Applications for the 2026 Metzger Fellowships are now available! The deadline for applying is February 23.
The process is simple:
- Click below to download and fill out the Application.
- Click the second button to fill out a brief form and upload your completed Application.
Please note that this year’s workshop dates are July 27-31, from 9:30am-12:30pm – you must commit to participating on all five mornings to be considered for a Fellowship.
The Brookline Education Foundation’s Margaret Metzger Fellowship program is thrilled to announce that Brookline educator Dominique Herard will be taking over as the program’s facilitator beginning in 2026.
Dominique’s career exemplifies the values so powerfully embodied by Margaret Metzger’s work writing about education and coaching colleagues in written self-reflection. In addition to teaching at the Pierce School for the past 15 years (mostly first grade with one year teaching fifth grade), Dominique mentors colleagues, facilitating the Pierce Equity Action Team and co-coaching a PSB Mentored Professional Learning Group. She conducts and presents research on topics relating to writing and equity in education, most recently as a Fellow with Research For Action in Philadelphia and with a presentation at the National Conference for Teachers of English in 2025. She has facilitated opportunities for education professionals to reflect on their practice locally, nationally and internationally, and presented her work at conferences, contributed to academic books and published in journals focused on supporting educators’ professional and personal growth. The BEF is looking forward to continuing this vital, unique Fellowship program under Dominique’s able and thoughtful leadership.
Margaret Metzger was a teacher at BHS for over 40 years, and not only taught high school students but advised and mentored many teachers. She believed that writing about the craft of teaching was an important part of the process and experience of teaching.
If you have an interest in writing about teaching, we strongly encourage you to apply for a Metzger Fellowship. Please note that you must have been working in the Public Schools of Brookline for at least three years to be considered for this fellowship. Any student-facing PSB employee is eligible! Teachers, counselors, paraprofessionals, specialists, administrators… all are welcome to apply.
The Margaret Metzger Fellowship grants Brookline educators the opportunity to reflect on their life as educators and write an essay about those experiences. Dominique Herard, Pierce educator, experienced mentor, and published writer, will lead and support the six Metzger Fellows selected by the Metzger Committee. The group of Fellows work together and separately in a workshop format giving and receiving peer input. There is a wonderful culminating event in the Fall at which the essays are read by the authors.
The stipend for this project will be $1000 for each participant. Applicants should be employees of the Public Schools of Brookline who work in classrooms (including classroom teachers, paraprofessionals, specialists, administrators who also teach, etc.) and planning to return to PSBMA in the Fall. New and veteran teachers are encouraged to apply. Margaret Metzger believed strongly in encouraging all teachers, novice to expert, to reflect and share their work.
Congratulations and Thank You to the Metzger Encore Fellows and the outgoing Metzger Program Facilitator John Andrews! This special convening of returning Fellows, writing with the goal of further reflecting on their careers and publishing their pieces, was moving and impressive. The audience included 2nd and 3rd year educators in their mentoring program as well as community members, colleagues, families and friends. (l-r Tracy Bare, Alexa Cuff, Paul Epstein, Evan Mousseau, John Andrews, Wan Wang, Jon Weinberger, and program co-founder Barbara Kleeman).
CONGRATULATIONS!
To the 2025 Margaret Metzger Fellows!
Marissa Drossos, BHS special ed and ELA teacher
Sarah Hahesy, Runkle 3rd grade teacher
Kevin Mackenzie, Lawrence 6/7th grade social studies teacher
Erica O’Mahony, BHS Spanish teacher
Meredith Ritter, Baker art teacher
Kevin Wang, BHS ELA teacher
The 2025 Metzger Fellows shared their essays at the ‘Tales From The Classroom’ Event on October 9! Click here for video of the moving, wonderful event!
2024 Metzger Fellows
Congratulations to: Daniel Lipton, Lily Glickstein, Matt Picard, Matthew DeGrace, Katy McGraw, and Alexa Cuff!
They presented their essays at the 2024 Tales From The Classroom event supported by their coach, BHS English Department chair John Andrews (pictured, left) on October 10 at the Lincoln School. Click here for video of this inspiring event.
2023 Metzger Fellows
Congratulations to: Hannah Bjornson, Brendan McCarthy, Tim Hintz, Jeanette Sergeant, Peter Sedlak and Julia Mangan!
Last year’s Fellows read their essays on the craft of teaching at the Lincoln School on September 29, 2023. Please visit the BEF’s YouTube channel to view video of this inspiring event.