LEF PROUDLY ANNOUNCES OUR 2011 SUMMER FELLOWS
Eleven teachers from Lexington Public Schools have received mini-grants of up to $4000 to attend conferences and workshops and participate in research programs. These educational opportunities will enhance their teaching and enliven their classrooms.

Here’s what LEF Summer Fellows will be studying: 

Lynne Murray, Art Teacher
Katie Bettencourt, Art Teacher
Bowman and Hastings Elementary Schools
Visual Arts: Attending a Mixed Media Painting course at Art New England, a summer program for artists at Bennington College, Vermont, will enhance their skills as both artists and educators.

Lynn Taber, School Nurse
Bowman Elementary School
Health: Attending the National School Nurse Association Conference in Washington, D.C. will improve her professional practice and allow her to share recent developments in school nursing with her colleagues.

Barbara Schuster, School Nurse
Diamond Middle School
Health: Attending the School Nurse Summer Institute and Leadership Academy, particularly the workshop, Diabetes in the School Setting, will enhance her professional status in this critical student health area and allow her to share gained knowledge with colleagues.

Susan Kaftan, School Nurse
Lexington High School
Health: Attending a 3-day Adolescent Health Care Conference in Boston will expand her knowledge of adolescent health issues and make her to better serve LHS students.  

Deborah Side, Music Teacher
Hollace Stumpf, Music Teacher
Bridge and Harrington Elementary Schools
Performing Arts: Taking two summer courses - Hot Marimba, a Zimbabwean style xylophone music, and Harmony of Song an Dance will strengthen and energize different skills in their music classrooms.

Kate Bromley, Drama Teacher
Diamond Middle School
Performing Arts: Taking an Emerson College Summer Workshop in acting techniques - Michael Checkhov's Theatre of the Future - will stimulate creativity in both the teacher's lesson planning and her students' dramatic expresson.

John Hunt, Spanish Teacher
Clarke Middle School
Foreign Language: Summer study at the Academia Iria Flavia language school in Galicia, Spain, while living with a family for complete immersion will improve the teacher's fluency and provide opportunities to learn and then teach more effectively about Spain's culture.

JoAnn Killpatrick, Dean of Students
Lexington High School
Diversity Training: Participating in the week-long, Harvard University Summer Institute, Closing the Achievement Gap: Strategies for Excellence with Equity will allow her to bring best practices back to KHS as the school administration supports faculty efforts to close the achievement gap.

Cara Bean, Visual Arts Teacher
Lexington High School
Visual Arts: Attending a 5-day cartooning workshop at the Center for Cartoon Studies in Whitewater, VT, will provide the teacher with substantive material and skill to support students who are passionate about cartooning.

Julia Kuo, World History Teacher
Brooke Forrelli, World History Teacher
Lexington High School
Social Studies: Participation in the Primary Source study tour of India will enhance their teaching of the South Asian curriculum.

Althea Roy, Visual Arts Teacher
Clarke Middle School
Visual Arts: Participation in the Primary Source study tour, Historic China: East and West, will enhance the teaching of the Asian art curriculum.

In some rare instances, grants are awarded but subsequently returned by teachers who are unable to use their grants for personal or other reasons. While, for accurate accounting purposes, we include such grant amounts in the total dollar amount reported, we do not list the descriptions of those grants on our website or in our reports.