More Artwork in Secondary to Share

Posting more great Secondary artwork. This artwork is currently on display (along with much more) at the entrance at Emerald Hill Road. My simple photography does not do the artwork credit. 

Teacher Professional Development Days

At the start of the school year, we spend 5 days on professional development with all staff, getting ready for the school year / enhancing our professional knowledge and writing curriculum, assessments etc.

Throughout the year, in addition to weekly staff meetings on Wednesday afternoons, where we focus on teaching and learning, and enhancing our knowledge (mostly on MYP this year, as we continue towards implementation), we also spend 3 days a year, throughout the year, on Professional Development as well.

Pictured is one of the many sessions that Mark Williams, our MYP Coordinator, led, helping develop and deepen our understanding of the MYP.

Pictured above is our Head of Student Services, Ms Favaro, leading Secondary Staff through various team-building and mindfulness activities.

Pictured above are the leaders of this year's United Nations Day, led by Ms Horan and many other hard working teachers. Our students did an amazing job of presenting to our staff about what their duties and responsibilities would be for the day. It is not an easy job speaking to teachers, and our students did exceptionally.

Secondary Visual Art on Display

I love looking at student artwork. It really is amazing how very talented our students are, and with great teaching and guidance, they come up with amazing projects.

Mr Unger's art classes recently displayed their work at the Emerald Hill Road entrance to school. Students spent weeks creating various cellophane displays of themselves (walking to school, on a swing, playing ...). The detail on these mannequins was really amazing, and the overall display was terrific.

Congratulations to our Head, Tyler Sherwood

Tyler Sherwood, Head of Chatsworth International School, has been awarded a fully-funded fellowship to the Klingenstein Center for Independent School Leadership’s 2015 Heads of Schools program at Teachers College, Columbia University. This distinguished honor established in 1991, is granted to just twenty heads of school annually. The award provides independent school leaders with an opportunity for focused professional enrichment, renewal and reflection.

For two weeks in January, visiting heads from around the world gather together at the Columbia
University Campus for intensive study to examine educational issues and policies facing independent
school educators. The Center attracts and selects educators who have demonstrated outstanding
accomplishment or potential for excellence and equips them with the knowledge, skills and values
necessary for informed and effective practice. Participants will focus on philosophy, research,
technology and governance. The 2015 cohort includes Heads from all areas of the United States in
addition to participants from Australia, Cayman Islands, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Singapore.

Columbia University Fellowship - Tyler Sherwood

Great quote from Facebook

While I normally scan through my Facebook feeds at a mile-a-minute, this little quote stopped me in my tracks. How powerful. How true.