St. Margaret’s Professional Community Shares Expertise at National Conferences

St. Margaret’s professional community frequently shares their expertise and experience with the greater educational community. Here are a few recent events where St. Margaret’s faculty presented.

 

St. Margaret’s Lower School Principal Jennifer Blount was part of a panel of independent school leaders presenting at the annual conference of the National Association of Independent Schools, which took place last week in Nashville, Tenn.

 

Mrs. Blount was joined by three other Orange County independent school leaders as well as Dr. Greg Koch and Christina Estanislao of the Center for Learning and Behavioral Solutions, an educational partner of St. Margaret’s. They conducted a session titled “Welcoming and Serving Neurodiversity and Diverse Learning in Your Independent School” which addressed neurodiversity and strategies for schools to support students’ academic and emotional needs.  

St. Margaret’s Early School teachers Hope Petrozzi and Erika Garcia presented at the ECSTEM conference in Santa Monica recently. The two shared their expertise in a session titled “Planting the Seed of Curiosity: Cultivating Wonder Through Life Sciences” which explored the value of hands-on gardening in fostering curiosity observation skills and STEM learning with young children.

 

The ECSTEM Conference is hosted by the Children’s Center at Caltech. More than 450 educators, policymakers, researchers and early-childhood practictioners were in attendance.