Photographs of the 2009 graduation ceremonies are now online. Click BBA Photo Albums in the left-hand column to view all the latest photographs.
For a full description of the ceremonies and a list of graduates please click here.
Monday, June 15, 2009
Graduation 2009
Photographs of the 2009 graduation ceremonies are now online. Click BBA Photo Albums in the left-hand column to view all the latest photographs.
For a full description of the ceremonies and a list of graduates please click here.
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Bill Muench Receives 2009 Ormbsy Hill Award
English teacher Bill Muench is the 2009 recipient of the Ormsby Hill Trust Fund for Excellence Award. Muench plans to use the grant to “travel, meet, interview and thank the guest speakers” who have addressed his students in his Space and Time class at Burr and Burton.
Muench started teaching the course five years ago to share his passion for space exploration with his students. “This class has evolved into a truly interdisciplinary course,” said Muench, who over the years has invited dozens of speakers to address the students, both in person and through teleconferencing. The award will give him the opportunity to visit space-related sites and meet the men and women who have been involved with space exploration. He will start his journey in Pasadena, California, at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and end at the Kennedy Space Center where he will have an front-row seat at the launch in August of the Space Shuttle Discovery. “I will videotape interviews with each person I visit and present the final project to my future students.”
The Ormsby Hill Trust Fund for Excellence provides selected teaching faculty of the school with the financial resources necessary to further their professional development in a profound way. Each year a grant is given to a teacher whose proposed program or project best fulfills the award’s goal of supporting the improvement of the school’s educational mission by enhancing the professional abilities of its teachers.
The object of the grant is to allow faculty members to get outside their routine and engage in activities that will re-energize them as passionate learners and committed teachers. The fund, established by the late Ed Latz, a Burr and Burton teacher and coach for over twenty-five years, is administered by the Board of Trustees as part of the school’s restricted endowment.
Muench started teaching the course five years ago to share his passion for space exploration with his students. “This class has evolved into a truly interdisciplinary course,” said Muench, who over the years has invited dozens of speakers to address the students, both in person and through teleconferencing. The award will give him the opportunity to visit space-related sites and meet the men and women who have been involved with space exploration. He will start his journey in Pasadena, California, at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and end at the Kennedy Space Center where he will have an front-row seat at the launch in August of the Space Shuttle Discovery. “I will videotape interviews with each person I visit and present the final project to my future students.”
The Ormsby Hill Trust Fund for Excellence provides selected teaching faculty of the school with the financial resources necessary to further their professional development in a profound way. Each year a grant is given to a teacher whose proposed program or project best fulfills the award’s goal of supporting the improvement of the school’s educational mission by enhancing the professional abilities of its teachers.
The object of the grant is to allow faculty members to get outside their routine and engage in activities that will re-energize them as passionate learners and committed teachers. The fund, established by the late Ed Latz, a Burr and Burton teacher and coach for over twenty-five years, is administered by the Board of Trustees as part of the school’s restricted endowment.
Math Teacher Cindy Mowry Receives 2009 Bigelow Award
Cindy Mowry, mathematics teacher and Mountain Semester committee member, is the 2009 recipient of the David Bigelow Fund for Excellence Award. Mowry will use the grant to take a National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) course and experience a wilderness adventure that will help her inspire students in wilderness education.
Mowry, who has been studying place-based and environmental education for the past four years, is enthusiastic about more about how to lead backpacking trips, leadership strategies, on-trail teaching methods, and experiential learning. “NOLS is the leaders in wilderness education and I see this course as fulfilling two goals,” said Mowry, “to inspire me to become a better leader and to reaffirm my love for the wilderness.”
The David Bigelow Fund for Excellence was established by the Bigelow family to honor alumnus and longtime trustee David Bigelow who died in 1998. The purpose of this endowed fund is to give the teaching faculty of the school the financial resources necessary to further their professional development, which will in turn enhance their ability to provide the highest quality education to the students of Burr and Burton Academy.
Faculty members are invited annually to “think outside the box” and write a proposal that goes to the heart of who they are as teachers and enriches their passion for teaching. Previous recipients of the Bigelow Award include social studies teacher John Graf, who traveled in the footsteps of Lewis and Clark, Arts Department Chair Betsy Hubner who fulfilled a dream to paint in Ireland, and Julie Freebern who studied medieval music in England. The fund is administered by the Board of Trustees as part of the school’s restricted endowment.
Mowry, who has been studying place-based and environmental education for the past four years, is enthusiastic about more about how to lead backpacking trips, leadership strategies, on-trail teaching methods, and experiential learning. “NOLS is the leaders in wilderness education and I see this course as fulfilling two goals,” said Mowry, “to inspire me to become a better leader and to reaffirm my love for the wilderness.”
The David Bigelow Fund for Excellence was established by the Bigelow family to honor alumnus and longtime trustee David Bigelow who died in 1998. The purpose of this endowed fund is to give the teaching faculty of the school the financial resources necessary to further their professional development, which will in turn enhance their ability to provide the highest quality education to the students of Burr and Burton Academy.
Faculty members are invited annually to “think outside the box” and write a proposal that goes to the heart of who they are as teachers and enriches their passion for teaching. Previous recipients of the Bigelow Award include social studies teacher John Graf, who traveled in the footsteps of Lewis and Clark, Arts Department Chair Betsy Hubner who fulfilled a dream to paint in Ireland, and Julie Freebern who studied medieval music in England. The fund is administered by the Board of Trustees as part of the school’s restricted endowment.
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