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!
Mary Hall Surface is a playwright and director specializing in theater for families and multi-disciplinary collaborations. Her plays have been produced at professional theaters, museums and festivals throughout the U.S. and abroad, including the National Gallery of Art, the Folger Shakespeare Theatre, and 15 productions with the Kennedy Center’s Theater for Young Audiences and National Symphony Orchestra. She has been nominated for nine Helen Hayes Awards (receiving the 2002 award for Outstanding Director of a Musical), and has published two books for middle school drama students, 12 plays and three award-winning original cast albums of her musicals. Mary Hall is the Artistic Director of the INTERSECTIONS Festival at DC’s Atlas Performing Arts Center, where she has programmed over 500 multi-disciplinary performances and designed innovative audience-artist engagement. For over 20 years, Mary Hall has brought her enthusiasm for drama into classrooms and museums nationwide as a Kennedy Center Teaching Artist. At WISSIT 2015 she is leading three interactive courses.
