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Burke teachers love our kids. Ask any of them and they’ll tell you that’s why they choose to contribute their talents at Burke. They enjoy the challenge of managing, and celebrating, a classroom full of complicated and fascinating young adults.
Collaboration
Teachers have the autonomy to design their own curriculum using the most effective practices and methodologies. Our teachers actively seek out time to collaborate with their colleagues; they learn from each other and co-create interdisciplinary units that test students’ ability to think critically.
Growth Tracks
Each year, Burke's faculty and staff all participate in professional growth tracks: year-long trainings and workshop series, facilitated by faculty members. In 2019-20, those tracks were Adolescent Development, Cultural Competency, Social Justice Pedagogy, and Teaching & Learning.
Professional Development
We make it easy for teachers to attend conferences and workshops that help them hone their skills and run a comprehensive in-service program every year. In 2020, Burke also partnered with Global Online Academy to provide professional development around creating courses and building strong relationships in a virtual space.
Each summer, Burke's Professional Development Committee awards our Combustion Engine Grants, which enable our faculty to enrich their teaching and curricula in innovative ways
To develop an ethics curriculum that will provide a firm foundation for students as they move through different aspects of Burke’s burgeoning social justice program; 12th graders can experience the outcomes of their work in the new Ethics & Literature elective in 2019-20.
Awarded to Steven Lee (Director of Equity and Inclusion) and Daniel Running (English)
To expand mastery learning in the 6th grade and World Languages; faculty engaged in Global Online Academy's Learning Design Summit this June in Alexandria, VA, learning and applying new ideas in education.
Awarded to Julia Andrews (Math), Fatou Coulibaly (French), Sean Felix (MS Dean of Community), David Panush (Director of Technology and Innovative Learning), Séverine Vogel (French), Kelly Williams (Science), Jessie Yaun (Spanish)
Co-ed, progressive, college prep school in Washington, DC featuring a challenging curriculum in an inclusive environment for grades 6-12.