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Nantucket New School Faculty Receives Honors
Gage Dobbins, Assistant Head for Development & Communications, has been selected as one of twenty-five educators in the country to participate in the Girls Leadership Institute this April in New York City. The centerpiece of the Institute is the Girl Meets World curriculum, which teaches middle and high school girls critical skills for authentic self-expression, emotional self-awareness, and interpersonal efficacy. Taught by bestselling author and educator Rachel Simmons (Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls and The Curse of the Good Girl: Raising Authentic Girls with Courage and Confidence), the program trains participants to deliver the highest quality social-emotional education for girls.
For nearly ten years, the Girl Meets World curriculum has been taught at the GLI summer camp, parent-daughter workshops and schools all over the world, including the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa.
Attendees receive a rigorous grounding in the latest research and theories on girls' development, relationships and aggression; practice teaching sections of the curriculum; and learn the games and activities that are the hallmark of the Girls Leadership Institute.
Joni Amaral, third grade teacher, has been chosen to give a presentation this June at the VSA International Arts Conference in Washington, D.C. Joni's presentation will focus on the integration of the arts into all areas of the curriculum. This has been a focus of her graduate work at Lesley University, and she has conducted workshops on the topic for our faculty and the faculty at Central Elementary School in East Bridgewater. We are proud to have one of our teachers play a leadership role at such a prominent and widely attended event.
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