Faculty Summer Reading
Our summer reading as a faculty and a community has stayed with us, informing our decision-making, supporting our practices, and helping us to understand an increasingly complex world.
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Our summer reading as a faculty and a community has stayed with us, informing our decision-making, supporting our practices, and helping us to understand an increasingly complex world.
Throughout this past winter, many of you have been following the news of protests and counter-protests on college campuses about a host of issues. While activism and political engagement are important, much of what we have seen lately underscores the deep political polarization that now exists in the United States. It also throws into stark relief our current inability to engage in the type of meaningful dialogue that might lead to understanding rather than vilification and further strife.
Join us on Friday, June 7, 2024, as we recognize the graduates from the Class of 2024!
As a Dance Director at an independent school, Tessa works closely with student leaders, local choreographers, and her peers to showcase dance at Porter’s and encourage creativity and self-expression through dance.
Highlighting the real-world benefits of the required grade 12 AIS Professional Experience courses.
In early November, Miss Porter’s School was visited by best-selling poet and MacArthur Fellow Ocean Vuong.
How do we teach students about and prepare them to manage the philosophical and ethical implications of the impact AI will have on the world?
This past summer, every member of our faculty was asked to read one of five books related to different facets of our work with students.
Department chair and history teacher Lisa-Brit Wahlberg received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award in Teaching to Norway for the 2023-2024 academic year.
Congratulations to the 2023 Spring Awards Recipients
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