Swing into Resonant Teaching (Part of the T&L Series)

COST:
$50 Non Series registrants

Free if your school is a registered for the series.  Please reach out to your school contact for the promo code.

Schools Registered for the T&L Series:
Solebury School
George School
Westtown School
Fanny Edel Falk Laboratory School
The Agnes Irwin School
Lancaster Country Day School
St. Joseph's Preparatory School
Academy of Notre Dame de Namur
The Janus School
Winchester Thurston School
St. Peter's School
Ancillae-Assumpta Academy
Germantown Academy
William Penn Charter School
Sanford School
Shady Side Academy
St. Edmund's Academy
Scranton Preparatory School
Villa Maria Academy High School
Friends' Central School

Act 48 Credits are available for this program. 

SESSION DETAILS & SPEAKER BIO

Tuesday, February 9, 3:30-5pm
Swing into Resonant Teaching
The dream for a teacher is to have students arrive to class each day, eager to learn the thoughtfully curated content you have to offer; students are enthusiastic to be with you, interact with you, and learn from you and with you. Meeting, knowing, and spending time with young people can bring such delight and joy. Resonant Teaching is a framework for being deliberate about how teachers connect with students, helping them develop as learners and more. When resonance is achieved, teachers and students seem to propel themselves forward, as if they are swinging at a playground on a spring day. This session is about exploring strategies for taking the purposeful craft of resonating with students from the mystical and metaphorical to the actionable.

Meet the Presenters: Devra Ramsey
Devra Eskin Ramsey has taught mathematics in independent schools and with students who attend them since she started her career in 1994. She earned her MSEd and teaching certificate for secondary mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania in 2000. She has taught in three Quaker schools, including Germantown Friends School, where she has been since 2012. Devra trained to lead Critical Friends Groups, which sparked and fueled her passion for working with fellow educators to reflect on and build their practice. She has received both formal and informal accolades from students throughout the years for resonating with them in her mathematics teaching.

Bob Wein
Bob Wein’s career started as a laser physicist, teaching at a university, preparing students for similar careers. With multiple detours through DoD work and government contracting, he has spent almost 30 years at independent schools after working on NSF grants to train teachers in underrepresented and urban districts. Bob has developed techniques to engage physics and engineering students at every level. Along with interventions co-designed with Harvard Graduate School of Education and Research Schools International, as well as transformational practices developed with Seeds of Change and Germantown Friends School. Bob now spends time spreading the idea of achieving resonance with students.