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Trevor Magazine Winter 2019-20

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0 7 T R E V O R D AY S C H O O L n W I N T E R 2 0 1 9 – 2 0 2 0 Faculty Bulletins Spiro Gouras, Grade 3 Head Teacher, attended the Shelburne Farms Education For Sustainability (EFS) in Vermont. At this annual professional development workshop, teachers spend one week sharing ideas on sustainable education and learn from other practitioners from across the country. ey develop action plans involving sustainable practices, such as reducing food waste and carbon emissions at the infrastructure level and developing curricula to teach students about environmentally friendly living, food systems, and our natural ecosystem via place- based teaching. Spiro is excited to put these ideas to practice at Trevor this school year. Courtney Krings, Lower School Head Art Teacher, has one of her ceramic vases in FEELS NYC, "a vintage/vinyl/home-goods shop," in Ridgewood, Queens. It was also highlighted in the January 20th issue of New York Magazine's e Cut. Robert J. Sierakowski, Grades 9–12 History Teacher, published his first book, Sandinistas: A Moral History, through the University of Notre Dame Press. One review said that the book "offers a bold new perspective on the liberation movement that brought the Sandinista National Liberation Lauren Portada, Grades 9–12 Fine Arts Teacher, had a show entitled Night Blindness, at the Transmitter gallery in Bushwick, Brooklyn. It ran on week- ends from September 6th through October 6th. e gallery says of her work, "(the) excitement stems from the unease caused by her collapsing of space, with the variations in Maggie Keith, Annual Fund Director, and Anthony Gerakos were married August 24th in an outdoor ceremony in the mountains of Waitsfield, Vermont, surrounded by family and friends. Front to power in Nicaragua in 1979, overthrowing the longest- running dictatorship in Latin America. Unique sources, from trial transcripts to archival collections and oral histories, offer a new vantage point beyond geopolitics and ideologies to understand the central role that was played by everyday Nicaraguans." Robert also earned certification through Echoes & Reflections Educational Journey rough Poland, with Yad Vashem's International School for Holocaust Studies. Robert attended the 40-hour program as professional development for his Trevor class, Human Rights in World History, which started its third year this fall. Carly Gable Kulawitz, Lower School Music Teacher, and Eliot Samuel Bickoff were married July 4th at LaKota Oaks, an events space in Norwalk, Connecticut. eir wedding was featured in the New York Times wedding section.

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