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Posted: Jul 29, 2016 15:41

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Academy At Sisters
Bend, OR


Academy at Sisters Congratulates Our Teacher, Mona Mensing



Contact:
Chesley Strowd
Admissions Director
541-389-2748
cstrowd@academyatsisters.org
www.academyatsisters.org

The Academy at Sisters is proud to announce that Mona Mensing, M.Ed., recently returned from completing an intense, six-day immersion in American History at the Colonial Williamsburg Teacher Institute in order to enhance the experience of our students' classroom education.

Mona hails from New York and has taught 8th - 12th grade at The Academy for three years as an enthusiastic teacher. She was nominated for the Excellence in Service Award for Academics this year during the NW NATSAP Conference. Mona earned her B.A. in Film, Photography & Drama with a Minor in Writing from Ithaca College as Summa Cum Laude. She earned her Masters in Education from George Fox University as Summa Cum Laude and is currently working toward currently working on obtaining a MA in History. She is endorsed as a Reading Specialist and is a member of the National English, Social Studies, and Gilder Lehrman American History Teacher Associations. Some of her Continuing Education includes New School for Social Research, NY, Parsons School of Design, NY, Arizona State University, Oregon certification in Language Arts and Drama. She was invited to attend a Women in History conference in NY in order to teach this class for our students.

The Teacher Institute was created to encourage history education and make it engaging for students. Now in its 27th year, the Teacher Institute helps prepare teachers to help students meet national and state history standards through hands-on immersion experiences in colonial history.

The Colonial Williamsburg Teacher Institute provides participants with interactive teaching techniques and skills to become mentor teachers who can assist their peers and other educators to develop active learning classrooms and make history exciting for their students. Participants engage in an interdisciplinary approach to teaching social studies with American history as the focus. Teachers have the opportunity to exchange ideas with historians, meet character interpreters and become part of the story in The Revolutionary City. Throughout each day, teachers work collaboratively with Colonial Williamsburg staff and Master Teachers to examine interactive teaching techniques and develop instructional materials that improve instruction, raise literacy levels, enhance thinking skills, and bring history to life in the classroom. Participating teachers agree to conduct in-service training sessions following their attendance at Teacher Institute in order to share their experience with other teachers. Teachers also are required to develop lesson plans that to implement in the classroom.

Colonial Williamsburg builds on a nearly 60-year educational outreach tradition by exploring new technologies, expanding successful initiatives and offering new ventures to fulfill its educational mission. Today, more than 8,500 teachers from all 50 states and three foreign countries have participated since the inception of the Teacher Institute.
To learn more about Teacher Institute visit www.history.org/history/teaching/tchsti.cfm.

If you would like to know more about our academic model at Academy at Sisters, please contact Rick Buening (rbuening@jbarj.org).

If you would like to schedule a tour, please contact Chesley Strowd (cstrowd@academyatsisters.org) or 541-389-2748.

The Academy at Sisters is a licensed Therapeutic Boarding School for adolescent girls offering a safe, nurturing environment to assist young women in leading healthy lives through self-exploration, increased self-awareness and building relationships based on integrity and mutual respect.



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