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Sanford Educators and Administrators Share Their Talent with Local and National Organizations

4/1/2016

Sanford’s teachers and administrators have been representing the school, and sharing their insights and expertise, at a variety of recent conferences and events.

First grade teacher Sue Bachtle was accepted to attend a Gates Foundation “Social Media Meetup” in Washington, DC last December. Focusing on philanthropy, the event gave participants a chance to talk with members of Gates’s Philanthropic Partnership program, learn more about innovative giving initiatives, and tour the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History with a curator. In her successful application, Sue wrote about her experiences working with adult learners through the VISTA program, when she realized she wanted to work with children.

On February 8th, Director of Development Janice Payne spoke at the Council for Advancement of Secondary Education Regional Conference in Philadelphia. Drawing on her experience with Sanford’s current capital campaign, she spoke about addressing changes during a campaign to an audience of private schools and college advancement staffs. Also on the panel was the Leapfrog Group, a company that integrates strategy and creative to provide innovative solutions to non-profit communications challenges for educational, healthcare, cultural, and advocacy organizations.

Head of Upper School Lynn Casto and a group of colleagues from the Charlotte Country Day School, Laurel School, and French American International School gave a workshop at the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) Annual Conference, held February 24–26 in San Francisco, California. The one-hour workshop, “Listening and Reflection: Two North Stars Guiding Authentic Independent School Leadership,” was presented to an audience of school heads and academic and administrative leaders. The workshop presented personal perspectives and strategies on effective school leadership through listening and reflection. Their presentation was selected out of a record-breaking group of 850 submissions.

Finally, on March 5, Lower School educators Patrick Martin, John Bell, and Cecilie Coker gave a presentation at the University of Delaware Educational Technology Conference (UDETC). They presented a curriculum plan that they developed with a summer grant. Workshop participants were given a lesson plan to create an 8-inch by 10-inch interactive solar electric sustainable house. After designing the layout of a house, they used the programming language Scratch to create a program that could play an audio file of each participant describing the layout of their house. The group was invited to speak to illustrate Sanford’s leadership in STEM education, highlighting the Lower School’s innovations.

Congratulations to all these talented Sanford ambassadors!

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