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Reading Myths Debunked: e Many Ways Young Children Learn to Read Rachel Rosenberg, Lower School Literacy Specialist, and Michelle Wu, First Grade Head Teacher, teamed up to give parents insight into Trevor's reading instruction program. is interactive class investigated the many ways in which children learn to read and also provided parents with a toolkit for supporting their children at home. 1 1 T R E V O R D AY S C H O O L n S U M M E R 2 0 2 1 – 2 0 2 2 Hispanic Cinema Analysis: e Loss of Innocence in the Face of Social and Political Changes Within the context of screening portions of the Chilean film, Machuca, participants discussed political changes, America's influence, and repressive dictatorships in Latin American countries during the 1970s and 1980s—with a focus on how these challenges affected children and their view of the world around them. World Language Department Chair, Laura Spalding, based the class format on her advanced Spanish class. A parent remarked, "Señora Spalding was wonderful. I really appreciated the articles, the movie clips we watched, and the personal stories she shared. e experience and conversation were both very moving." Understanding & Manipulating the Molecular World So much information was packed into this class that it required two back-to-back sessions. It was modeled after Trevor's Coordinated Science program—a unique foundation for the interdisciplinary study of science in college and graduate school. In Upper School Science Department Chair Jeff Tam's section, attendees participated in a chemistry experiment with five different types of chemical reactions. His colleague Jamie McClintock followed—exploring CRISPR and the gene-editing revolution. He asked students to imagine what might happen if you could change the DNA inside any cell; how would this affect life on Earth? Lastly, Eli Kengmana '15, who is a PhD candidate working in the Schulman Lab's Chemistry-Biology Interface Program at Johns Hopkins University, joined his former science teachers to describe what is happening at the molecular level that leads to large-scale manifestations that we can visualize. Eli further explained manipulations that today can be made with common molecules such as DNA. Eli playing guitar at Trevor.