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THE ADAM RUSSELL GELFAND FELLOWSHIP
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The
Adam Russell Gelfand Fellowship is a specially named teacher grant
program administered by the Brookline Education Foundation. Funding
for the program was provided with the generous support of the
Gelfand’s friends and family members and the Adam Russell
Gelfand Family Trust. Recipients of the Fellowship are Brookline
Public School teachers. Each year, teachers apply to the Brookline
Education Foundation as part of its Teacher Grants Program, and
a teacher and his/her proposal that represents all or many of
the goals of the Gelfand Fellow Program is selected as that year's
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Goals
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- To
commemorate the life of Adam Russell Gelfand and his love of
education and to create a lasting tribute to his memory
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To honor each year an outstanding Brookline Public School teacher
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provide the financial resources to support the professional
development of each Gelfand fellow through a grant, such grant
to be used for continuing education/training, travel, curriculum
development/ enrichment, or other similar pursuit
- To
recognize the importance of geography, mathematics, and poetry
as part of the elementary curriculum in the Brookline Public
Schools and to encourage innovation in their teaching
- To
acknowledge the unique relationship that can exist between teachers
and their students
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Recipients
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2008
Lawrence School's Sharon Kiernan will tour Barcelona, Spain, documenting the city’s numerous architectural styles, including that of Antoni Gaudi and the Spanish Art Nouveau movement. Through her photographs and observations, she will take her third grade structures classes on a virtual tour of Barcelona that illustrates the role of imagination, form, function, and design in the building process.
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2007
Amy Neale, the librarian at Driscoll School, will participate in a two-week Primary Source study tour of Ghana. Her goal is to enhance grades 2, 6, and 7 units about West Africa.
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2006
Justin Brown,
a 4th-grade teacher at the Lawrence School, attended a 4-week intensive
Japanese language summer program at the Boston Language Institute. Through this program, Mr. Brown hopes to increase his ability
to communicate with the many Japanese-speaking students, parents,
and teachers at Lawrence, which is the home of Brookline’s
Japanese ELL Program. |
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2005
Patricia
Rigley,
a 7th- and 8th-grade English teacher at the Lincoln School traveled
to key locations featured in the literature of John Steinbeck, including
Salinas, Monterey, and Soledad, California. She also visited the
National Steinbeck Center in Salinas and the Center for Steinbeck
Studies at San Jose University. |
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2004
Deborah
Allen, Devotion School’s 7/8 grade science teacher
traveled to the high-desert ecosystems of northern New Mexico
and Arizona to explore the natural and social history of the region. |
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2003
Elizabeth
Cook, Lincoln School’s literacy specialist, spent
a week at Harvard University at the Teachers as Scholars Summer
Writing Institute. Participants completed one poem, one non-fiction
piece, and one fiction piece. |
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2002
Roger
Grande, BHS Social Studies teacher, traveled to Spain
to study the “Convivencia”—the period from the
8th to the 15th centuries when Jews, Muslims and Christians lived
together throughout the region—sometimes peacefully and
other times at war. |
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2001
Suzanne
Zobel, Lincoln School 7/8 grade science teacher, traveled
to Churchill, Manitoba to participate in the Earthwatch Institutes’s
research expedition “Climate Change in the Arctic.”
The expedition focused on the impact of global warming on the
arctic ecosystem. |
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