- Gina Braden is performing, in conjunction with Art on Purpose, in three exhibitions based on the topic of silence. Read more about her performances and the exhibitions HERE.
Update: April 5, 2007
- Josh Wolf, Middle School Modern Language Chair, has received the 2006 Friedel and Otto Eberspacher Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Modern Western European Languages.
The annual award is given by Johns Hopkins University?s Center for Talented Youth (CTY) and seeks to recognize outstanding teachers in modern languages. Students in CTY classes nominate teachers from local schools they feel have inspired them and fostered their knowledge and understanding of a foreign language and culture.
- Laura Amy Schlitz, Lower School librarian, is profiled as a storyteller in the April issue of Baltimore Magazine. Laura received wide media coverage this past fall for her two recent children's books: A Drowned Maiden's Hair and The Hero Schliemann. Follow this link to read a sampling of the national coverage of her books.
Update: March 29, 2007
- Park School Health Team members, Zella Adams, Deborah Roffman, and Dave Tracey will present ?Park Connects: Creating a Neighborhood at Your School? on Friday, April 13 at the AIMS Annual Heads Conference in Cambridge, MD.
Visit http://www.aimsmd.org/ to view the entire conference brochure and read about the Health Team's presentation.
Update: March 27, 2007
- Upper School Visual Arts teacher, Christine Tillman, currently has work being shown in three separate exhibitions: Natural (dis)Order at the Transformer Gallery in Washington, D.C.; Token at Pyramid Atlantic Art Center in Silver Spring, MD, and Emergent Behavior at Muhlenberg College, where she also spent a day as a visiting artist.
In April, Transformer Gallery will be taking pieces of Christine's work to artDC, a national art fair in Washington, D.C.
Read a review of Natural (dis)Order and see photos of Christine's work in the new D.C. art magazine Urbancode.
Update: March 9, 2007
- Six Park School teachers participated in the Saturday Seminars program at St. John?s College in Annapolis on February 24, 2007. Each 90-minute seminar was led by a St. John?s tutor and centered on discussion of one book.
Attendees from Park and the books they discussed include:
- Susan Asdourian (Plato, Hippias Minor)
- Howard Berkowitz (Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness)
- Gregory Brandt (Plato, Hippias Minor)
- Nadine Feiler (Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass)
- Patti Porcarelli (Jane Austen, Emma)
- Monica West (Richard Wright, Uncle Tom?s Children)
Update: February 27, 2007
- Director of Arts, Carolyn Sutton, was chosen to attend the TICA (Teacher Institute in Contemporary Arts) program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago this past summer. TICA is a professional development institute designed for experienced high school art teachers to study with leading artists and critics in the visual arts. Each session, a few teachers are invited to receive tuition, housing, and studio space at the Art Institute while they study.
- Susan Brown, Visual Arts chair, attended the National Gallery of Art?s Teacher Institute and studied Dutch Art in the Golden Age.
One of 28 teachers chosen from nationwide applicants to attend this prestigious seminar, Susan studied Dutch art of the 17th century, a period when the Netherlands enjoyed a "golden age" of economic success, world power, and prolific artistic production. Instruction concentrated on the National Gallery's collection of Dutch art, and emphasized direct encounters with original objects by such masters as Johannes Vermeer, Rembrandt van Rijn, Gerard ter Borch, Frans Hals, Judith Leyster, and Pieter de Hooch.
- Middle School science teacher and playwright Rich Espey?s Lightning Farmer, was performed in January by This Woman?s Work Theatre Company at the Rock Theater in Manhattan. It was one of the productions of an annual winter monologue festival. Rich worked on Lightning Farmer as a participant in Park's F. Parvin Sharpless Faculty and Curriculum Advancement program last summer.
Rich also received a 2007 Individual Artist Award in Playwriting by the Maryland State Arts Council. In addition, he is Chair of the Baltimore Playwrights Festival.
- On September 26, 2006, Upper School math teacher Marshall Gordon participated in a roundtable discussion sponsored by the Gates Foundation and hosted by the National Science Foundation.
The Gates Foundation goal was to gain an understanding of contemporary math programs and to discuss concerns about secondary school mathematics education in the United States.
Dr. Gordon spoke about the critical elements in designing a high school mathematics curriculum and took part in the discussion that followed. Participants included mathematicians, mathematics curriculum developers, mathematics education researchers.
- At the annual Association of Independent Maryland Schools (AIMS) conference, Park math teachers Tony Asdourian, Tim Howell, and Bill Tabrisky described their department's efforts to identify and carefully describe 'mathematical habits of mind' that now inform the core curriculum in the Upper School.
- English teachers Greg Brandt and Kevin Coll spoke at that conference about the creative analytical essay. They provided examples from students' work, including the critical appreciation, the favorite song project, the playbill, and the parody.
- Theater chair Peter King gave an acting workshop last fall at the Educational Theater Association Conference in Denver, Colorado.
- Doug Jameson, Upper School music teacher toured China from February 3-18 as a cellist with the Mantovani Orchestra. The orchestra performed in six cities, including Beijing and Shanghai.
contact: lbordeaux@parkschool.net
