Monthly Archives: May 2024

Celebrating Teachers 2024

2024-08-05T14:03:53-04:00

The broad community of Brookline educators came together last Tuesday to be celebrated by the BEF! At this annual event, we are proud and delighted to recognize all of this year's grant, award, and fellowship winners. The highlight of the event is the awarding of the Ernest R. Caverly Award for Excellence in Teaching - given this year to Driscoll's Olivia Reyelt and BHS's Keira Flynn-Carson.  You can read all about the awards by clicking here, and read about all the grants organized by school by clicking here. Congratulations to all, and thank you for another year of excellence in public [...]

Celebrating Teachers 20242024-08-05T14:03:53-04:00

May Featured Grant: Erica O’Mahony

2024-08-05T14:03:06-04:00

This month, the BEF Board was thrilled to hear from BHS Spanish teacher Erica O'Mahony about her recent trip to Colombia. Erica's grant, entitled “Cartagena: Afro-Latino History and Culture in Colombia," took her to Cartagena over April vacation. She took many tours while there, having prepared for her trip with extensive research into the history of African enslaved people, freed slaves, and the communities they built in and around Cartagena during the nineteenth century, both in cooperation with white Creoles and Indians, and in isolation. She interviewed many local people, recorded examples of local Afro-Latino language, art, and dance, and returned [...]

May Featured Grant: Erica O’Mahony2024-08-05T14:03:06-04:00
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