Title of Grant

Award Recipient(s)

School(s)

Video Production – The Lincoln School Education Technology specialist will attend an intensive program on film and video production for educators at Maine Media Workshops. Courses will cover technology and methodology and will explore practical aspects and new ways of teaching film and video in the classroom.

Sabrina Avnor

Lincoln

Using Yoga with Children with Special Needs – Two Early Education Program special educators will attend a workshop to learn methods for using yoga to improve self-regulation, motor skills, and communication in children with special needs. The workshop will address disabilities such as autism, sensory processing disorders, speech and language-based learning disabilities, and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.

Merrill Forman
Andrea Schuettler

BEEP

English Department Seminars – Members of the Brookline High School English Department will spend two days with Tufts University Professor Michael Downing, analyzing and discussing both a frequently taught English literature text and a text being considered for inclusion in the curriculum.

25+ English Department Educators

BHS

Frost Place Advanced Poetry Seminar – Brookline High School’s English Curriculum Coordinator will attend a week-long seminar in New Hampshire to hone her skills as a poet and inform her work as a teacher of creative writing.

Mary Burchenal

BHS

Multimedia Physics: Creating Videos to Enhance Physics Learning – Two Brookline High School Physics teachers will produce videos of demonstrations to be used in 9th grade Physics classes and made available online for student review. The videos will include topics involving long or elaborate setups, safety concerns, and other obstacles to obtaining optimal results in a “live” classroom setting.

Stacy Kissel, Tyler Wooley-Brown

BHS

Basketball, Bombs, and Bridges: A Study in Asian American Literature – Approximately 25 Brookline educators will participate in a literature study group focusing on Asian American stories and authors in order to better understand issues relevant to the experiences of Asian American students.

Alicia Hsu and approximately
25 Brookline Educators

Systemwide

Learning and the Brain Conference – Brookline’s Enrichment and Challenge Support (ECS) Program Coordinator and Resource Teachers will attend a conference on Learning and the Brain in the fall. The conference focuses on connections between cognitive development and learning and will build upon ECS’s ongoing work to better understand high achieving students who may think and learn in unique ways.

Diana Beck, Anne Carothers,
Leslie Fagen, Tanya Gregoire,
Tam Johnson, Debbie Mercer,
Carolyn Miller

Systemwide

National Science Teachers Association Conference – Brookline’s K - 8 Science Curriculum Coordinator will attend this national conference to explore new ideas in science education which will facilitate ongoing work in Science Program Review.

Janet MacNeil

Systemwide

EmPower: A Method for Teaching Expository Writing – In order to develop a consistent practice for teaching expository writing across the Learning Centers at Devotion School, three special educators will receive training and Level I certification in “EmPower,” an explicit, step-by-step method for teaching expository writing.

Elisabeth Pendery
Joan Kreie
Elisabeth Wolfson

Devotion

Closing the Gap: Real Applications for Assistive Technology  – Members of the Brookline Assistive Technology team will attend a conference to investigate practices that can provide classroom and special educators with strategies for differentiating instruction and to identify cost-effective tools to help special needs students be competent, independent, and motivated learners.

Gina Stefanini
MaryAnn Biele
Barbara Keenan
Latrisha Lamanna

BEEP
Devotion
Lincoln

Pedagogical, Linguistic, and Cultural Studies in Paris  – This 7/ 8 grade French teacher will renew and improve her own language skills and explore multiple areas of pedagogy, culture, and linguistics while living with a host family in Paris and attending the Accord Language School for teachers of French as a second language.

Marnie Weiss

Baker
Runkle

St. Johnsbury Academy: AP Institute  – Two BHS educators will attend a summer institute for high school English teachers to expand their repertoire and develop fresh strategies for teaching English Literature classes. 

John Andrews
Jenee Ramos

BHS

Exploration of the Teaching of Writing  – A Driscoll School 4th grade teacher will explore best practices in literacy instruction and effective techniques for curriculum development and planning at the Summer Writing Institute of Columbia University’s Teachers College.

Leanne Dellibove

Driscoll

Primary Source: Experiencing Japan in Kyoto and Beyond  – This project builds on a week-long seminar on Japan that the Brookline High School World Language Curriculum Coordinator attended last year. The grant funds a Primary Source study tour of Japan that will deepen her knowledge of the country and its language and will increase her ability to support the BHS Japanese program.

Agnes Alberola

BHS

Primary Source: East and Southeast Asia Study Tours – This 1st grade teacher attended a Primary Source seminar on China last year and now will travel there to obtain first-hand knowledge of the country and its culture for the Chinese-American study unit. A stipend from the Charlie Baker Legacy fund will allow her to expand her travels and studies to include Korea and other Southeast Asian countries.

Amy Winnick

Baker

Refilling the Gas Tank: Teachers Write to Refresh  – Two veteran 6/7/8 grade English teachers will pursue personal and professional renewal at an Iowa Summer Writing Festival workshop. As writer/ educators they will nourish their own writing talent, which, in turn, will enhance their teaching of creative and expository writing.

Susan Balogh
Jen Douglas

Baker

Boston Rocks! Two 6/7/8 science teachers will explore how geology has influenced structure design, construction methods, and settlement patterns in the Boston area. They will meet with experts in geology and engineering and identify real world connections between engineering and the Brookline science curriculum.

Deb Allen
Mark Goldner

Devotion
Heath

Bringing Yoga to the Classroom - Having successfully used yoga to help students learn to focus and deal with stress, this 6th grade teacher will study yoga at a Kripula workshop to learn additional techniques for personal and classroom use.

Kailin Fenn

Driscoll