Speaker Series: America’s Teacher of the Year

Speaker Series: America’s Teacher of the Year

Thursday, April 12, 2018 6:00PM

6:00 pm — Reception (with hors d'oeuvre and a cash bar)

7:00 pm — Lecture

Meet the 2017 National Teacher of the Year, Sydney Chaffee, a humanities teacher at Codman Academy Charter Public School in Boston.

Sydney takes risks every day to improve learning for all of her students. In the classroom, she strives to create lessons that demonstrate how education can be a transformative tool for social justice, and she encourages her students to see themselves as having the power to make change in the world based on lessons from the past.

"Education must be authentic. There is no use in studying history if we believe it to be static and irrelevant to the future," she says. "Authentic learning enables students to see and create connections in the world around them."

She tries to infuse the hard work of learning with joy, not only in her classroom but throughout the school. For example, she is the coordinator of a schoolwide Community Circle every Thursday where all students in the school come together to celebrate successes, share good news and dig into serious conversations together.

Don’t miss what is sure to be an inspiring lecture for all concerned about the state of education in America today.

Pricing: $10 OSV Members, $12 Non-Members

Purchase your ticket here: https://10797.blackbaudhosting.com/10797/Speaker-Series-Sydney-Chaffee-12Apr2018

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