Many WW-P faculty members will be participants in the 2006-’07 Princeton University “Teachers as Scholars” program, a partnership between Princeton University and surrounding school districts formed with the objective of providing scholarly and intellectually engaging opportunities for teachers. The program provides seminars for area teachers taught by faculty and staff from Princeton University to promote the idea of life-long learning.##M:[more]##
WW-P teachers include — from Dutch Neck School: Rosemary Geel, “Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales;” and Denise Nugent, “Ancient Egypt and its Hieroglyphs.”
Village School: Rick Heckman, “Numbers of Every Kind.”
Wicoff School: Donna Wyllie: “Fast Talking Dames and Democratic Culture.”
Millstone River School: Heidi Wachtin, “The Nature and Use of Human Language;” and Hugh Green, “Black Holes.”
Community Middle School: Patricia Conover, “Fast Talking Dames and Democratic Culture;” Wanda Rinker, “The Process of Scientific Discovery;” Donna Broome, “The Little Rock School Integration Crisis, 1957-1959” and Peter Vroom, “Einstein.”
Grover Middle School: Lisa Witt-Pinaire, “Children, Grownups, and Wild Things: Classics by Sendak, Kipling, Harrell, and E. B. White;” and Mary Parker, “Contemporary Fiction.”
High School North: James McCulloch, “Navigating the Horse Latitudes, Program in Creative Writing;” Carolyn SooHoo, “Engineering in the Modern World;” Joseph Bossio, “The Origins of Modern Science, 1500-1700;” and Robert Vogt, “Picturing Paris in Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Painting.”
High School South: Neil Brown, “Why Can’t the United States Get Its Act Together with the International Human Rights System?”