Category: PA Grant Reports

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…

How Do We Know What We Know?

marcovescio December 14, 2018 No Comments

By Jenny Armstrong, Middle School Head Teacher; John Denton, Middle School Educational Technology Integrator; and Finlay Logan, Middle School Head Teacher How do we know what we know? What tools…

“To Kill A Mockingbird” – A Multisensory Approach

marcovescio November 28, 2018 No Comments

By Ben Kaplan, Upper School Head English Teacher When I was in ninth grade, I read To Kill a Mockingbird for the first time. It was a shattering and inspiring…