RESEARCH IN SCHOOLS Global perspectives: School research centres By Dr Sarah Loch, Director of Research and Development
Lasting relationships were built with the schools and centres visited and we were welcomed warmly at each location; • Laurel Center for Research on Girls, Laurel School (Cleveland, Ohio, USA) • Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning, St. Andrew’s Episcopal School (Potomac, Maryland, USA) • Chandaria Research Centre, Branksome Hall (Toronto, Canada)
Katie Jackson and Sarah Loch with Dr Ian Kelleher, Head of Research, St. Andrew’s Episcopal School, Maryland.
We also met with a representative from the Fields Institute Centre for Math Education (Toronto, Canada) and visited the Science of Learning Institute at Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland, USA) and Havergal School (Toronto).
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ymble is preparing to establish a research centre as a hub for generating, attracting and communicating educational research both within and beyond the College community. To help us learn from the journeys of existing school research centres, with Mathematics teacher Katie Jackson, I embarked on a study tour to the United States and Canada. Katie had initiated a number of research projects into ways of teaching Mathematics during 2019 and both of us were excited to look at how teachers in other schools conducted and used research. The two-week tour covered three different school research centres in three cities, as well as two non-school research institutes and a fourth school with many similarities to Pymble.”
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Visiting Laurel School’s outdoor education campus with Mrs Hope Murphy, Director LCRG
Pymble Ladies’ College
