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Tuesday, May 30, 2017

NAIS National Conference: Call for Proposals


 
 Knowing all the fantastic work that so many of you have done this year, the magic you have made happen in the classroom, in the BCI and Makerspace, on the stage and on the fields, I couldn’t pass up this opportunity to invite you to just think about offering a workshop at NAIS next March… and let the world know all the really cool things we are doing at Germantown Academy.

Consider the classes that made students and teachers excited.  Remember the moments of tremendous satisfaction.  The instances when imaginations soared. Step back in time to the beauty of special programs that crossed divisions and brought the school, joyously, together.

Let me know this week if you have an idea for a workshop, and I’d be thrilled to talk it over with you and help you put the proposal together. The conference topics are broad enough that almost any educational experience will fit somewhere. 
 
Click here for the NAIS Conference theme and mini-topics. 

Wednesday, May 3, 2017

Got Books? The Final GA Salon of 2016-17



On Thursday, April 20, the GA Salon convened for the final meeting of the year.  Mary Fraser’s brilliant suggestion to bring a few books we’ve read recently and would recommend to our colleagues resulted in an extensive list of excellent titles.  Thanks to the hard work of both Rod Thomas and Mary you now have a ready-made, annotated, and artfully illustrated collection of fiction, non-fiction, brand new novels, classics, historical fiction, and sci-fi, futuristic stories from which to make your summer selections. 


Click here and enjoy!