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We look forward to learning with you at WISSIT in August!

We know a school can be only as good as its teachers. The best schools are those where teachers continuously improve their practice through collaboration and guided self-reflection.

Three questions guide our vision of WISSIT: What if we were to bring together motivated teachers from a wide variety of schools in order to engage in deep discussion about effective teaching and learning? What if we provided support when they returned to their schools, where they put into place what they have learned? What if these teachers were able to build a school-wide culture of reflection and collaboration with their colleagues?

At WISSIT, you’ll be joining educators from all over the Washington, DC, area, as well as researchers from Project Zero at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education.  We will engage in an intensive week-long exploration of two themes, Building a Culture of Thinking and Educating for Global Competence.

See you on Monday morning, August 3!

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Georgina Ardalan

J. O. Wilson Elementary School (DCPS)
Preschool Teacher
Washington, DC
Georgina Ardalan is an early childhood educator at J.O. Wilson Elementary School (DCPS). Georgina draws on inspiration from her first career in architecture to create a nurturing and collaborative environment within a thinking culture where teachers and children both question and listen. Her classroom has participated in the Children Are Citizens (CAC) initiative in three iterations. An article on a class project in CAC entitled "Spreading Happiness" was published in the National Association for the Education of Young Children’s journal Young Children. She has participated in WISSIT since the inaugural summer in 2014 and has presented at NAEYC, Project Zero Perspectives, National Network of Schools in Partnership, and Children Are Citizens conferences.