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LEF Summer Fellowships - 2006
Albert
Roos Viewing his fellowship “as an opportunity to teach an old dog new tricks,” veteran LHS math teacher Albert Roos will attend a Summer Institute for Professional Development for Mathematics Educators at Mills College in Oakland, CA. After participating in the week-long course on “Exploring Statistics with Fathom,” Roos will use his newfound knowledge to unlock and exploit this powerful statistical computer software tool in his AP Statistics courses at LHS next fall. |
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Richard
Comeau Diamond science teacher Rick Comeau will be on top of the world this summer as he spends five weeks working with scientists at the Mount Washington Weather Observatory in New Hampshire, site of the some of the most extreme weather recorded in North America. Comeau will have the opportunity to study weather content and concepts, and to learn about new scientific software and technology. He also will use his carefully recorded data of the directionality of sunrise and sunset to deepen his own knowledge and to expand the sixth grade science curriculum unit on earth, moon, sun and shadows. |
Melissa
Buttaro Each year, LHS helps hundreds of seniors find the right colleges and sends increasing numbers of students to international universities. At the prestigious Oxford Roundtable at Oxford University in England, an invitation-only forum studying current issues facing state and national systems of education, Melissa Buttaro will make a presentation on “One School's Program for Preparing Students and Parents for the College Application Process and Experience,” and learn first-hand about international universities and application processes. By gaining valuable exposure for LHS and its students and sharing her experience with her guidance department colleagues, Buttaro will make information on international admission policies and post-secondary opportunities available to over 900 LHS upperclassmen. |
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Rosanne
Barbacano Rosanne Barbacano will be attending the four-day Summer Institute on Writing at Columbia University, studying current and effective practices in writing and writing instruction for elementary students. Designed to help teachers turn classrooms into “richly literate” reading and writing workshops, Barbacano hopes to return from the Institute with “ways to foster a love of reading and writing into each school day.” In the fall, she also plans to hold a writing workshop for staff and provide collaborative coaching for other elementary teachers. |
Sarah
Boys Widhu Reading and writing aren’t only about the words on the page, as Library Specialist Sarah Boys Widhu well knows. This summer, Widhu will participate in the Picturing Writing Workshop in Durham, NH. This dynamic art-and-literature-based approach to writing, introduced school-wide at Harrington this year through an LEF grant, helps all levels of writers write more descriptively by using their own artwork as inspiration and subject matter. This fall, Widhu will work closely with classroom teachers to identify books and literature in the Harrington library which can be integrated with Picturing Writing to support every part of the curriculum. |
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Norma
Gordon Every school day, teachers meet students with a range of educational needs and learning styles. In order to explore in-depth the intricacies of teaching adolescents, LHS math teacher Norma Gordon will attend a week-long course at the Cape Cod Institute on “Neurodevelopmental Variation and Learning Disorders in Childhood and Adolescence”, examining the cognitive issues that affect learning for special needs students. Says Gordon, “ I am passionate about increasing my knowledge regarding how students learn and understand; attending this course will enable me to better plan teaching and assessment strategies, with the goal of ensuring the best and most successful experience for my students.” |
Anne
Carey Exploring the idea of “teenage search for self through art”, Carey will be researching the ‘Swinjugend’ or Swing Kids of Hamburg, Germany, a WWII anti-Nazi youth movement that used swing dance as a springboard for non-violent protests. Carey will travel to London and Germany to examine recently recovered original documents and participate in swing dance classes, expanding her understanding of this political and social arts-based protest movement. This fall, Carey will develop a multimedia participatory dance workshop based on the history of the Hamburg Swing Kids for the more than 600 LHS students who participate in Carey’s dance classes annually. |
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Steve
Bogart This summer, Bogart will be attending the renowned 14th Annual Last Frontier Theatre Conference in Valdez, Alaska. Working in a creative collaborative setting with other playwrights, actors and directors from around the world, Bogart will participate in play readings and critiques, performances, master classes, and panel discussions. The experience will directly impact the classes taught by Bogart at LHS, including Playwriting and Directing and Drama of Social Issues, and self-scripting student workshops. “My participation in the conference,” says Bogart, “will provide me with more tools and approaches to help empower my students’ ‘authentic voice’ in dramatic writing”. |
Carolyn
Sheild After being named “Teacher at Sea” by the Students Experiments at Sea (SEAS) program, Carolyn Sheild will be an “off-season” Summer Fellow, spending a month in January 2007 off the west coast of Mexico working alongside scientists aboard the Wood Hole research vessel, Atlantis. During the research cruise, Sheild’s students will become directly involved with the research experience through “Classroom to Sea” labs, monitoring the website http://www.ridge2000.org/SEAS/ and comparing data gathered in their own environment with data collected during deep-sea dives of the Alvin submarine. “My going (on the cruise) makes it all the more real to them,” says Sheild of her students; “Not only can I report on what’s happening, when it is happening, but it gives them a way to be there.” |
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