{"id":3405,"date":"2015-06-10T04:13:47","date_gmt":"2015-06-10T04:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/?p=3405"},"modified":"2018-10-11T17:07:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T17:07:00","slug":"fieldston-awards-sabbaticals-cury-rowe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/2015\/06\/fieldston-awards-sabbaticals-cury-rowe\/","title":{"rendered":"Fieldston Awards Sabbaticals to Cury and Rowe"},"content":{"rendered":"

This year, Fieldston gave sabbaticals to two teachers: Jose Cury and Blake Rowe.<\/span><\/p>\n

Every year, the administration awards sabbaticals to teachers who have been at the school for at least ten years so that faculty may pursue interests outside the ECFS community. This opportunity allows teachers to seek \u201cindividual, academic, or professional development.\u201d The sabbatical application process is headed by Assistant Head of School, Noni Lopez. Shortly before winter break, Ms. Lopez sends guidelines to faculty for the sabbatical process. Interested teachers write their plans and goals in an application. Three weeks after teachers submit their applications, Dr. Damian Fernandez informs the school of his decision. \u201cThe sabbatical is intended to provide the recipient with a special opportunity to engage in some professional development that will result in learning, growth reflection, and ultimately have a positive impact on the school upon the recipient\u2019s return,\u201d Ms. Lopez stated. \u201cThe expectation is that sabbatical recipients will spend the year engaged in professional development that will result in a positive and palpable impact on the school and the recipient\u2019s students and colleagues. How this looks is up to the recipient.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Cury intends\u00a0<\/b>on leaving a lasting impression on the students<\/b><\/p>\n

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Next year, Jose Cury will do just that. He will be volunteering at a public high school in the Dominican Republic\u2019s capital and largest city, Santo Domingo. Though he will only be there for a year, Cury intends on leaving a lasting impression on the students by improving both their problem solving and technology skills.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlthough I\u2019m proud to be an American, there is definitely a part of my being after living here for 30 years that has longed to go back,\u201d Cury said. \u201cThis place has a special place in my heart, where family and friends reside.\u201d Cury, who was born in the DR, wants to contribute to the growth of his birth country.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs an educator, I feel that my life\u2019s calling is to impart knowledge,\u201d Cury said. \u201cI want to offer all I\u2019ve learned to children who attend a broken, dysfunctional public education system. I feel I need to recharge my batteries by giving something back.\u201d Students and faculty alike will miss Mr. Cury\u2019s presence at the school. His new students next year will undoubtedly benefit from his willingness to help, his creativity, and his passion for mathematics. Will Landis, (V) has been in Mr. Cury\u2019s class for the entirity of junior year.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Jose Cury] has definitely become one of my favorite teachers at Fieldston,\u201d Landis said. \u201cEvery single day is a new mathematical journey. The entire math department and school will miss him next year.\u201d<\/p>\n

Blake Rowe, who has been teaching at ECFS since 1989, plans to work on his music. Aware of his ambitious goals, Rowe want to focus much of his time on his main instrument, piano. Recently, his friend wrote a musical that Rowe says has a lot of potential, so Rowe plans on writing its score. He will train at the OrffSchulwerk music pedagogy system, which focuses on improvisation, movement, and pitched percussion instrument skills. In addition, he will spend<\/p>\n

time learning how to use computers to compose music, a skill that he claims has eluded him. \u201cI probably have an unrealistic idea of how much I can accomplish,\u201d Rowe said, \u201cbut this kind of opportunity only comes once.\u201d<\/p>\n

When asked what he will miss most about Fieldston, Mr. Rowe said, \u201c The awesome students at ECFS, of course! I realized the other day that this is my last year with my fourth graders, and I won\u2019t have the chance to see them be the oldest grade at Fieldston Lower. I\u2019m glad to be taking the sabbatical now,\u201d Rowe said, \u201cso that I can return full of energy and new ideas to share for many years to come.\u201d<\/p>\n

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I probably have an unrealistic idea of how much I can accomplish, but this kind of opportunity only comes once.<\/p>\n

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This year, Fieldston gave sabbaticals to two teachers: Jose Cury and Blake Rowe. Every year, the administration awards sabbaticals to teachers who have been at the school for at least ten years so that faculty may pursue interests outside the ECFS community. This opportunity allows teachers to seek \u201cindividual, academic, or professional development.\u201d The sabbatical application process is headed by Assistant Head of School, Noni Lopez. Shortly before winter break, Ms. Lopez sends guidelines to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[318],"tags":[],"coauthors":[246],"class_list":["post-3405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3405"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3408,"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3405\/revisions\/3408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3405"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}