Category: PA Grant Reports

Exploring the Purpose
of Music Education

marcovescio April 24, 2020 No Comments

By Amy St. Louis, Lower School Music Teacher Thanks to the generous support of the MMFS Parents Association, I was able to continue working toward a Masters of Music Education from…

Social Thinking
in the Classroom

marcovescio April 17, 2020 No Comments

By Alexander Burr, Lower School Head Teacher In the spring of 2019 I received a grant from the MMFS Parents Association to create a series of lessons based on the Social…

International Philosophical Inquiry with Children Conference

marcovescio April 3, 2020 No Comments

By John Keenan, Upper School Teacher Thank you to the PA for supporting my travels to Bogotá, Colombia, for the 2019 conference of the International Council for Philosophical Inquiry with Children.…

Developing a New Social Studies Curriculum

marcovescio February 28, 2020 No Comments

By Luis Betancourt and Alexis Henin “What was the Trans-Saharan network and what was traded? What caused the fall of Ghana? Who was Sundiata Keita? What is Islam and what…

Digital Resources for Use
in Middle School Literacy

marcovescio February 7, 2020 No Comments

By Rosalie Osborn, Middle School Head Teacher For the past ten years I have had the opportunity to teach literacy in the middle school. Having come to MMFS with a…

Developing Black History Month Curricula
for Young Students

marcovescio January 10, 2020 No Comments

By Lower School Head Teacher, Alyssa Postman Putzel Last summer I researched and developed a Black History Month mini-unit for the kindergarten-3rd grade age classes in the lower school. I…

Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

marcovescio December 6, 2019 No Comments

By Annie Gruenwald, Upper School Head Social Studies Teacher This past summer I was honored to receive a PA grant to attend my second professional development seminar with the Gilder…

Social Thinking

marcovescio November 1, 2019 No Comments

By Bevin Daly, Lower School Language Therapist I am honored to be a faculty member at Mary McDowell Friends School, where professional growth is encouraged. I truly appreciate the opportunity…

Little Kids Rock:
Modern Band Summit

marcovescio October 11, 2019 No Comments

By John Grimsley, Middle School Associate Music Teacher In November of 2017, my co-teacher Catherine Leto-Carboy and I received training from a corporation called Little Kids Rock. This program has reached…

Studying Cuban Rhythms in Havana

marcovescio December 21, 2018 No Comments

By Taylor Watson, Upper School Head Music Teacher – August 2018 Last summer I was generously awarded a MMFS Parents Association Grant to study Cuban rhythms in Havana, Cuba. The goal was not…

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