Innovation Spotlight: The Derryfield School (NH) Applause! Applause! OESIS Intrepid Innovator Award Recipients: • Lindley Schutz, Assistant Head of School for Academics, The Derryfield School (NH) Awarded to the Academic Administrator whose leadership is able to implement the school’s vision for innovative learning to program, faculty, and students while generating engagement and enthusiasm. • Samantha Mandeville, History Teacher, The Derryfield School (NH)
Lindley Schutz
Samantha Mandeville
Awarded to the teacher who has the courage to understand the needs of each student, engages individual students in a context that is comfortable, and makes personal learning a lifelong experience.
In this trailer from Mastery Based Blending and PBL in the APs and the Humanities, Lindley Schultz, Co-Dean of Academic Programs and Junior Head Class Advisor, The Derryfield School (NH) focuses on how to balance/integrate the required AP elements (rhetoric, research, communication) with innovative PBL. Hear how students studied topics ranging from AI, to Pro-Eating Disorder social media sites, the Opioid Crisis to the End of Reading and the Glass Ceiling in Politics, and developed websites, video games, infographics and videos to inform and persuade the public.
Samantha Mandeville, Middle School Teacher, The Derryfield School (NH) discusses applying what she learned from the OESIS Introductory PBL Cohort Pathway to teaching in a COVID environment in an interview with OESIS Vice President Joel Backon. She strives to help reach all students to develop critical thinking-skills and other competencies, to give students voice and choice in how they learn, and to make their learning truely authentic.