this through creating an Institute for Engaging Leadership in Friends Schools. Participants will travel to Pendle Hill for four two-day retreats over the next two years.
- Cesanne Berry (Durham Early School) and Susan Kincaid (Upper School) have been selected for the 2007-2009 cohort of Friends Council on Education’s program called SPARC: Spirited Practice and Renewed Courage for Teachers in Friends Schools. This two-year program also consists of four two-day retreats that allow time for reflective work in a community of inspired educators. The goal is a professional development network that focuses on renewal of spirit, personal mastery, creative problem-solving and Quaker processes for collaboration and reflection.
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