Music Teacher Travels to Oxford for Summer Conducting Institute
This past summer, upper school music teacher Susan Nace attended the residential Choral Conducting Institute at St. Stephen’s College of Oxford University through the…
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Teacher Institute Attracts Educators Eager to Learn New Skills
About 100 teachers attended the annual Harker Teacher Institute on June 6. The event offered workshops for educators looking to gain new pedagogical skills to bring to their…
Flow and Gaming in Education – Special to Harker News
This article first appeared on the Web log for the American Association of School Librarians. It is reprinted here by the kind permission of…
Math Chair Receives Inspirational Teacher Award from MIT
Late last month, Bradley Stoll, mathematics department chair, was named the recipient of an Inspirational Teacher Award from MIT. Alumna Lorraine Wong ’13 nominated Stoll…
Harker Eggheads Make Valiant Effort at Annual Junior League Trivia Charity Event
In early November, four teachers came together to form the Harker Eggheads, our entry in the sixth annual Silicon Valley Trivia Challenge, hosted by…
Faculty Utilize Summer Tech Grant Program to Enhance Instruction
This story originally appeared in the fall 2013 Harker Quarterly. For more than a decade, Harker’s summer tech grant program has enabled Harker teachers to find…
Milestones: Faculty Contribute Expertise, are Honored and Grow in Their Field
This story originally appeared in the fall 2013 Harker Quarterly. Upper school registrar Derek Kameda was invited to present at the Advanced Placement Summer Institute for…
Environmental Responsibility has Green Committee Looking To the Future
This story originally appeared in the fall 2013 Harker Quarterly. Harker’s ongoing commitment to improving its environmental standards has led to the formation of the Green…
Middle School Math Teacher Participates in Mathematics Olympiad in Turkey
In late June, middle school math teacher Vandana Kadam traveled to Turkey to participate in the Junior Balkan Mathematical Olympiad (JBMO). It was the…
100 Percent Participation for Harker Faculty in Annual Giving Campaign
This article was originally published in the summer 2013 Harker Quarterly. Read the complete issue at http://bit.ly/10W17nX. The advancement department proudly reported that Harker faculty…