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Cultural Immersion: Dialogue, Storytelling, and Dance with the Nanticoke Nation
This event will begin with opening remarks by Dr. Bonnie Hall, a leader in the Nanticoke Nation. Ragghi Rain, a renowned Native American storyteller, will captivate the audience with traditional stories that highlight the rich cultural heritage and wisdom of Native American people.
Science and Art Come Together for the Win!
When Fellow Nancy Ventresca wrote her unit “The Unsinkable Horseshoe Crab” she aimed to educate her Christina School District students about this aquatic organism that plays an essential role in the Delaware coastal ecosystem.
DTI Comes Full Circle
Each spring, Delaware Teachers Institute Fellows arrive on campus to begin a twelve seminar journey. They gather together with a small group of teachers from our five partner districts to not only increase their content knowledge but ultimately write units that they will implement in their classroom and publish for other teachers to access.
Featured Fellows
Nancy Rudolph
Fellow
School: McKean High
District: Red Clay Consolidated School District
Reflection on the DTI experience:
“I am a 5-time Yale Fellow since 2007, and a 7-time DTI Fellow (since it began); also part of the Planning Committee to start DTI!
Teachers Institutes are the BEST Professional Development I have ever participated in. It is all of the best things about teaching ? collaborating with other teachers from different schools, states, grade levels, learning content, finding ways to help your own students, and ‘walking out’ with a product I can use in my classroom.
One highlight comes from my unit on Nanotechnology. My vocational students did research about a use of nanotechnology in their career areas and presented their findings to the class. The presentations were excellent and there was a lot of excitement and support during the presentations. They found similarities in the properties that made nanomaterials useful from one field to the next. Nanotechnology is an emerging field and my students are leaving high school with some background knowledge they can apply in college or to what they see or hear in the news.”