Celebrating the Arts - Dwight-Englewood School

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28 Members of the D-E community exemplify the Core Value of “community” every day. Here are just a few examples of our student and faculty members’ recent initiatives and notable accomplishments. Dwight-Englewood School STUDENTSTANDOUTS&FACULTYENDEAVORS Olivia Guidera ’11 (center) with Coaches Kim Franco and Michelle Carstens, after the North Jersey Field Hockey Coaches Association senior showcase game. Olivia Guidera ’11 The milestones just kept coming this winter for miler Olivia Guidera ’11, who made D-E School history in February by becoming the first Dwight- Englewood athlete to medal in a State Group championship. In the Non-Public B Girls 1600-meter run, Olivia made a final lap charge, sweeping past her four opponents for a finish that took sixth place in the race, knocked six seconds off her best time, and qualified her for the NJ Indoor State Meet of Champions. Earlier in the season, Olivia won the 1600-meter race at the North Jersey Track and Field Championship at the Rothman Center of Farleigh Dickinson University. It marked the first time since 1992 that a Dwight-Englewood athlete won a winter track varsity event. While her individual achievements are impressive, Olivia is very much a team player and team leader. A four-year starter for the varsity field hockey team, she served as captain in 2009 and 2010 and received league and county honors. Deflecting praise, she notes, “The D-E coaches are great. They help to build teams that are very close, amidst players with many different perspectives. At the same time, we have fun, and [with their guidance], we see that we all bring a different strength to the table.” Off the track and field, Olivia is copresident of the D-E Gay Straight Alliance Club (GSA), a member of the Yearbook staff, and a student with environmental science aspirations. This year she is enrolled in Honors Chemistry and Honors Biology classes, and she also enjoys AP Environmental Sciences with D-E Upper School Science faculty member Don McNeil, whom she describes as “awesome.” Her Senior Focus Project is concentrated on the critical environmental issue of water safety, in part based on a service project she did in Thailand several years ago.
Alexander Koren ’12 The competitions hosted by the International Juggler’s Association (IJA) sound like a lot of clowning around. For example, there is the soap juggling contest to see who can juggle wet soap for the longest time, and a contest called trick matching, in which someone names a trick and a juggler must perform it to stay in the competition. But for Alex Koren ’12, juggling is a serious passion. He’s was the kid who taught himself to juggle at the age of nine by picking up three tennis balls and practicing every day for hours and hours, “inside, outside, and everywhere.” Today he can handle various numbers and kinds of balls, clubs, yo-yos, and other items. In fact, at a recent IJA festival in Pittsburgh, Alex won a first place medal in Chinese yo-yo speed tossing and was third in the blind juggling contest, which involves juggling with eyes closed. Alex’s passion for juggling led him to found the D-E Juggling Club in 2009. (See d-ejuggling.org for video clips of the group.) When his club was approved by Faculty Member Publishes Mystery, Proceeds Benefit Human Rights Group Longtime D-E photography teacher and Yearbook faculty advisor John McCabe has published his murder mystery, Johnny Red, to raise funds for a human rights group. For several years, Johnny Red has been included in the D-E Community of Readers Program and has met with a positive response from many students. McCabe notes, “It’s enjoyable to not only talk about my book with students and to hear their reactions to it, but I also enjoy sharing the actual process of writing with them.” All proceeds from sales of Johnny Red will be devoted to the National Labor Committee (NLC), a nonprofit organization dedicated to eliminating child labor and sweatshop abuses. The NLC has visited D-E several times as part of the Upper School assembly program and, with help from students across the country, has made a huge difference in assisting hardworking people who live in unimaginable poverty. Above: The front cover of Johnny Red, a murder mystery by D-E photography faculty member John McCabe, features a photo of McCabe’s son Dan ’02 on a New York street. Alex Koren ’12 demonstrates his juggling talent. the School, Alex felt a strong sense of being supported as an individual. He says, “The School made me feel like I was accepted, even with a hobby that was off the beaten track.” Since then, Alex has introduced other club members to the joys of competition. At the IJA festival in Pittsburgh, Vice President Andre Amirsaleh ’13 made it into the finals of the Chinese yo-yo high toss. Alex has been to juggling conventions in such places as Lexington, KY, and Winston-Salem, NC, and says that these Males Earns Doctorate gatherings help him to continue to learn from fellow jugglers from around the world. He proudly notes that the ethos of the Juggling Club also involves teaching and learning. “Everyone participates in teaching others, and some have even made the effort to visit senior centers to put on a performance,” he says of club members. “It’s a great feeling seeing the skills that the Juggling Club shares, being transformed into a passion by fellow students.” Alex balances his love for juggling with playing guitar in the Jazz Rock ensemble, playing soccer, and of course keeping up with his academic work. His favorite classes include Philosophy and Computer Sciences because they “broaden my mind and make me look at subjects from a different perspective.” Believe it or not, he says, juggling has made him a better student. “I came to realize that without my juggling, my work ethic wouldn’t be what it is today,” he says. “Juggling has taught me that when I make a mistake, I can try again until I get it right.” Science faculty member Nancy Males received a doctoral degree in educational leadership earlier this spring, with a concentration in educational technology, from University of Phoenix. She started the program four years ago; the majority of her course work was taken online, with residencies each summer in Washington, DC. Her dissertation addressed how public teachers in Abbott districts in New Jersey integrate technology into their classrooms. Designated by the New Jersey Supreme Court, Abbott districts are low-performing districts that have students with a low socioeconomic status. Males hypothesized that teachers who were new to teaching and teachers who were new to their school (experienced or not) would use technology less because of the stress of being in a new classroom. This is a particularly important issue since there is a high turnover rate of faculty in these schools. What she found was that experience level, age, and education level are important factors in whether or not a teacher integrates technology. “The research was a wonderful experience. The educational technology portion is something I’m extremely interested in,” says Males. “In fact, one reason I came to D-E was because of the emphasis on technology, particularly the tablet program. I hope to use the experience gained from my doctoral program to continue looking for and trying out the best practices involved in educational technology in my classroom.” Males, whose daughter Kelly teaches 4th grade in the Lower School, holds her B.S. and M.S. from Texas A & M University and has been at Dwight-Englewood since 2005. Spring 2011 29
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