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As part of our most recent professional development day, faculty and staff were then joined by Emmy award winner Mark Scharenbroich, who has visited more than 3,500 schools in his career. 
He stressed the importance of people feeling connected in a caring community where everyone is valued, and where everyone is acknowledged, honored, and connected. Teachers should "Make a deposit in student's memory bank, large or small."
 
Faculty and staff also had the opportunity to hear from fellow colleagues Micheline McManus and Kate Hendrix regarding the trips they were able to take as part of our O'Reilly Travel Grant program.

Micheline, who teaches upper school English, traveled to Paris where she studied five authors who lived in and wrote about Paris from Richard Wright to Jean Paul Sartre. While studying Sartre, Micheline stayed in the hotel where he lived, visited the cafe where he would do his writing, and went to his grave. She is excited to introduce some of the new texts she studied into her curriculum.

Kate, who is the middle and upper school head librarian, traveled to Dublin, Belfast, and Edinburgh where she attended the International Librarians Conference. There, she was able to share what we are doing at school with librarians across the world. "We're doing a great job here at Friends," Kate said. "Talking at round table discussions, people were taking notes and really interested in the programs I was describing." Kate was also able to participate in some sight-seeing activities including hiking, where she connected with a stranger and learned, "The power of telling our stories to another person is part of our humanity. Being on the receiving end of that is a gift."
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