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School Highlights
Press Release
District News
Teachers As Scholars: Franklin School Teachers Attend Princeton Seminars
By: Ann McCall
Public
Information Coordinator
Franklin
Township Board of Education
732-873-2400
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The teachers in Franklin Township are dedicated to continuing education and expanding their minds. Three teachers from Franklin Township are doing exactly that, by attending seminars at Princeton University, in the Teachers as Scholars Program.
Social Studies teachers, Steven Affros and Julie Tovay-Ryder from Franklin High School, and 6th Grade teacher, Ernest Batha from Franklin Park School, are going back to the classroom. These three teachers will be taking place in separate workshops at Princeton University during the coming months.
Mr. Steven Affros will be attending the seminar titled “Technology in American Life”, a focus on the relationship between technology and democracy in history. Ms. Tovey-Ryder will attend “The United States Constitution and International Human Rights”. In part, this seminar will examine U.S reaction to the U.N human rights covenants and to more recent human rights initiatives. Mr. Ernest Batha will participate in “The Big Bang and The Expanding Universe” which will take a look at the scientific fact that the universe is expanding, and the confidence the astronomers have that the Big Bang model is correct.
Henry Bolter, of Brookline Public Schools, founded Teachers As Scholars in 1996. Henry believed that teachers are passionate about ideas and learning and he wanted them to have the opportunity to discuss and reflect on issues with colleagues and reconnect with the reason why many became teachers. Teachers come to the seminars fresh, alert and eager to participate.
Congratulations to the teachers that are participating in this years Teachers As Scholars workshops, and to all Franklin Township Educators who keep the best interests of our students in their minds every day.