Faculty News

EARLY CHILDHOOD AND LOWER SCHOOL

DIRECTOR OF STUDENT SUCCESS

Emeri Ferguson P ’37

EARLY CHILDHOOD AND LOWER SCHOOL LITERACY COACH

Clark and Ferguson attended The Reading League’s annual conference in Syracuse, New York. The pair attended sessions on brain-based teaching, early childhood writing and spelling, and more to ensure early childhood and lower school continually updates curriculum to reach all learners.

Craig Jones

UPPER SCHOOL COUNSELOR

Victoria Pang

MIDDLE AND UPPER SCHOOL SOCIAL STUDIES

Kathy Lin

UPPER SCHOOL MATH

John Brown

UPPER SCHOOL HUMANITIES AND RESEARCH COORDINATOR

CJ Dison P ’21

UPPER SCHOOL ENGLISH

Dominic Seals

MIDDLE SCHOOL MATH AND SCIENCE

Tonderai Tomu P ’36

LOWER SCHOOL PHYSICAL EDUCATION

Jones, Pang, Lin, Brown, Dison, Seals, and Tomu attended the National Association of Independent Schools’ (NAIS) People of Color Conference. The conference offers educators the opportunity to come together, reflect on their individual experiences, and learn from one another.

Leonard co-authored a poem-interview in The American Poetry Review with friend and poet Matt Kelsey. His poem, “More Frank,” was featured as the daily poem on Poetry Daily’s poems.com.

EARLY CHILDHOOD MUSIC AND DRAMA SPECIALIST

Vigneron played harp and sang the national anthem during the swearingin ceremony for the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas’ new judge, Andria Noble.

Scholastic Book Clubs has licensed the reprint rights for the paperback version of Mixon’s book, “One Whole Me.” Her book will be sold through their school channels and was promoted in March 2023 as part of their spring book club for kindergarten and first grade.

Pang and Davis recently published “Using Historical Texts and Case Studies as Friction-Reducing Tools in Identity Novice Classrooms” in Ohio Social Studies Review. Building off previous studies, their article describes classroom techniques that keep students engaged while discussing identity and race.

Wellington Welcomes

New Faculty and Staff

Wellington is pleased to welcome one new member to our community this spring.

Berty finished her eighth marathon –The New York City Marathon – in record-high temperatures.

CityPulse Columbus interviewed Glover about directing Available Light Theatre’s performance of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ “Everybody.”

Was born in Brazil and speaks Portuguese

“I love seeing kids’ faces light up when they talk about something they’re passionate about!”