LabLifethe magazine for alumni, parents, and friends of the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools Spring 2016 SPRING 2016 in this issue In the Halls

FEATURES DEPARTMENTS 22 ArtsFest 03 In the Halls 26 The Love Never 04 The Bookshelf Start your engines— Stops 11 Sports Highlights 28 Voice of Discomfort 13 In the World LabLife 32 Clustered Learning 17 Behind the Scenes 18 Lab in Pictures finally 36 Throwback 37 Alumni Notes Science curriculum reshapes the “car project” 46 Alumni in Action as an eighth grade activity

FROM DIRECTOR ROBIN APPLEBY “It is exciting to be at a point when we can Looking begin to focus less on managing the daily back, challenges of construction and new facilities, and more on the opportunities Lab has looking been given to maximize the potential of our ahead people and our educational programs.”

As we end another school year, Thinking strategically about Campus including, for the first these programs that keep Lab this is a good moment to reflect our future time ever, all four floors of Judd connected to our community, on all that our community has To most effectively maximize Hall. Over nearly a decade, Lab create new professional growth accomplished this year, and Lab’s opportunities, we will has thoughtfully and actively opportunities for faculty, and to share plans for Lab’s future engage in a community-wide planned for growth and we will result in essential and innovative strategic efforts. strategic planning process which have six sections in each grade up hands-on learning opportunities will include faculty, staff, parents, through fifth grade next year. Our for students. Reflecting on Lab’s students, alumni, and our admissions team has worked hard It is exciting to be at a point accomplishments University partners. While there to identify the best candidates for when we can begin to focus less Since school began in September, is already general agreement that our expanding Middle and High on managing the daily challenges Lab has: the success of the Lab+ project Schools. In the fall, we will enroll of construction and new facilities, > celebrated the opening of will allow our next strategic approximately 34 additional and more on the opportunities What? Wait. Really? We’re not Another student “and that lets them take the Gordon Parks Arts Hall; plan to be focused primarily students to sixth grade, and 46 Lab has been given to maximize doing cars this year? project further,” including more on people and programs rather additional students to ninth the potential of our people and Many sixth graders felt taught her car ambitious special features. This > hosted the three-day, 27-person than facilities, we need time to grade—including four High our educational programs. surprise back in 2013–14, year one student redirected Independent Schools Association a neat trick: to develop a shared understanding Jump students (high achieving The strategic planning process when a strategic shuffling of some of the power from the of the Central States (ISACS) of our aspirations. We will ahead will allow us to dream big students who come from families the Middle School science roll over and lights to the wheels, upping the accreditation team visit; engage a strategic planning of limited economic means), about how to both maintain the consultant to partner with Lab curriculum moved the car vroom factor without burning > completed two major leadership the fantastic result of Lab’s most important and meaningful continue moving and guide a comprehensive partnership with the High Jump traditions of a Laboratory Schools project, a much-anticipated out his motor. Another student searches for next year; process. The timing is excellent organization. education, and establish new part of the sixth-grade Lab on a second set of taught her car a neat trick: to > developed our partnership with as our strategic planning work The growth of the student opportunities for the future. experience, to the eighth wheels on its roof. roll over and continue moving the University of Chicago Charter will dovetail nicely with the population will, of course, be Through this comprehensive grade. But now the class of on a second set of wheels Schools; completion of our ISACS supported by parallel growth of process, we will ensure that 2020’s two-year wait is over, on its roof. Further out the reaccreditation, which included a more years of math,” says the faculty and staff. Individual Lab remains one of the world's and they’ve snatched up their whimsy spectrum: an ice cream Says science teacher > created makerspaces and self-study and the visiting team’s classroom sizes will not increase, most outstanding pre-collegiate science teacher Mark Wagner, soldering irons and mitre boxes truck with flip-down counter Mark Wagner, “Building a implemented Design Thinking report of commendations and and, excitingly, we can begin to educations. who originated the car project with gusto. and, compliments of a chip car like this is an exercise projects and interdisciplinary recommendations. offer new courses and electives more than a decade ago. The goal remains the transplanted from a birthday in creative problem courses. in the High School. And Lab Sincerely, Things now get rolling with Managing Lab’s long-planned same: to design and build card, its own miniaturized solving.” While navigating all of this growth has made a commitment to a foot-long car—basswood a unit on Newton’s laws of siren song. invest in important all-school change, there is a strong sense By the fall Lab’s work on the frame, electronic circuits, motion, with students testing programs and partnerships, that we are well positioned to Historic Campus will be nearly two batteries—that can move basics on inclined planes, and Over the past 18 months, we make the most of the many complete and will have full use Robin Appleby then move into electricity and have seen significant growth in forward and in reverse and opportunities before us. of all our spaces on the Historic flash its headlights. In older magnetism when it’s time to hands and minds, however, tinker under the hood. LabLife, published three Editor Carrie Golus, AB’91, AM’93 Photography University of Chicago Volume 9, Number 3 this challenge opens up new The older students also times a year, is written for Catherine Braendel, ’81 Ingrid Gonçalves, AB’08 Chris Kirzeder Laboratory Schools © 2016 by the University of the University of Chicago Heather Preston Robert Kusel 1362 E. 59th Street have more “ability to work Laboratory Schools’ Contributors Maureen Searcy Chicago, IL 60637 Chicago Laboratory Schools pedagogical possibilities. “The Amy Braverman Puma John Zich community of alumni, parents, Design Lab Notes Correspondents www.ucls.uchicago.edu Reproduction in whole or biggest impetus to move the independently compared to faculty, and staff. Laura Adamczyk part, without permission of Janice Clark Dozens of diligent alumni Please send comments or the publisher, is prohibited. project to eighth grade was to sixth grade,” says science Director Sean Carr, AB'90 agents updated contact information to Robin Appleby Jeanie Chung [email protected], take advantage of a couple teacher Michael Wong, Megan E. Doherty, AM'05, or call 773-702-0578. PhD'10

02 LabLife Spring 2016 LabLife Spring 2016 03 THE BOOKSHELF InIn thethe HallsHalls Recommended Second-gradexxx reading Nurse Mary Toledo-Trevino recommends Heroines startups of Mercy Street: The Real Nurses of the Civil War by Pamela D. Toler

Until the than 20,000 women worked Their work paved the Toler estimates Civil War, as nurses during the Civil way for the important role a woman War. Many joined through and respect people like me that more than working as a organized channels, others now have in a profession that 20,000 women nurse wasn’t followed family members, some is crucial to healthcare. By respectable— arrived at the battlefront on the end of the war, nursing worked as nursing wasn’t even considered their own. Without training, schools were opening across nurses during a real profession. But when these women learned on the the country and famous nurses the war broke out, women job: caring for the wounded, helped advance the role of the Civil War. responded to President assisting amputations, women: Clara Barton founded Lincoln’s plea for volunteers to providing a calming presence the American Red Cross; serve their country. to the dying, managing Dorothea Dix established the Today, registered nurses Pamela Toler tells the supplies, maintaining hygienic army nursing comprise one of the largest story of how nursing evolved workspaces, even writing corps; some segments of the US workforce. from a private, home-based letters home for patients. became Toler’s is an exciting story that activity to a skilled and These women worked at physicians; helps illustrate how nurses respected profession and how the battlefront, in military others arrived on the frontline of that evolution tied into the hospitals, on hospital transport campaigned healthcare worldwide and gave expanding rights and roles of ships, and in convalescent for women’s me a deeper appreciation for women in the United States. camps until well after the rights, better nursing’s history. Through their In 1859, just a before war ended. They risked death healthcare, battles, these Civil War nurses the war broke out, Florence and many did die from the and other allowed future nurses— Nightingale published Notes contagions that became reforms. myself included—to be able on Nursing, which helped the main causes of death to thrive. In January and February, other business insights: After each store day, students students in Lauryn Marinho’s could change their business or The students the public see nursing in throughout the war. All the > It’s better to work with a and Catherine Gillespie’s partner if things weren’t going a more respectable light. while, they fought for fair partner because running a conducted classes spent six weeks learning well or if they wanted to try Toler estimates that more treatment and respect. business is a lot of work. how to be entrepreneurs. something new. market surveys, The second-graders were > If someone works for you, you On the first open store day, given a lot of freedom to design have to pay them. Ms. Marinho’s students sold to signed rental a dream business. They could > Location is important. each other. The second day, agreements, FROM THE work independently or with they sold to their eighth-grade SYLLABI a partner. They could sell a > You can have an order form buddies. The third day, they sold made business product or a service that was in case you run out of what you to Ms. Gillespie’s class. On the The glass cases outside homemade, inexpensive, and are selling. final store day, they sold to their cards, and filmed not food (because of concerns parents at a celebration potluck. JAN YOURIST > It helps when customers see commercials. Rowley Library hold LESLIE SCOTT about allergies). your product being used by Each time, students had to a rotating series of The students conducted others. It makes them want decide which pricing strategy to use: sell a lot for a low price or market surveys, signed rental it, too. book displays curated Salem's Lot The Road The Grapes of Unbroken One Hundred City on Fire LAURA SALAS-DAMER agreements, made business a few for a higher price. “By the the Ms. Marinho Bank, but they Years of Solitude Garth Risk Hallberg Stephen King Cormac Wrath Lauren Hillebrand cards, and filmed commercials. > Sometimes you have to walk end, they figured out that 20 to by the librarians. had to pay a transaction fee Gabriel Garcia McCarthy John Steinbeck There was also an optional field around and sell door-to-door. 40 cents is a very good range,” Marquez of two cents. They also had to “Then and Now” trip to Target to study store says Ms. Marinho, although > It is hard to work with a pay rent—10 percent of their design, pricing, and advertising. one student did a roaring included photos business partner. You might profits—on their assigned Many of the second- trade selling intricate bracelets have disagreements and storefront in the classroom. and book selections graders chose to sell products: for $1.50. A competitor tried you have to share the profit Ms. Marinho broke the rules bracelets, bookmarks, portraits, captionselling bracelets caption caption for 40 cents, caption caption caption caption of faculty and staff with them. onthe final day, allowing a group origami, clay animal figurines. captioneven though caption each caption bracelet caption caption caption caption caption of students who loved baking from years ago and “Anything very small and cute > It is fun to have a popular and captiontook two caption hours tocaption make. caption “So caption caption caption caption

LUKE ZAVALA to sell cupcakes, brownies, did well,” says Ms. Marinho. successful business. captionthe students caption learned caption how caption caption caption caption caption and Rice Krispie treats. These today—a little literary Others tried selling services— captionmuch their caption time caption and effort caption is caption The students began the project proved so popular and were manicures, Chinese lessons, worth,” she said. Students also window of insight with $3 of their own money to caption caption caption caption priced so competitively that playing songs on the piano— learned that running a business The Once and Snow Crash Bleachers A Walk in the spend during four “open store” caption caption caption caption consumer protections quickly into each person. Future King Neal Stephenson John Grisham Woods with less success. Here, in costs money. If they ran out of

MARTY BILLINGSLEY, ’77 BILLINGSLEY, MARTY days, held every two weeks. caption caption caption caption had to be put in place. T. H. White Bill Bryson student’s own words, are some change, they could get it from

04 LabLife Spring 2016 LabLife Spring 2016 05 In the Halls Work in Words of world progress discovery Making the most of Earl Shapiro Hall’s Families share language and heritage new Makerspace through stories

This past fall Lab’s first grade “The first thing a lot of kids weren’t into traditional sit-down The idea for Lab’s response from the first graders? Adding 3D printers would be Each Friday before school include other translations of classes underwent an American did was just glue round objects class activities. “They didn’t want to stop,” the perfect extension, allowing since November, N/K and familiar English-language rite of passage: a trip to a farm. onto the side of boxes,” says Ms. Inspired by the short film MakerSpace— Ms. Luna gushes. “I would tell students to turn their drawings Animals. Hayrides. Pumpkins. Luna. “Our role as teachers was Caine’s Arcade, about a nine- Primary Schoolers and parents stories—Buenas Noches part of a national them it was lunchtime, and into physical objects. have gathered in Earl Shapiro Luna, or Goodnight Moon, At the farm, the children learned just to ask questions: ‘How are year-old who builds a game they would actually get mad The students learn to plan how pumpkin skins are cured you going to make that move?’ arcade, Ms. Landry tasked movement to at me. They asked to come on and problem solve through Hall’s Lim Family Library for was another—as well as to protect the flesh inside for ‘How do you think the pumpkins students with designing and their free time to work on their trial and error, and, says Ms. multilingual story time. works originally written in future use. Back at Earl Shapiro will stay in there?’” building games like ring toss encourage projects.” Landry, they gain “stick-to-it- The program is one of another language, such as Hall, the students encountered This is problem solving. This out of materials from the creativity, This spring the second iveness” (more technically, task the first projects of Lab’s the German Zauberwort: die another farm. Situated in the is a developmentally appropriate reusable room. It grew so big, innovation, and grade had their turn, adding a perseverance) and “how to deal Multilingual Parent Group, schönsten Gedichte für Kinder new third floor Makerspace, Makerspace. they hosted a potluck and wagon-building component to with frustration, to be OK with formed in June 2015. Noha aus vier Jahrhunderten, loosely teachers had set up a small The idea for Lab’s invited parents and families to collaboration—had their unit on the Oregon Trail. making mistakes and work past El-Sharkawy-Aref, a reading translated as Magical Words: pretend farm—complete with MakerSpace—part of a national come play the games. Building Looking ahead, projects might them.” red barn and pumpkin patch. movement to encourage projects became a regular part been bubbling since specialist who chairs the Four Centuries of the Prettiest require woodworking tools “It’s the direction the country group’s library subcommittee, Poems for Children. Many And so began a Makerspace creativity, innovation, and of choice time in Ms. Landry’s ESH opened. (thanks to a grant from the is moving in,” says Ms. Luna. Challenge: The students’ were collaboration—had been class, and ESH Tech Coordinator Parents’ Association) and newly “You have to be creative. That’s thought it would be of the books are available to transport small pumpkins bubbling since ESH opened. Louis Coronel contributed acquired 3D printers. what’s going to take these kids interesting—and fun—to for checkout from the Lim (mementos of their field trip) Ms. Landry and Principal Susan magnets, motors, and circuits hear children’s stories in other Family Library. materials—lots of materials— “You can do pretty much into the future—innovation and from the pumpkin patch to Devetski got further impetus and helping the students build a which came with the help of anything you want on a 3D problem solving. It’s up to us languages. Given the large To start each story time, the barn for curing. Hint: you from a May 2014 conference cable car. parent volunteer Mary Hayes, printer,” says Mr. Coronel. Yet, as educators to prepare them number of languages spoken children and parents learn couldn’t just carry them. they attended as part of their More work followed during who manages the reusables he cautions, “But you need to face the challenges of our by Lab families at home, there to say “hello” in the day’s With guidance from teachers professional development. “They professional development days center, and donations from to ask if it fits in meaningfully rapidly changing world.” was no shortage of parents language, and at the end Elizabeth Luna, Amy Landry, were talking about this idea at Lab, and as more teachers parents: empty containers, with the curriculum.” One good willing to come and read. the group learns a word or and Blair Wagonheim, and of kids making things in the got involved throughout the alligator clips, buzzers, and the use for the new technology using drinking straws, bottle classroom, and I could picture school year, a committee Ms. El-Sharkawy-Aref, song—they sang the Spanish aforementioned bottle caps and might be with an N/K unit caps, and other recyclable my own students,” says Ms. formed and spent the summer whose daughter is in children’s song “Los Pollitos” straws, to name a few examples. on architecture, he says, in materials, students set about Landry. “This was them.” She exploring how to introduce nursery school, read an after Spanish story time; after Last fall’s mini pumpkin which the students already use building wagons, conveyor thought it might be an especially maker activities to students Arabic translation of Eric The Very Hungry Caterpillar patch was the first test of this drawing software to design and belts, and other contraptions to useful strategy for kids who and integrate them into the larger, integrated approach. The draw their own buildings. Carle’s The Very Hungry they repeated the Arabic word accomplish the task. curriculum. Classes also needed Caterpillar. The selections for caterpillar: douda.

06 LabLife Spring 2016 LabLife Spring 2016 07 In the Halls Emeritus Retirements

Charles Branham, PhD’81 Gerold Hanck Kathy Piane Joan Vande Velde

sources to the class. Students Did you ever have your children Awarded a varsity need to have opportunities to “I’ll miss their or grandchildren in your classes? work in small groups, compete, energy, their There are multiple sections, so letter for college and even move around the the school purposely doesn’t sports decades classroom instead of being enthusiasm, their place them in your class. But my hidebound to a desk. sons both had my husband for a after she graduated, spontaneity.” music elective. Apparently that What do you think your students went OK. Ms. Vande Velde will remember about you? I require at least three strong Do all of the crickets make it? What do students remember shared it with her pieces of evidence in support That’s part of the learning you for? students asking, of any argument. Stay away curve. I emphasize at the When former students stop from contemporary analogies, beginning that because by, they often reminisce about “Who knows what because they’re too easy to crickets are insects, they “choice time.” It’s very brief, make. Andrew Jackson is not have a short lifespan. Also usually 20 minutes, but happens Physical education teacher Joan Title IX is?” U-High history teacher Charles like Richard Nixon or Ronald Science teacher Gerold Hanck Kathy Piane began her career daily. We have a nice collection Branham, PhD’81, taught has been at Lab for 27 years. some of the crickets, as they Vande Velde has taught at Lab Reagan. grow, go through molting, and as an assistant teacher in the of blocks and art materials since 1991. She has taught all African American history at I come from the generation He taught third and fourth nursery school in 1982. During for creating and constructing that right away. But it takes a sometimes they won’t survive. levels of physical education, from student to teach a teacher. Chicago State, Roosevelt, that wrote a PhD dissertation on grade from 1989 to 1999, then her 34 years at Lab she taught all sorts of wonderful group the University of Illinois, and became a third-grade science So it is a learning experience. kindergarten to high school. a typewriter. [Today’s students] I’ve been doing this for 16 kindergarten, first, and second projects. Being able to What do you think students will Northwestern University before teacher. “Science was my remember from your class? have access to information that years and had maybe one or grade, and now teaches a first incorporate that into first and joining Lab in 1991. first love and what I really love Where did you teach before? I did the Maypole dance for would have been unimaginable two kids who have really not and second grade looping class. second grade is something that when I was a student. But it’s teaching,” he says. “That’s the we’re very fortunate to be able to I started out in public school probably 20 years, as part of job I was meant to do.” wanted to do the crickets. They at the high school level, the Rites of May. I’m afraid I’m How did you get interested in too easy to just pick the first or had reservations about taking How did you end up at Lab? do at Lab. second cited source. teaching PE and coaching taking the dance to my grave. African American history? the crickets home, for example. I was in the business world gymnastics. Then I had three And recognize that you’re Any retirement plans? Nobody has stepped up to take My interest was always just a Do you remember your first I think the resistance came originally, in corporate kids and totally changed that over. God—you know how it turned I’ll probably substitute a day or search for a usable past. I grew day? from the parents. investments. It was fun and my focus—I became really Also Nancy King and I run up in the South in the 1960s out, whereas people who were I remember my first class and exciting, but I didn’t think I two a week. I don’t think I can interested in their development. Scooterville. We’ve got a double and was involved in the Civil actually living through it didn’t my first year. The kids were Plans for retirement? wanted to do it for the rest of stop cold turkey. So I got my master’s in early gym, so we open the doors and Rights movement. But there know how it was going to turn great. I remember feeling a Try to get better at two of my life. childhood education. set it up to look like a village. out. So approach history with a What will you miss the most? weren’t any courses on African bit lost. I came from Ancona my passions: tennis and My mother was a teacher. Were you a gymnast yourself? Then the kids scoot from one American history offered in degree of humility. School, which was much photography. I have children Everyone always told me I was The curiosity and cheerfulness of thing to the other. It’s a big deal. I emphasize writing, not just young students. Exploring new I graduated college in 1971, college. smaller. and grandchildren on both going to be a teacher too, so so I’m of the era when women Just one day a year—that’s about research. We started a student curriculum and technology—I When I got to graduate coasts, in New York City and I decided I wasn’t. Eventually couldn’t really do sports. I played all we can handle. history journal, Inflame, which love doing that. And bumping school at the University of What have your students in Seattle. I want to do some I realized that really was what basketball at the University of Retirement plans? Chicago, again, they didn’t publishes twice a year. I also taught you? international traveling as well. I wanted to do, so I pursued a into my grandchildren. Illinois, but we weren’t truly I’m so lucky to have three kids have any courses. The premier have had a student published in Patience. You have to be willing master’s degree with a reading a varsity team. We coached with four grandkids—soon to African American historian, the Concord Review, a national to change your pace and adapt What will you miss the most? certification. In education, things What will you miss the least? ourselves and got ourselves be five. So I’ll be able to spend John Hope Franklin, was there, student history journal, for the to what the kids can accept Definitely the kids. I’ll miss their are fresh every day and every I won’t miss getting up in the to our games. I was awarded more Nana-time with them. but he taught Southern history, last four years in a row. and learn. That’s not always an energy, their enthusiasm, their year. dark. I won’t miss that a bit. a varsity letter about 10 years I’m also a Fulbright teacher. particularly Reconstruction adult pace or an adult set of spontaneity. It’s certainly true ago. The university had a whole I went to Slovakia on a teacher history. So I learned African Will you do some writing of your priorities. that being with the young keeps You have a lot of family weekend for women athletes that exchange some 10 years ago. I American history by teaching own during retirement? you young. connections at Lab. culminated in a big dinner where lived in my exchange partner’s “I’ll probably we finally got our varsity letters. I African American history. I haven’t decided. I think I’ll What’s the project you’re most That’s right. My husband Dom teeny-tiny flat, not much bigger take a deep breath once I finish famous for? substitute a day or believe the oldest was 80. than a college dorm, and she What will you miss the least? was at Lab for 38 years in the I was teaching at Lab when I How was teaching at Lab grading. The cricket project. The came here. Fulbright sponsors When you teach, you want every music department. My younger received the invitation. I brought different from your college students design a habitat two a week. I don’t some trips that I’m hoping to lesson to go perfectly. When it son, Tom, is now the chair of my letter to school to show go on. teaching? suitable for a pair of crickets. doesn’t happen, it feels like a the PE department. My older think I can stop them. I started out by saying, I had been lecturing “Approach history Then they have to feed and missed opportunity. But that’s son, Marc, is a musician, and “Who knows what Title IX is?” How will you stay fit, now that for 20 years, but that’s take care of them for about five the nature of teaching. he co-directs Summer Lab cold turkey.” you won’t be teaching gym counterproductive at the with a degree of weeks. The kids really get into Onstage. My daughter-in-law, What have you learned from your every day? students? high school level. What you humility.” observing them and taking care Lisa Harrison, teaches here too. I have a very big dog who’s a want to do is involve students of them. How many ways there are large part of my life. I take him And I have grandchildren in the to look at the same thing. more actively. You want them on long walks at least twice a fifth and seventh grade. So we Sometimes I feel like it’s shame to develop specific areas of day. I do yoga and Pilates, and have a few Pianes at Lab. on me, that I should have seen believe it or not I’m a tap dancer. interest and bring in outside

08 LabLife Spring 2016 LabLife Spring 2016 09 In the Halls SPORTS Parenting SPRING HIGHLIGHTS 2016 If we do our jobs well, we put ourselves out of work

FENCING

Members of the 15-team Great Lakes High School Fencing Conference, U-High hosted its sixth annual fencing tournament in January. Winning individual honors were juniors Athena Chien, with a silver medal in foil at the Illinois State Championships, and Janine Liu, with a silver medal in saber at both the Illinois State Championships and the Great Lakes Conference Championships. Senior Nikita BOYS SWIMMING Dulin won medals in saber at both events. The Maroons continued to rewrite the school record SQUASH books again this year. The team set eight new records junior Eamon Keenan in the BOYS BASKETBALL Interest remained high in this this year (on top of the nine 200-free, 200-medley, and Parents Learn to Let Go So Their schooler who autonomy and space to fail second varsity season with records last year) and qualified 500-free. The three of them Winning the IHSA Regional Children Can Succeed, spoke bursts into is an important aspect of an 20 students participating and three individuals and a relay and senior Fabrice Guyot- Championship in front of to both failure and motivation the classroom environment that allows them using the new MetroSquash team to the IHSA State Sionnest beat their 400-free a packed Upper Kovler when she visited Lab in with to build competence and facility located near campus Swimming Championships. relay record from last year audience over Seton March as part of the Parents’ enthusiasm experience success. for home matches. The Senior Kelvin Xie set records with a 3:12.49. Coach Paul Academy 56–55 in overtime Association Speaker Series. and proclaims Explained Ms. Henry, “As Maroons finished in second in the 50-free, 100-free, and Gunty celebrated his 40th year on a last second basket by Before an audience of more she knows she parents, it is our job over time place in the first Annual than 100 parents, teachers, will be the to render ourselves out of a job, 100-breaststroke; senior Nigel coaching swimming, the past senior Caleb Hill was the U-High/MetroSquash 26 at the helm of the Maroons. highlight of the season. counselors, and members of best student to ensure our lists of priorities Invitational in February. Van Ha in the 100-back; and the Hyde Park community, because her parents have told for our kids become their own The Maroons won the Lisle Ms. Lahey drew from a wide her so—but she has no school lists, that they write their own DANCE TROUPE Thanksgiving Tournament, body of research peppered experience on which to draw. life stories, in their voice, and the ISL Championship Failure. It’s not usually thought with stories culled from The competent student is the that we don’t edit them into Under the guidance of (11–1), and IHSA 2A Regional of as a positive experience, her experiences as a middle one who has faced similar our view of perfection.” Physical Education faculty Championship reeling off a but one can hardly listen to school teacher to highlight experiences, gained exposure, The goal of the Parents’ Nicole Magliocco, the dance terrific 22–7 season record. a successful entrepreneur the importance of intrinsic overcome a few challenges, and Association Speaker Series is to troupe performed at a number Seniors Xavier Smith and or scientist without hearing motivation. Her talk outlined possibly even mastered some bring to Lab—and now that of contests and school Caleb Hill were named ISL All- about how failing—often the importance of instilling similar situations. That student Lab has the space in Gordon functions this year. Conference along with juniors and repeatedly—laid the in each child autonomy, can draw on that experience Parks Assembly Hall, to our Oliver Maciak and Jameel, who groundwork for success. competence, and connectivity. and channel it to successfully greater community—highly GIRLS BASKETBALL was also Illinois Basketball Infused with stories from her “She explained the subtle navigate like situations.” regarded experts who speak to Coaches Association (IBCA) experience as a middle school but important distinction Ms. Lahey talked about the art and science of raising The Maroons finished with an Honorable Mention All-State teacher and mom of two boys, between autonomy and a range of experiments and educating children. overall record of 8–16 and a Class 2A. Head coach Rob Ley Jessica Lahey, a contributing independence, and as well, that show how invaluable fine 5–2 record in the ISL, tied was named ISL Coach-of-the- writer for The Atlantic, writer between competence and intrinsic motivators are and >>SEE VIDEOS OF PAST EVENTS for second place. Sophomores Year and IBCA District Coach of “The Parent–Teacher confident,” says parent- that extrinsic motivators— AND FIND RESOURCES RELATED Roxanne Nesbitt and Tia of the Year Class 2A. The Conference” column at volunteer Christie Henry, grades, incentives, etc.—don’t TO THE PA SPEAKER SERIES Polite were named ISL All- New York Times, and author of who organizes the series. “The benefit children in the long ONLINE AT LABPARENTS.ORG. The Gift of Failure: How the Best Conference First and Second confidentchild is the nursery run. Giving children the Team, respectively.

10 LabLife Spring 2016 LabLife Spring 2016 11 In the Halls In the World New leaders to Motor skills A blast of the join Lab New Middle School bard robotics program born Director Robin Appleby appoints two new leaders from math and who will join the Lab community in July computer science

Stephanie Weber Nicole Neal High School Principal Director, Student Services PHOTO: MICHAEL BROSILOW

Ms. Weber is a seasoned leader “The committee was faculty and families to support Middle School mathematics In 2016, all of Chicago’s Theater. Act II: a crash course with significant independent impressed by Ms. Weber’s the growth and success of each on programming challenges says Mr. Schwartz. They also teachers Jessica Hanzlik and controlling the robot’s hope to prepare Lab’s first a stage. Throughout the in The Tempest, compliments of school experience in senior deep and broad experience, child. Prior to Shoesmith, Ms. Tom Luthy and computer leadership roles. Most recently, and her clear articulation of Neal spent nine years at Whitney movement and interaction with robotics team for local and year, to commemorate the the Theatre School of DePaul’s Jeremy Ms. Weber served as the the importance of working as a Young High School managing science teacher its environment.” national competitions. 400th anniversary of William magic- and puppet-filled Schwartz assistant head of school and community to develop a balanced admission and ensuring the knew nothing The robotics activity Shakespeare’s death, production of Prospero’s Storm. head of upper school at New yet ambitious educational vision successful transition into the about robotics, so when they emphasizes creativity through organizations across the city Back at Lab, students connected York City’s Hewitt School, where for U-High in the 21st century,” school of their freshman. She formed the Middle School design and construction, Integrating are sponsoring lectures, movie Shakespeare’s themes and she led the strategic planning says Ms. Appleby. “Her strong has also served as an English Robotics Program, they were problem-solving by testing screenings, dining events, and, wordplay to books they’d read, process that resulted in a new communication skills, ability teacher and a school counselor learning right along with the and revising the design, and computer of course, performances. Lab’s including The Wild Hunt by Jane vision for the institution. Before to listen, and sophisticated at Whitney Young and as a students. “We give them some critical thinking while coding fifth-graders got in on the act Yolen and Natalie Babbitt’s Tuck joining Hewitt, Ms. Weber served knowledge of the complex counselor at Proviso East. science, math, information, the tools, and and debugging programming in February with their own (in Everlasting. And with materials as director of upper school at the challenges in today’s educational Ms. Neal is an adjunct get out of their way,” says Westridge School in Pasadena, environment were noted by many professor at Loyola’s School of language. Ms. Hanzlik and engineering, teacher Diane Bloom’s words) shared by teacher Catherine CA; director of studies at Kent who participated in her two-day Education, and holds her MEd Mr. Luthy. emphasizes the important “three-day blast” of the Bard. Mannering, they dug deep Place School in Summit, NJ; and visit to campus. Ms. Weber’s from Loyola. She earned her The three-month program, of resilience: “We hope that the program First they traveled downtown into one of the most famous dean of students at Riverdale dedication to what she calls the certificate in school leadership which began with 24 students walk away with greater incorporates for a special Chicago Symphony passages in all of Shakespeare: Country School in New York. ‘joyful hard work’ of leadership from Concordia. students this winter, teaches confidence in their abilities to Orchestra performance of Felix the seven ages of man (and She has taught math and history in a rigorous school environment Says Director of Educational students to design, build, and tackle a long-term project that the LEGO Space Mendelssohn’s “Incidental Music woman) from As You Like It, at schools, including Spence makes her the ideal next Programs Scott Fech, who led program robots. Integrating requires skills they don’t yet to A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” which begins: “All the world’s School in New York City and principal of U-High.” the search process, “Ms. Neal’s computer science, math, and Challenge, which complete with guest actors a stage...” TASIS in Switzerland. Ms. Weber experience serving children and have.” engineering, the program In addition to exposing uses LEGO from Chicago Shakespeare has a deep understanding of Ms. Neal has two decades families from elementary through incorporates the LEGO independent school culture of experience in teaching, high school is an excellent match students to a field that is and \ demonstrated leadership counseling, and school for this position overseeing Lab’s Space Challenge, which uses fast becoming essential to a robotics kits and LEGO robotics kits and Correction Due to the manner in which National Merit awards are announced, Lab’s experience in strong schools administration, most recently learning and counseling services. technologically advanced world, assigns missions finalists for 2015 and 2016 were not among the list of honors included in previous issues undergoing change. She as the assistant principal at Ms. Neal’s energy, enthusiasm, assigns missions related to the teachers hope the robotics of this magazine. Only students who opt to take the SAT are eligible. Class of 2015: earned advanced degrees Beulah Shoesmith Elementary and student-centered philosophy Mars exploration. Following Rajan Aggarwal, Clara de Pablo, Adam Fine, Michael Glick, Jeffrey Jou, Clare Keenan, program will promote an related to Mars Kevin Li, Edward Litwin (and a corporate scholarship from National Merit Corporation from Wesleyan and Harvard’s in Hyde Park/Kenwood. There impressed members of the a “curriculum structure that “interdisciplinary treatment of exploration. and Advocate Medical Group to finalists from the Chicago area), Jackson Martin, Jane Graduate School of Education, she managed student services, search committee, parents, allows the groups to move self- topics in mathematics, science, Maunsell, Walker Melton, Luke Newell, Nathaniel Posner, Maddi Ross, Madeline Sachs, and holds a BA from Hamilton including social-emotional faculty, and administrators.” paced,” says Mr. Schwartz, the Alexander Schonbaum, David Yunis Class of 2016: Robert Bacon, William Bremer, Mic- College. learning, working closely with and computer programming,” aiah Buchheim-Jurisson, Joanna Cohen, Marcel Dupont, Fabrice Guyot-Sionnest, Nathan students engage “with hands- Isaacs, Julian Lark, Arun Sharma, Angela White

12 LabLife Spring 2016 LabLife Spring 2016 13 In the World Show and tell The stories that photographers tell Artifacts and stories teach Lab’s third graders Kindergarteners learn about documentary and artistic about immigration and family photography through the work of Vivian Maier

If you were leaving your This helped demonstrate extremely ill, a little sick, or After the simulated unique tradition, with a few brought in a book about Maier, a Lyon visited the classroom homeland to start a new life how immigration has changed well; without food or lucky to immigration, the class read parents visiting class. One nanny whose images of Chicago twice, bringing a Rolleicord and on the other side of the world, throughout history, says Ms. have meager portions; feeling Paul Fleischman’s The Matchbox student’s parents told the class street life were entirely unknown Rolleiflex camera. She explained what would you bring with Wortinger. “We talked about too ill to move or playing Diary, in which a girl finds her about the Korean New Year. until discovered posthumously. how the cameras worked and you? Which family traditions transportation and innovation. games and dancing. great-grandfather’s collection Each child chose one of Maier’s let the kindergarteners try them Another student’s parents photographs. They looked out. The students also looked would be important to preserve It used to be a long and To reflect on their experiences, of small objects that tell his taught the class how to play closely at the subjects’ facial at the work of Lyon’s father, in your new home? These were complicated process to go to the students wrote letters to story of emigrating from Italy. Squash, Crab, Fish, Tiger, a expressions, gestures, clothing, documentary photographer a few of the questions that another country. Now it can family members back home. “We learned how a memory Vietnamese game with dice. setting, season, and time of day. Danny Lyon, AB’63, who had Brandy Wortinger asked her be as simple as buying a plane “We talked a lot about how associated with an artifact “It was fun for the kids to Then the teachers helped the sometimes used a Rolleiflex. third-grade students during ticket.” you would feel,” Ms. Wortinger or family heirloom teaches learn about each other’s family When Elspeth Stowe-Grant students write a short narrative. This spring they planned for their unit on immigration this On board the ship, says. “You could feel excited us about someone’s personal histories and take pride in and Martha Jannotta took their One photo showed a dog in the children to shoot pictures past winter. chance affected the students’ to go to the new world but and family values,” says Ms. kindergarten class to see the a car; in the background was a with a Polaroid camera and sharing their own,” says Ms. exhibition of Gordon Parks’s As part of a simulation set experiences. A roll of the dice still miss home. The kids really Wortinger. Each student then Wortinger. “Learning about building with classical columns. create images using Sunprint in the 1890s, Ms. Wortinger’s determined that some students’ honed in on that.” shared an object important photographs in the new Gordon The kindergartener surmised paper. Later, as the unit how their families made their Parks Arts Hall, they told the that the dog was being driven continues and the weather gets students were each assigned a family members were unable The simulated journey to his or her family. One boy way to Chicago brought a lot students to look thoughtfully to an art museum, because he warmer, Ms. Stowe-Grant and profile of an immigrant and to say goodbye at the port and continued with an actual field brought in his grandmother’s of interesting conversations.” and ask, “What story is the enjoyed looking at art. Another Ms. Jannotta plan to introduce tasked to choose six items that some lost their belongings. trip to the Swedish American wedding ring, which his mom People immigrate differently photographer trying to tell?” photo showed two hippos in a the students to the photography they would bring on their “There were some kids who Museum in the Andersonville now wears; others brought in today than they did in the “The children were inspired small enclosure. The student of Ansel Adams and the nature international boat voyage. took it more seriously than neighborhood, where they a grandfather’s war photo, a past, and families move more by the subjects and the imagined the hippos knocking sculptures of Andy Goldsworthy. Popular objects were teddy others,” says Ms. Wortinger. pretended to emigrate string of pearls, a family bible. frequently throughout their dramatic settings in Parks’s down the door and making their The kids will build their own bears, family quilts, and food. “There were tears the first day.” from Sweden in 1870. The For the unit’s culmination, iconic images,” says Ms. way to the jungle, “where they nature sculptures outside and lives. “A big theme in third- Stowe-Grant. So she and Ms. Because the simulation was The students also learned children discussed reasons students created oral histories. grade social studies is change,” belong.” photograph them. Through set 125 years ago, the children what a transatlantic boat for immigrating, dressed in Each child interviewed a family Jannotta—who share a passion When parent Gabrielle photography, says Ms. Stowe- Ms. Wortinger says. “How has for photography—decided to Lyon, AB’94, AM’94, noticed Grant, “students have learned learned which electronics journey might have been like period clothing, did chores in a member, made a family tree, the past impacted the present? launch a photography unit. the photos and stories displayed about observation, language weren’t yet invented (and during the turn of the century. Swedish cottage, packed, used drew an ancestor map, wrote How will our actions impact Both teachers had seen the outside the classroom, she skills, story-telling, and even therefore couldn’t be brought By another roll of the dice, a passport to board a ship, and and recorded a family story, the future?” work of photographer Vivian offered to show the class what science.” along). the children might have been started their lives in America. and shared a family recipe or Maier at the Chicago History kind of camera Maier had used. Museum. Ms. Stowe-Grant

14 LabLife Spring 2016 LabLife Spring 2016 15 In the World Behind the Scenes Giant steps KEEPING THE FAITH Following one man’s walk around the world, Kiran Younus helps Muslim children fifth graders learn to engage connect with their identities

Garden,” committed to surprised—when one of her diversity, inclusivity, and a love children asked to bring a of learning. They envisioned traditional Pakistani dish to “a place where [the children] school for lunch. would feel comfortable and Nowadays, a school lunch that would also reflect our that looks different from their vision of how education classmates’ is among the least should be.” of the challenges Muslim As her children—now children face. An American Labbies in seventh, fifth, and Muslim identity can be second grades—got older, she fraught with misconceptions discovered a lot of those values and stereotypes. The parents at Lab. River Garden’s focus of River Garden students shifted from its Montessori sometimes discuss anti- program to its summer camp, Muslim rhetoric and issues at American Islamic College in at their monthly meetings, Lakeview, and the after-school especially when news stories earning to program, in Hyde Park at the create a media storm, Ms. integrate faith into “One of my Chicago Theological Seminary. Younus says, but in general an overall sense goals,” she With fellow Lab parent they leave detailed discussions of identity can be Noha El-Sharkawy-Aref’s with children to the individual tricky, so it helps to says, “is to help on the summer camp, families. have a support network. Lab help them build Ms. Younus runs both As River Garden’s student Nursery/Kindergarten teacher programs and has hired group matures, Ms. Younus and plans to learn about other countries, their neighborhood. Students Kiran Younus has been an this authentic local college and graduate considers how its teachers to conclude but because Mr. Salopek is on are required to comment on essential part of that support students, including several may best equip the students to his trip in foot, he moves slowly and has posts by at least two other network for many Muslim American from UChicago, to teach. A both deal with the unfortunate Tierra del spent the entire school year in students. children in the Chicago area Muslim identity number of her children’s Lab realities of extremist actions Fuego, at the Azerbaijian. The students have In the beginning, the for the past decade—by friends also participate, a point and to understand and tip of South learned about Azerbaijian and students focused mainly on running a special weekly where it’s not of commonality that helps to respond to potential anti- America, in other countries, but equally the mechanics of posting and after-school program and a two different build a more integrated sense Muslim sentiment. For now, 2020. important, they’ve learned responding, but by March, Ms. two-week summer camp for of their identity. River Garden’s aim is to Along how to interact and create an Mitzenmacher says, they had children of Muslim faith. worlds.” “One of my goals,” she cultivate confidence in the the way, he identity online. started to enjoy the interaction “We want to supply says, “is to help them build universal values and basic chronicles Every two weeks the with other classes around the children with tools to be this authentic American teachings of the faith, “helping online the people, places, and students write “footsteps,” world and to think about ideas articulate about who they Ms. Younus started the after- Muslim identity where it’s give them a voice,” she says, As soon as Stephanie are and their identity,” Ms. Mitzenmacher heard about events he encounters while or posts, based on a photo like, what do you want people school program for students not two different worlds.” “so that if someone says Younus says. who needed a place to learn As a child she regularly wore something inaccurate about the Out of Eden Walk at a walking. A companion website, or entry that Mr. Salopek has to know about you? How do The summer camp features Out of Eden Learn, helps posted. Each student’s first you respond to other peoples’ about their faith and build different clothing, spoke our beliefs, they understand professional development many typical camp activities: friendships. They study verses a different language, and that it is not consistent with program last summer, she students around the world footstep was to introduce work and comments in an field trips, horseback riding, follow Mr. Salopek’s trip. The themselves to the walking party authentic and meaningful way? and stories from the Qu’ran ate different food at home the religion as they have knew it would be perfect for her karate, the occasional cooking and talk about their meanings than she did at school. She learned it.” fifth-grade class. students are organized into and share what made them “It’s not as much about [Mr. lesson and community “walking parties,” which consist curious about Mr. Salopek’s Salopek],” she says, “as the and values like kindness and was delighted—and a little River Garden’s students The Out of Eden Walk, service project. But it also has honesty. come from different sponsored by National of several classes around the journey. The second footstep kids’ learning to engage with Arabic calligraphy and lessons world who begin following a involved drawing and telling other people.” The daughter of Pakistani backgrounds: from Geographic, is a project about Islam and the varied immigrants, Ms. Younus Sunni, Shia, and mixed- by Pulitzer Prize–winning section of Mr. Salopek’s walk at stories about a neighborhood cultures associated with the grew up in a small town faith families, and a journalist, former Chicago the same time. The students in map. The third invited students religion. Each year’s session southwest of Chicago, as part range of ethnicities and Tribune foreign correspondent, each walking party respond to to photograph and write >>FOLLOW THE OUT OF has a theme; for this year’s, of the only Muslim (and only socioeconomic groups. and National Geographic Mr. Salopek’s posts as well as about what they noticed while EDEN WALK IN REAL-TIME AT “Muslim Contributions: ethnic minority) family in the But, Ms. Younus says, Fellow Paul Salopek, retracing to each others’. walking around their own HTTP://OUTOFEDENWALK. Past and Present,” students community. In 2005, she and “We are proud of our humans’ migration from Ms. Mitzenmacher initially neighborhoods. A later post NATIONALGEOGRAPHIC.COM will learn about Muslim some Muslim friends started diversity and focus on Africa across the globe. He thought the project would be a asked students to interview inventors, scholars, and artists a Montessori preschool for our commonalities.” left Ethiopia on foot in 2013 good opportunity for students someone about the history of throughout history. their children, called “River

16 LabLife Spring 2016 LabLife Spring 2016 17

In January 1896, a young volunteers were spectacular, University of Chicago enthusiastic, and effective.” professor of philosophy All proceeds from opened a new elementary Connections 2016 will be A BIG school on 57th Street. In directed to student financial three rooms with a large aid to enable exceptional backyard, John Dewey students of limited financial and 16 students gathered means the opportunity to BIRTHDAY to revolutionize the way experience a Lab education. that teachers taught The next Connections young children. This year, will take place in 2018 as Director Robin Appleby (center) and Connections Co-chairs Lena Jessen, MBA’04, Chelsea Sam Valenzisi, MBA’05, Meggan Friedman, Mark Yee, Jennifer Connections, Lab’s gala this event moves to a bi- A BIG YEAR Smith, James Smith, Tai Duncan, ’00, David Solow, ’97, and Andrew Jessen, MBA’04 Keller, Ashley Keller, JD’07, MBA’07, and Brooke Hillman fundraiser, also served annual schedule. as the Schools’ 120th CONNECTIONS birthday party. “It was a great party that raised more than $1 FUNDRAISING million for financial aid,” says Interim Director of Alumni Relations BREAKS and Development Alice DuBose. “Our Connections RECORDS Valerie Tkachenko Weaver and Ulrike Lengyel

Leah Taylor, ’78, Jeanette Taylor, Oliver Cheryl Rudbeck, Board Chair David Taylor, and Joanna Taylor, ’80 Kistenbroker, and Cynthia Heusing

Triste Lieteau-Smith, Don Elligan, Tracey Lewis-Elligan, Joanna Pappas and Tiago Pappas, ’00 Michael C. Markovitz, AM’73, PhD’75 Kristin Finney-Cooke, MBA’98 and Ling Z. Markovitz

Amy Runjavac-Duda and Peter Duda Yolanda Tyler and Jason Tyler, ’89, David Davidovic and Erica Castle Jayesh Mehta and Seema Singhal The Dewey Lounge U-High Jazz Band with Jamie Brady MBA’99 Davidovic, ’85

18 LabLife Spring 2016 LabLife Spring 2016 19 Art Inspired ArtsFest, a spirit-filled U-High tradition, attracts alumni and parent “arts boosters” by Catherine Braendel, ’81

Students have permission to select a winning design and to use school wall space for a permanent, yearly ArtsFest mural. A design by senior Julia Hedges is the first installed in Gordon Parks Arts Hall.

20 LabLife Spring 2016 LabLife Spring 2016 21 below: Adjunct professor at Philadelphia right: An art studio in Gordon Parks ArtsFest t-shirts and transform canvas University’s College of Architecture Sophia Arts Hall turned fashion atelier: in this sneakers, tote bags, and more. Lee, ’04, taught students to pour concrete workshop, U-Highers used splatter to form a planter. techniques to make “chaotically colorful”

or decades, ArtsFest they successfully recruited alumni and in the students’ and parents’ faces was very has been a U-High other experts to lead workshops. Says senior cool. Also having students support and tradition, and as a Halima Mossi, ArtsFest president, “We compliment other students’ artwork was student-run experience take in the constructive criticism from each really nice. Maya and her father helped you wouldn’t expect year and try to figure out how to make the tremendously with the organization of the it to be any different: experiences more enjoyable for everyone— event, and the product was very inspiring.” a sometimes messy, students, administrators, faculty, and The days leading up to the event can sometimes eccentric, staff. ArtsFest is one of the major school be stressful for the student curators and always interesting, exuberant combination spirit events at Lab and that brings a lot of the many other student volunteers, says of creation, experimentation, celebration, pressure.” Mr. Wildeman. “It’s a tremendous amount and innovation. A couple of years ago, students added a of work and a learning experience to Brian Wildeman, who’s served as Friday-evening of celebration and student coordinate events, IT, communications. It ArtsFest advisor for two years and even performance called Art in The Dark. This has the flavor of putting on a big theatrical ran workshops in the late 90s when he was year, the committee created a new scav-style performance—people buzzing right before, student teaching at Lab, says, “It’s the only event called The Hunt and, with a little high energy. day in the High School where the students help, a special weeks-long student art show “ArtsFest is an opportunity for students get to completely decide what their day is held at the Steven Daiter Gallery, owned to see what it’s like to be a teacher: to plan all about. Everything’s different and it’s lots by the father of senior Maya Daiter. “We curriculum, materials, deliver lessons. And of fun.” were so lucky to have the opportunity to it can be hit or miss–It’s great way to create In recent years, driven by student install student work in a professional art empathy.” initiative, ArtsFest has been re-expanding gallery,” explains Halima. “We got so many (it was once called Arts Week.) This year, submissions . . . It was very special to go the student curators decided to build up to the gallery event and see what artwork the number of professionals involved and Lab students were producing. The pride

22 LabLife Spring 2016 LabLife Spring 2016 23 top: SAIC student, Ellen Ma, ’13, (center) invited U-Highers to hang out, listen to some rap, try out new spray painting techniques, and learn “weird art and pop culture facts.” bottom left: Amrita Singh, ’11, (seated, in yellow) taught stop motion animation workshops in which students created a short animation around the theme of daydreams and filmed using top: Armed with an enormous supply of bottom: “Gore galore.” Guest make-up colorful post-it notes, dry erase markers, and a large white board. found and other odd objects and materials, artists taught the basics of special effects bottom right: Jackie Robertson, ’11, and Anisha Sisodia, ’11, who parent and Redmoon Theater Teaching for stage and film and participants covered works as a graphic designer at Wilson Sporting Goods, taught Artist Tria Smith and Costume Designer themselves with realistic-looking battle students how to use Photoshop (instead of an app) to build a Anna Glowacki ran “Trash Couture” to wounds. GIF—a short video made up of a string of photos that loops. make costumes for a future pageant,

24 LabLife Spring 2016 LabLife Spring 2016 25 Ms. Duncan reels off a list of the books and libraries but also people in our important. We need to allow others to “incredible gifts” she received from Lab community. The people in our community share the Lab experience and financial “that benefit me every day—freedom to underestimate what they have to offer and aid helps do that.” Says Mr. Smith, “We speak my mind and follow my passions; that is part of the charm!” were uniquely positioned to help with critical thinking; being inquisitive; valuing fundraising, being in the financial services diversity of opinion and experience in Chelsea and James Smith world and being diverse in our own right. the people in both my personal and Like many parent volunteers, the catalyst We had the opportunity to get other professional spheres; how to not only for parents Chelsea and James Smith to people involved.” accept difference but embrace it; an volunteer their time at Lab was their three Connections also allowed them to be a Parent and Alumni Volunteers Share exceptional network I started cultivating in children. “We joke about how our kids part of the larger community and to bring my youth without even realizing it; lifelong don’t know how great they have it,” says people together. “Connections speaks to the friendships; examples set by phenomenal Mrs. Smith, “but they do!” In choosing power of the community,” says Mrs. Smith. a Commitment to Lab teachers, some of whom still teach—what a Lab, she explains, “It was clear that Lab was From the alumni she met, Mrs. Smith commitment to young people!” diverse and stressed critical thinking. It was learned, “The love never stops! I sometimes She describes the creativity and important to us that our children learned in felt like they still went [to Lab]. They freedom fostered by Maureen Ellis and the that kind of environment.” had such enthusiasm to tell the story and compassion and thoughtfulness Darlene they were truly excited that we sent our McCampbell showed in her comments on kids there.” assignments, always grading in purple pen ...CHAPERONING The Love David Solow, ’97 rather than red. “I learned much more from her notes and encouragement than any A FIELD TRIP, More than a decade ago, David Solow letter grade could indicate.” SERVING AS A joined Lab’s newly reconstituted Alumni “I encourage Lab grads to volunteer Association Executive Board to help and give back to Lab because of how CLASSROOM reenergize how Lab alumni engage with much the school has given us. It’s more the Schools and with each other. “I am Never Stops than a building with classrooms—it’s a PARENT, involved because I had a great experience at community. And we have a responsibility Lab. My best friends in the world—still— to do whatever we can to help students MOUNTING A are from Lab and I communicate with by Catherine Braendel, ’81 have an extraordinary experience.” GALLERY SHOW, them everyday.” Like many graduates, Mr. Solow Lena and Andy Jessen SPEAKING TO attributes much of who he is as an adult Lena and Andy met one another as grad to Lab’s “great academics, teachers, and a students at what was then referred to as the AN ECON OR dynamic environment that challenges you GSB (now Booth School of Business), got HUMANITIES in the best way.” And he feels that alumni married in the University’s Bond Chapel, can play an important part is helping Lab moved to Hyde Park, and have been CLASS, TOURING maintain its “unique character.” sending their three children to Lab since “Especially as teachers retire, alumni are their now fifth-grader entered in N3. To CHILDREN the connection to the best of the Lab that say they have “always felt connected to the we remember, to the essential character that University” is understandable. THROUGH A makes the school special. We are the ones Over the years, Ms. Jessen has SCIENCE LAB... who remember what Lab was like. And in volunteered in many capacities, serving order to help preserve that special character, as a room parent every year and in every it’s up to alumni to steward that past.” one of her children’s classes, giving tours to Says Mr. Smith, “We are certainly not This year, Connections included a prospective families, serving on the Lower unique in wanting a healthy environment special “Alumni Lounge” area where grads School Council and on the Development for our kids. We get up and go to work could find one another and marvel (in very year, scores of Lab shares much in common with any parent or Tai Duncan, ’00 Committee of the Board. “There has never every day to give our kids an education. horror?) at photos from Lab years gone parents and alumni volunteer graduate who gives time to Lab. That shared The quintessential Labbie experience might been a day that our kids did not want to One day you look up and have been a Lab by, including some wonderfully dated their time—chaperoning experience starts with a shared belief that just be called the Tai Duncan. She has been go to school,” she says. “If a place can parent for years. You are invested on so hairstyles and fashions. As co-chair, Mr. a field trip, serving as a Lab changes lives. a student (a “lifer”), an employee (girls’ foster that love for all those years—it’s many different levels. The desire to help Solow recognized that showing up is half classroom parent, mounting A Lab education creates a lifetime of varsity basketball coach for five years), an very special.” comes from a lot of angles. ” the battle. “When people show up it’s a gallery show, speaking to an curiosity. Lab teachers inspire young minds employee for a Labbie-owned business (John The Jessens appreciate all the Being a part of Connections resonated the great way for them to reconnect with econ or humanities class, touring children and value the contributions of every child, W. Rogers, Jr., ’76’s Ariel Investments), and opportunities that Lab, and its families, for the Smiths in part because of just how the school and the Lab experience. Their through a science lab or sharing research, no matter how young. Lab friendships last a volunteer. And, boy, has she volunteered present to a child—like meeting Jane much it reinforced their sense of the Lab memories of what makes Lab a special place mentoring a U-Higher during a Summer a lifetime. Here is a brief introduction to (reunion planning committee—twice, Goodall, working in a garden, or talking to community. First and foremost, the Smiths are quickly re-kindled,” he explains. link internship. one group of Connections co-chairs whose alumni association board secretary, hosting a Sutherland award-winner. valued the fact that Connections ties to “The more connections that we can This year, four Lab parents and two volunteerism reflects the best of our Lab May Project students at Ariel, and three Says Ms. Jessen, “Our kids are not the very diversity of Lab since proceeds go create between alumni and the School, the Lab alumni volunteered for the role of community. years on the UChicago Alumni Club of going to realize how special their school entirely to financial aid at Lab. easier our collective job is to get folks to Connections co-chair. It is a time-heavy Chicago as the only Lab grad without is until they are much, much older. They “We have built relationships, and participate, donate, and help our students.” commitment, but each of these volunteers another UChicago degree). have access to so many resources, not just communicating the [Lab] story is

26 LabLife Spring 2016 LabLife LabLife Spring Fall 20152016 0027 Voice of discomfort The Rev. Howard-John Wesley, ’90, drives social justice as a voice in the national dialogue on race

by Mary Abowd

28 LabLife Spring 2016 LabLife Spring 2016 29 modernity” not only for his activism tripled and the church budget has throughout history. It will house three of around the Martin case but for his support “WHEN WE SAY grown exponentially. At present, Rev. Rev. Wesley’s sermons, including “When of gay marriage and advocacy against ‘BLACK LIVES Wesley oversees a staff of 55 and a host the Verdict Hurts.” “To have domestic violence. This past February Rev. of ministries that serve the community’s this museum stand on the Mall in our Wesley was selected for the 2016 NAACP MATTER,’ WE needy. He has emphasized programming nation’s capital is a critical statement,” Rev. Chairman’s Image Award, an honor that tailored to youth, including the church’s Wesley says. “When we say ‘black lives recognizes the outstanding achievements of HAVE TO SHOW annual Historically Black Colleges and matter,’ we have to show how black lives people of color in the arts and those who HOW BLACK LIVES Universities festival, the only such college have shaped America.” Rev. Wesley hopes creatively promote social justice. fair of its kind, that this year attracted the museum will spark ongoing, urgent Rev. Wesley says his advocacy is integral to HAVE SHAPED 5,000 high school students from around conversations about race. his role as pastor. “It’s a natural outpouring the country. The Alfred Street community When he thinks of Trayvon Martin, he of not only the God of the bible I worship AMERICA.” gave away $2.1 million in college can’t help but think of his own two sons, but also the tradition of church I come scholarships. Howard-John II, 12, and Cooper Reece, from,” he explains. “The black church has Alfred Street is the only faith-based 9. “We live in a society where young always been a hub of social justice and teacher, Darlene McCampbell. “She taught organization to be a founding donor to white men are apprehended and arrested activism. I would not be doing my job if I me how to read and analyze, how to write the Smithsonian Museum’s National and taken to trial, but black men are did not follow in this tradition.” and be persuasive,” Rev. Wesley says. “A Museum of African American History shot in the street,” Rev. Wesley says. “As Rev. Wesley was born and raised in lot of what I do every Sunday with my and Culture, scheduled to open this year uncomfortable as that narrative is, it’s one Chicago’s South Shore neighborhood, the sermons is take texts and help people read on the National Mall in Washington, that people must be aware of. There must son of the late Alvin J. Welsey, a Baptist between the lines. People ask me, ‘How DC. The church donated $1 million be more voices like mine and others that minister, and Helene J. Wesley, who first did you see that?’ Ms. McCampbell helped to the museum, which will celebrate make us uncomfortable with these truths.” helped with Alvin’s shoe business and later me see what authors were implying.” the contributions of African Americans pursued Christian education. His parents Rev. Wesley didn’t pursue the ministry enrolled him at Lab beginning in nursery right away. He headed to Duke University fter 17-year-old on race. When violence has mingled school. “My father came out of the Deep as a biomedical and electrical engineering Trayvon Martin dangerously, often lethally, with black South with nothing,” he says, “but made major, graduating magna cum laude was killed in Florida lives, his prophetic response has won sure his children always had the best in 1994, with plans for medical school in 2012, the Rev. him numerous accolades. In 2013, Time education.” and a career as a doctor. An Engineering Howard-John Wesley, magazine hailed his sermon “When His call to preaching came in 1989 Research Center/National Science Fellow, ’90, took to the pulpit the Verdict Hurts”—delivered after during his senior year of high school. Rev. Wesley was involved in developing of the Alfred Street Baptist Church in Zimmerman was acquitted—as “the A friend had been in a near-tragic implantable defibrillators—small life- Alexandria, Virginia, to pay tribute to the best sermon about Trayvon that you will car accident and was in a coma at the saving devices inserted into the chest of African American teen. hear.” That same year he won the Root University of Chicago Medical Center. heart disease patients to keep the heart Grief in the church was palpable that 100: A Who’s Who of Black America Rev. Wesley visited her daily during his free beating if it were to stop. day. Martin had been shot in the chest by Award, which lauded him for “leading But parts of that experience pushed neighborhood-watch volunteer George his congregation to social justice and him away from the field. Prohibitively Zimmerman while walking home after expensive, the defibrillators “were not dark. For Alfred Street congregants it was promoted or used in poor communities,” yet another senseless death of a young IN 2013, TIME Rev. Wesley says. “I saw very clearly the black male, a life ended prematurely, and discrepancies in the health-care system— the pain of it stung. MAGAZINE HAILED the underside that is all about the bottom Rev. Wesley stood before them wearing dollar—and I saw people die because they a hoodie, in remembrance of Martin, HIS SERMON could not afford proper health care.” channeling the emotion that rippled “WHEN THE That reality troubled him, and again he through his 7,000-member congregation. felt a pull toward ministry. He abandoned “God, what do I do in a moment like VERDICT HURTS”— medicine to earn a master’s in divinity at this?” he asked mournfully. “What do I tell Boston University School of Theology, my sons?” DELIVERED AFTER periods. “I would walk over to the medical where as a Martin Luther King, Jr., He can’t stop asking those questions. ZIMMERMAN WAS center from Lab and pray with her,” he Scholar he concentrated in biblical studies National events since then—in Ferguson, recalls. “That experience made me see and African American religious history. Missouri; in Baltimore—won’t let him. ACQUITTED— that the Lord was using me for something He then pursued a doctorate from the “We’ve got to expose that there’s a problem more, that I had a call in my life.” Associated Chicago Theological School’s here,” Rev. Wesley says. “Black life has AS “THE BEST In the Baptist tradition, when someone Doctor of Ministry in Preaching Program, always been threatened in America, from SERMON ABOUT has a call, they give a sermon. That year, graduating from Northern Baptist the time it was legal under the shackles of Rev. Wesley gave his first one—at Hermon Theological Seminary in 2003. slavery to the present.” TRAYVON THAT Baptist Church in Lincoln Park, where his By 2008, Rev. Wesley was installed A biblical scholar and orator, Rev. father was pastor. He credits the success of as pastor at Alfred Street, a congregation Wesley has become one of the most YOU WILL HEAR.” that first foray into preaching—and the founded in 1803 and steeped in history. charismatic voices in the national dialogue career that came later—to his Lab English During his tenure, membership has

30 LabLife Spring 2016 LabLife Spring 2016 31 Clustered Learning A hands-on Summer Link experience inspires students to try grid computing at Lab

by Claire Zulkey

32 LabLife Spring 2016 LabLife Spring 2016 33 What they proposed was no small task. Mr. Wheadon has been realistic from how permissions work, how to use an At the Computation Institute, computer the start—he describes the boys’ plan “I’ve been administrative account, and just using the scientists use software called HTCondor, of clustering computers as “grandiose.” consistently machines.” which takes unused time on computers Not only were there technical challenges Another lesson the students are and makes them available to researchers. At involved with setting up the computers as impressed by learning through their independent study, grid computing’s highest levels, scientists a grid, he says, but there were also logistical perhaps unexpected in the stereotypically from across the world use the Open challenges. “There are always human Lab students’ solitary world of computer science, is Science Grid for large physics experiments inhibitions that have to be overcome: enthusiasm and teamwork. Working as a group, Mr. with the Large Hadron Collider in people who wouldn’t want to give the Wheadon says, “helps to keep your sanity. Switzerland. “In our setup, we have students administrative access to their work ethic,” says If something doesn’t work for you, then dedicated resources for this,” says Lincoln computers or wouldn’t want to deal with somebody else can try it. When it’s just Bryant, a Computation Institute researcher the possibility that it might mess up or Kyle Chard, a you, banging your head against the wall, who worked with the students. “What Ben slow down their systems.” it can get very frustrating.” The students, and the others are doing is trying to set Instead of getting a large group of the Computation he says, have expertise in different areas, that up at Lab.” schools’ computers to work in tandem, Institute fellow. knowledge they share with each other. Still, Mr. Wheadon approved the they’ve reduced the scope to the 26 in Mr. “One of them might have used the Unix project. This school year the students Wheadon’s lab. Still, he says, “I think they system more than the others, so s/he can have tackled the job a few hours each day had expected to be much farther at this teach the others how it works.” in his lab. “Our goal is to take as many point.” One problem involves the types The students will keep plugging away computers as we’re given permission,” says of computers the students are using— until the end of the school year, sometimes

uring the summer of didn’t want to stop working. Theodore 2015, five days a week, six Ando, Jonathan Lipman, Fritz Reece, U-High students interned Logan Young, and Ben proposed at the Computation a Computation Institute-inspired Institute, a joint venture of independent study to pursue over the the University of Chicago school year. “We all knew we wanted to and Argonne National Laboratory. do an independent study because we’d Through these Summer Link internships, exhausted all the classes in computer the students paired up with Computation science,” says Logan. “We formed this Institute researchers to work on projects group over our interest in [the subject]. ranging from analyzing Wikipedia data We all agreed that we wanted to do sets to conducting statistical analysis of something—we just didn’t know what.” biomedical contagions. The answer came from something Some of the Lab students worked they’d learned about during their on local projects, such as an urban data summer work: distributed computing. realization assignment that included Distributed computing is a form of grid counting the potholes on certain Chicago computing, a technique pioneered by blocks and correlating the area’s income Computation Institute director, Lab level. “We also did some basic data analysis parent, and UChicago Arthur Holly statistics to see which places are more Compton Distinguished Service Professor polluted and possible causes,” says senior of Computer Science Ian Foster. In Ben Glick, who worked with the group, grid computing, a series of computers, although not as part of Summer Link. sometimes in different locations, work Each project, says Kyle Chard, a together in a cluster to solve a problem that Computation Institute fellow who oversaw one computer alone couldn’t solve. some of the Lab students’ work, involved The Lab students saw an opportunity. addressing “a real scientific problem by “We have noticed how many idle Ben, “and set them up together to run in Macs whose operating system isn’t as well The project has proven valuable, says with the help of their mentors from the applying large-scale computation and big computers there are around the school, a cluster so that students and teachers can supported for HTCondor. Mr. Wheadon, in giving the students Computation Institute. “They periodically Mr. Wheadon is optimistic that on a pop up over here to catch up with data analytics,” an experience that left the especially in computer labs when computer submit large-scale jobs.” The clusters could problem-solving experience. In computer smaller scale the project will come together. everyone,” says Mr. Chard. “They’ve come students equipped with skills that can science classes are not in session,” the run data analysis on physics simulations, science, he says, it’s common to run into “We certainly will have something that in a couple times for advice.” The students transition between different sciences. students wrote in their proposal letter, for example. The students have discussed problems from permissions issues to will run here in the computer science labs.” bring energy when they visit, he says. “We He was impressed by the students’ which they pitched to computer science other possibilities with U-High math and firewalls. “These are the things you run At weekly meetings the students detail have an open door, and they’re always gusto. “I’ve been consistently impressed by teacher Daniel Wheadon. After conferring science teachers. into on a practical basis; you learn by their progress and plans, which gives Mr. welcome to come back.” Lab students’ enthusiasm and work ethic.” with programmers at the Computation By this spring the students were still trying stuff and finding out if it fails, doing Wheadon an opportunity to steer them in He jokes that some U-High students are Institute, the students felt confident they working to get the computers to operate searches and seeing if other people have the right direction. “We’re seeing the light more advanced than his grad students. could link Lab’s computers to take part in as a cluster. “It’s probably a little more done that problem—and if it’s not exactly at the end of the tunnel.” “They just jump headfirst into everything.” distributed computing to tackle large-scale challenging than we expected,” says Logan. the same solution, then you use that to So much so that after their summer computation. get insight.” The students are gaining internships ended, five U-High students “the nitty-gritty know-how,” he says, “of

34 LabLife Spring 2016 LabLife Spring 2016 35 Alumni in Action Lawyer makes good Back to math Serendipitous The right tenor Richard Salomon, ’71 Justine Henning, ’84 storyteller Karim Sulayman, ’94 Sarah Rose, ’92

“You make a living by what you creating her own teaching story of a 19th-century botanist A top prizewinner at get; you make a life by what materials 19 years ago, when, who snuck into China to steal the Kurt Weill Foundation’s the secrets of tea for England you give.” as a tutor, she was disappointed Lotte Lenya competition and and the East India Company in the available math textbooks. a fellowship recipient at Rice Aside from the museum, and break the Chinese tea he also volunteers for the “How can we expect kids to monopoly. It is the greatest theft University, Sulayman is most Visas for Life Foundation, go into these STEM careers if of trade secrets in history. proud of his latest effort, a NYU’s Of Many Institute, the they don't even know what they That book about a pirate- classical crossover album. Israel Policy Forum, Alliance are?” fighting Victorian plant-hunter Debuting at number five on for Justice, the American In addition to creating a and corporate espionage was the Classical Billboard Chart, Jewish World Service, Interfaith curriculum, she's amassing named the BBC’s book of the Sephardic Journey puts a Youth Corps, and the Auburn a list of professionals in as week—the Brit equivalent of baroque spin on traditional Theological Seminary. He also many science, technology, being an Oprah pick—and went Sephardic music. “No one else Lawyer and legal consultant lectures at his alma mater, Justine Henning, ’84, loved engineering, and mathematics Sarah Rose, ’92, may have on to become a bestseller. has done anything like this,” Richard Salomon, ’71, wants to Harvard Law School. learning math—until an off- careers as she can find to been the last person to predict Last winter, when he says. “It's the first album of looking for a new book idea, be remembered for being an “It helps that I only need hand comment when she was serve as role models, including she’d wind up an author and a its kind.” fellow Lab alumni Derek West, journalist. Ms. Rose was reading the “upstander”—not a bystander four or five hours of sleep at a High School senior dissuaded Oxford Dictionary of National but rather someone who is night,” jokes Mr. Salomon, the her from continuing her studies. '89, a bioengineer, and David “My teachers at Lab knew Scheiner, ’84 an internet Biography, where she found an an active, positive force for CEO and founder of Vantage “Someone, I don't I was a good writer, before I “People come to applications developer and did,” says Ms. Rose, who is a article about 39 women who change. Point Consultants, which remember who, told me college architect. columnist at the Wall Street parachuted into France during Mr. Salomon, who lost advises corporations on ways math was too abstract and World War II to train and arm Opera singer Karim Sulayman, a concert to be had nothing to do with the real Journal, and at Men’s Fitness, much of his family in the to optimize their expenditure and whose magazine features the resistance ahead of the ’94, was talent-scouted early. world,” she recalls. “Naively, I transported, to Holocaust, has worked to of legal dollars. appear in Outside Magazine, D-Day landings. Her next book, A “lifer” at Lab, music teacher have his family's history Mr. Salomon, who lives believed him.” “How can we Departures/Centurion, and A Most Ungentlemanly War: The Vanya Wang heard him singing feed their soul.” preserved and shared as a in New York with his wife, Yet later in her career, Men’s Journal. Women of Churchill’s Secret as a kindergartener and told his she was drawn back to math. expect kids to go Army, set to be published in parents there was something cofounder and member of Jacquie, watched Perry Mason “Lab was an intellectual It’s likely not the last time Two years ago, she founded 2018, will tell the story of the special about him. By seven he the executive committee and as a kid and was enamored Valhalla. If you were creative he tries something different. Math4Science, a non-profit that into these STEM and wanted to structure your first women in combat since had become a member of the board of directors for the with Clarence Darrow. He “Music is an ephemeral art; connects math to STEM fields own education, it was a great Boudicea led the Celts against Chicago Children's Choir, and Illinois Holocaust Museum & attributes his life in law to careers if they it's dangerous to get bogged and the working professionals place to be curious,” she says. Rome. “The story of war has about two years later he sang as Education Center. In addition his Lab May Project, when he always been told by men, down in what you've done,” he who use it in their jobs. “This is very good for reporters, a soloist. to helping to organize museum spent a month working for don't even know about men, and for men,” says. “You put it in the universe “Never again will students who are paid to be curious. “People come to a concert a law firm. The experience she says. “I’m hoping A Most and then it's gone. Don't get ask, ‘When will I ever use this?’” what they are?” All we have is a question and to be transported, to feed convinced him that lawyers Ungentlemanly War will be an stuck in where you've been.” says Ms. Henning. “Too often, a pen.” their soul,” says Mr. Sulayman, are not only creative problem- important contribution to the His upcoming season “You make a living by the time kids get to algebra That curiosity turned a whose tenor voice has now solvers but also can seek to do Seeking out role models literature of combat, where includes performances of it's not clear to them why they post-college backpacking echoed through Lincoln Center, right and correct injustices. from a variety of backgrounds, women’s voices are increasingly Handel's “Messiah” at New by what you get; should bother to learn math.” trip into a career path. After the Kennedy Center, Carnegie After college he spent a races, and genders will make it graduating from Harvard, she necessary.” York’s Metropolitan Museum Drawing on two decades Hall, the Guggenheim, and you make a life by year on a Watson Fellowship easier to inspire a diverse crop took a train from London, of Art, but more than that he of experience in education the Boston Lyric Opera. “It's of youngsters to pursue STEM across Siberia, to Hong Kong anticipates singing his first studying criminal justice and and tutoring, Ms. Henning much bigger than I am, as the what you give.” careers at the highest level. for six months of freedom and “Lab was an Orfeo by Monteverdi, “a pinnacle visiting prisons in Scandinavia, is developing a K–12 math individual.” “The best thing is to travel. Reaching the bottom of role for a tenor of my voice- where he found alternatives curriculum that is now used Mr. Sulayman, who has go into a classroom and her bank account, however, intellectual Valhalla.” type,” says Mr. Sulayman, who events, he spent six years to incarceration and shorter in three New York City public sung in 12 languages, credits see kids who grew up in the prompted her to try journalism: notes that while it's one of the amassing one of the largest prison terms than in the United schools, each with a high Lab's language teachers with a projects and are stressed by with the British handover of first operas ever written, it has collection of papers about the States. Those experiences percentage of low-income Hong Kong approaching, “My career path has strong foundation of language life at home engaged, largely stood the test of time. Japanese diplomat who saved raised his compassion families. With her sights set she saw an opportunity for a benefitted from not knowing study. “I always think of Mr. because they see someone “As long as I'm continuing his father's life. Contrary to his for those from the “more on seeing the curriculum in willing and capable wordsmith what I was going to do [Randall] Fowler when I sing inspiring who looks just like to move people, as long as government's orders, Chiune hardscrabble side of life.” schools across the country, her and landed her first job as an beforehand. There’s been a lot in French," says Mr. Sulayman, them,” Ms. Henning says. I'm taking them to a place Sugihara issued transit visas “The wheels of justice road to Math4Science began assistant to the Boston Globe of serendipity,” says Ms. Rose. who describes himself as a “That means we've already emotionally that they don't let to more than 2,000 people, often move more slowly than with Lab's Ms. Kobrin and Ms. Asia Bureau. But her teachers saw “text-driven” singer. “It's not succeeded. I deeply believe in themselves go to very often providing safe passage out of I'd like and take considerable McDonald, who both taught her It was one of many “small some of it coming. At her just about the beautiful sound the capabilities of each of these and I'm respecting the integrity Lithuania to Japan. time,” he says he learned early to love math. decisions that cascaded into a 15th reunion, Ms. Rose told you make. When you're singing students. No matter where of the music as well, then I'm “This man dared to do what in his practice. His nonprofit “Often math textbooks major life direction,” she says, her English teacher Darlene words, they matter. It's always they're from, I want them to see doing my job.” was right, even though he work is a way to try to make do a poor job teaching math. including her first book. For All McCampbell, “I’m a writer!” about expressing the entirety their potential and realize it.” the Tea in China: How England knew it would ruin his career,” those wheels move a bit faster. They're either too conceptual or To which Ms. McCampell of what you're singing, which too focused on rote learning,” Stole the World’s Favorite Drink responded, “You always were!” says Mr. Salomon, who invokes and Changed History, is the includes the text.” a quote his son taught him: says Ms. Henning, who began

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