Building a Sustainable Program that gets Kids Outside with Andrew Turchon and Bethanne Goldman

12/17/19 • 31 min

Andrew Turchon is a social studies teacher at Revere High School where he teaches 9th grade U.S. history and an outdoor education elective. He is a National Board certified teacher, mentor, and Ph.D candidate at Umass Boston. His research foci is placed-based learning, outdoor education, and the benefits of time spent in the natural world. He co-advises the RHS Outdoors Club which was born from the importance of providing urban students with access to experiences outside. As a diverse group of students and teachers, we strive to honor diversity, inclusion, and equity as we build an outdoor community in Revere. Follow them on Instagram @revereoutdoors.

Bethanne Goldman is in her fifth year teaching math at Revere High School. This is her second year working with Andrew to co-run the Revere High School Outdoors Club through which they take students on monthly hikes and camping trips throughout New England. Bethanne completed the Appalachian Mountain Club’s Youth Opportunities Program, making her eligible to apply for grants to purchase clothing and materials for students in the RHS Outdoors Club.

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James Likis is a former math teacher at the Jeremiah E. Burke High School in Boston and a graduate of the Boston Teacher Residency. While in the classroom, James took on a variety of leadership roles, from leading the Burke's Math Team to facilitating cross-sector collaboration through multiple grants to participating in Stanford University's Hollyhock Fellowship, all with a focus on improving instruction to better serve students. All of these efforts led to James co-founding DIY ( “Do It Yourself”) Coaching, an alternative approach to traditional instructional coaching that develops teachers as coaches for themselves and one another through the use of classroom video. Learn more about DIY Coaching at diycoaching.org and connect with James on Twitter @jameslikis.

DIY coaching site: www.diycoaching.org The site DIY uses to host videos:

www.classforward.com

EdVestors Seed Fund:

https://www.edvestors.org/school-solutions-seed-fund

Hollyhock Fellowship:

cset.stanford.edu/pd/hollyhock

Boston Foundation EdTalk about DIY Coaching:

https://youtu.be/bcUZbUBSt5w

Twitter: @Edvestors, @BostonSchools, DIY Coaching
Hollyhock Fellowship
@jameslikis