Reflections on our journey… › Educational Leadership and Policy in D.C. 2019

It’s Dr. Blosser here to blog for the last time on our trip.  What a great group and a fabulous two weeks! Today is our final full day in D.C. and we spent the morning in class debriefing all we’ve seen and learned. There was a general consensus that we’ve all learned more about ourselves- […]

Hi everyone, Maleia here again! Today I am going to be writing about our visit with ASCD. ASCD is an “organization that develops programs, products, and services essential to the way educators learn, teach, and lead”. In short, it is the perfect place for a group of future educators to visit in terms of discovering […]

Hello, fellow global citizens, it is Kaila coming at you live at The Washington Center! This afternoon after visiting the ASCD we got the opportunity to go to the National Science Foundation or NSF for short. As a science teacher, I was very excited about this experience. In my head, I had pictured this place […]

It’s Jessica again and I’m here to tell you about our visit to National Geographic! As we walked in to National Geographic we were greeted by Meghan Modafferi, the Senior Program Manager of Education. Meghan was a former teacher and now works at National Geographic designing, overseeing, and leading the education initiatives at their Washington […]

Hey, Amber here. Today on our way to meet with Congressman Ted Budd I noticed a fitting sign. The sign said, “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has” -Margaret Mead. This encompasses exactly who we are: we are a small […]

Hello, fellow global citizens! It’s Kaila here coming at you live from The Washington Center. This week on Monday we met with Christopher Mesaros a Senior LEAD Instructor from The Washington Center to discuss writing a teaching philosophy statement. Despite the groans and moans from the lack of caffeine in our systems, Chris insisted we […]

Hey, everyone, this is Amber. I am here to tell you about how awesome our meeting was with Christine DonFrancesco and Elic Senter. Christine DonFrancesco is the Senior Policy Analyst of the National Education Association’s Center for Education Policy and Practice. Elic Senter is the Manager of Education Policy and Practice at the National Education […]

                                    Hello once again, ED Family, Richard here! Today is day eight, and we have done so much in very little time. In this blog post, I am going to be briefing you on our visit to the […]

Hello friends! It’s Stephanie here to tell you about our activity on the afternoon of May 22nd. We visited The SEED School, a public coed charter boarding school in the District of Columbia Public Schools. The SEED School of DC was founded in 1998. The SEED School opened its doors as the first public boarding […]

Hey everyone, this is Jessica and I am sharing with you our experience at The Department of Education! As we walked through the doors the first thing we saw was The Department of Education’s mission statement (fitting considering the day before we were creating our own mission statements) saying, “The Department of Education’s mission is […]