Monthly Archives: March 2013
Monthly Archives: March 2013
Welcome to our new website!
Categories: Notes from the Director
After over six months of planning, organizing and designing, the Teaching Fellows Institute’s new web site is live! Please look it over and send me your comments and suggestions! We hope to have three to four TFI Alumni Fellows blogging on an alternating basis. If you might be interested in helping TFI by blogging on […]
Check out the blog of teacher Jill Thompson
Categories: Notes from the Director
Don’t forget to follow the blog of Jill Thompson, J.V. Washam Elementary teacher and Class of 2012 TFI Fellow, Inside the Classroom, Outside the Box. It has great information, techniques and observations!
Writing on Purpose: Deborah Brown speaks at TEDxCharlotteED
Categories: Notes from the Director
On February 14th, Deborah Brown, 9th Grade English Teacher at Garinger High School and 2012 TFI Fellow, thrilled the audience at TEDxCharlotteED with her TED talk “Writing on Purpose!” Video of Deborah’s TED talk will be available soon and posted here. Here’s a video from the event: TEDxCharlotteED from Tonya Russ Price on Vimeo. And […]
Public and private schools to working together
Categories: Notes from the Director
Tom Franz (headmaster of Trinity Episcopal School and TFI Board of Directors member) and CMS Superintendent Heath Morrison recently discussed the need for public and private schools to work together for the good of all students. The Charlotte Observer cites TFI as model of this ideal since 2005.
Andrew Cambruzzi featured in the Charlotte Observer
Categories: Notes from the Director
The TFI experience inspires all TFI Fellows to the excellence and leadership that 2012 Fellow Andrew Cambruzzi exhibits each school day at Crestdale Middle School as highlighted by the Charlotte Observer in a recent article Congratulations Andrew!
