Faculty members at BCD cultivate confidence, excitement, and skills in students so that they can become creative learners and critical thinkers. Our distinctive program and commitment to excellence engages and supports individuals who are passionate about teaching. These teachers encourage originality, model leadership, and impact each student in meaningful ways that extend well beyond the classroom.
Working collaboratively across divisions and disciplines, BCD faculty members are constantly looking for ways to improve the learning experience for their students and the teaching experience for themselves.
As we look back on the wonderful 2012/2013 school year and look ahead to the year to come, we are highlighting the work of faculty members who have made remarkable contributions to the school.
BCD’s amazing veteran faculty
As teachers, advisors, coaches, and mentors, faculty members get to know BCD students as whole people. Having just completed her 21st year of teaching at BCD, Sue Benner taught upper school science and math classes this past year in addition to being the Athletics Director. When you walk into Mrs. Benner’s classroom, you never know what you will find. There might be a larger than life model of a cell being assembled by the class, a dissection being performed, test tubes bubbling, or research preparation for the trip to the Florida Everglades. One thing is for sure – the students will be happy and engaged in the topic at hand.
Jeff Uhas’ classes are fast-paced and highly relevant to his students’ lives. Mr. Uhas is a committed middle school teacher who, along with Sarah Pitcher-Hoffman, unpacked literary concepts with 4th graders, debated as the British Houses of Parliament over the US Declaration of Independence, and facilitated the middle school/upper school presidential election. After school, Mr. Uhas headed to the fields to coach varsity boys soccer. Whether on the field or in the classroom, he is always meeting his students where they are in the moment and moving them forward.
In Gill Romano’s 18 years of teaching at BCD, she has seen it all from the third grade “corner office” or the “penthouse suite” of Lower School. Third Grade not only marks the final year of Lower School, it is also the year when early academic skills are consolidated and most students move from learning to read to reading to learn. Her students choose a figure of interest from history, research that person’s life story, write a biography report, gather visual aids, and then perform in front of classmates and parents in character. By the end of the school year, third graders are not only empowered and excited to learn, but also are sharing that knowledge with others and becoming teachers themselves.
Science class with Tim Gore is an adventure! There are rockets to launch, robots to build and program, birds to watch and track, and countless species to discover around campus. Mr. Gore’s own sense of wonder and excitement is evident and contagious. This is experiential learning at its best. This year, he took the 4th graders on an overnight trip to the Boston’s Museum of Science – the first in a series of overnight school trips that these students will make as they continue at BCD.
We’re blessed to have these and so many other incredible faculty members who are innovative and embrace collaborative projects. They are all greatly missed over the summer, but we look forward to the amazing 2013/2014 school year to come!
