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MID-ATLANTIC EPISCOPAL SCHOOL ASSOCIATION
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MAESA Matters August 2018
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Greetings!
The summer is winding down and MAESA members are busy planning our fall events for you! Thank you to many who have already sent their school's renewal dues. Letters were mailed in July, and if you have not renewed your membership yet, you may mail a check or renew on-line. Complete details are on the
membership page. Thank you.
RSVP to the MAESA Members' Meeting & Luncheon September 21, at St. Andrew's Episcopal School, Potomac MD with keynote speaker Mr. Rodney Glasgow,
Head of Middle School and Chief Diversity Officer at
St. Andrew's Episcopal School
. This meeting is for our schools' leadership teams: heads of school, chaplains, directors of admissions, advancement, diversity, school's board members, senior staff and directors. A networking luncheon, sponsored by MAESA partner
CapX Solutions
, is planned and will offer you the chance to extend the conversation with one another on our keynote topics. To RSVP please e-mail Katherine Murphy
maesaschools@gmail.com
to confirm your attendance for the meeting at 10am and luncheon on Sept. 21, 2018.
Chaplains & Heads of School we hope that you've marked your calendars to bring your students to one of our two Episcopal Schools Day Services:
Oct 10th 10a.m. at Washington National Cathedral
we welcome our preacher
Lisa Kimball, PhD
from Virginia Theological Seminary.
Lisa is the Associate Dean for Lifelong Learning and Professor of Christian Formation and Congregational Leadership at Virginia Theological Seminary. Lisa’s now academic vocation began as a volunteer youth minister and Episcopal school substitute teacher in Menlo Park, California. Many years later, Lisa’s passion remains equipping people of all ages to claim their baptismal identities for lives of meaning and purpose.
Oct 17th 10a.m. at All Saints in Richmond we welcome our preacher
The Rev. Dr. Dorothy White, Chaplain and Department Chair at St. Catherine's School and MAESA Board of Governors member.
MAESA Early Childhood Educators Conference on October 26th It's time to register your teachers in early childhood and early elementary programs for the MAESA Conference. This year, in addition to preschool and kindergarten workshops, several workshops focus on material for teachers of children in kindergarten through 3rd grades. Take a look at our workshop descriptions and plan to register your faculty of all early childhood ages.
Download the details and the registration form
here
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"Why I Teach in an Episcopal School
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In our August feature
we hear from
Mr. Tim Brockway
, a veteran teacher at
St. Albans School, in Washington, D. C. as he reflects on the many lessons the boys have learned over the years he has taught at St. Albans. We'd love to feature one of your faculty members or a school activity in MAESA Matters.
Contact us
to be included.
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2018-2019 MAESA Event Dates
Mark Your School Calendar
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September 21, 2018 MAESA Member's Meeting
at
St. Andrew's Episcopal School.
Keynote speaker, Rodney Glasgow, Head of Middle School and Chief Diversity Officer at St. Andrew's Episcopal School, Potomac, MD.
Building and Sustaining a Diverse School Community
As our schools hold true to their Episcopal values and their commitments to harvesting a diverse learning and working environment, our morning together will explore the foundations of an inclusive school community. We will discuss key concepts as implicit bias, identity development, and child development, applying our learning age appropriately to K-12 settings. We will also discuss how to approach difficult conversations and situations around issues of diversity, and how to keep all constituencies - students, faculty, parents, and even board of trustees - moving forward together on diversity efforts, as well as how to balance voices and perspectives within our school communities. Our morning will be an exploration of the critical question: What is the role of Episcopal schools in the work of diversity?
MAESA Early Childhood Conference October 26, 2018
at
St. Stephen's & St. Agnes School
lower school campus
in Alexandria, VA. MAESA's 2018 conference features teacher-to-teacher workshops for our early childhood educators. Download the registration form
here
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"Why I Teach in an Episcopal School"
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St. Albans School
Washington, D.C.
By Tim Brockway
Fourth Grade Teacher
St. Albans School
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When I started my career at St. Albans School in August of 1986, I never envisioned that I would still be around 32 years later. The majority of my time at St. Albans has been spent in the classroom teaching Form C (Grade 4). St. Albans is a place where one does not think about the day-to-day routine as work, but rather as a calling. St. Albans allows an educator the freedom to explore many facets of the curriculum, while simultaneously challenging both students and educators to grow and learn. I am very fortunate to work with a new group of intellectually curious fourth graders each year. My goal is to make a positive impact on every student and to develop not only their minds, but to expand their wide-ranging interests in the world around them. I look forward to the time a student has his “aha” moment when he fully comprehends a concept presented in class. I am very fortunate to work with a gifted faculty, each bringing their own strengths and passion for teaching.
St. Albans is a school with a strong sense of history and tradition. Its fourth headmaster, Canon Charles Martin, was known to use the phrase, “Choose the hard right over the easy wrong.” We endeavor, on a daily basis, to challenge students, while at the same time, lead boys to be men of great character. Service to others is strongly rooted in the framework of the school. Our bi-weekly chapel services provide the boys with the moral and spiritual education to help them make good choices. Homilies are often given by fellow lower school students, as well as faculty, along with the lower school chaplain. These talks resonate with the boys and they often remember them years later. St. Albans strong sense of community is prevalent during, not only chapel services, but during lunch in our refectory, where the tradition of eating “family style” at a table filled with students of various grade levels - grades 4-8 - allows for positive interaction among the students and teachers at each table. There are even moments, during recess, where boys learn valuable lessons about how we treat our fellow students, and many “teachable” moments occur outside the classroom.
St. Albans boys are exposed to a demanding curriculum, a remarkable arts program and vigorous sports activities, that allows each boy to leave the school with strong sense of himself, as he ventures onto the next phase of his life.
Why do I teach at an Episcopal school? I go back to the school motto, “Pro Ecclesia et Pro Patria,” (for Church and Country). St. Albans instills in every student the strong sense of the spiritual, moral, intellectual rigors it takes to be a St. Albans man. One of impeccable character, whose sole purpose is to lead a life of service to others.
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Let us hear from you!
Katherine F. Murphy
MAESA Executive Director
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