TANG INSTITUTE AT ANDOVER | June 2021

Dear Friends of the Tang Institute,

Another school year is behind us. Thanks to the combined efforts of many, many community members, we were able to celebrate commencement in person and offer the Class of 2021 the opportunity to experience and enjoy the many end-of-year rituals that make senior spring at Andover so special. The year's end also affords us time to reflect back and look ahead at what's to come.

One highlight from the past year was our continued partnership with Harvard’s Opportunity Insights. Teaching and learning across the school were supported by the action research of our teacher-coaches, especially with respect to Hyflex teaching. Our second cohort of Workshop students made their way through our interdisciplinary pilot program, creating documentary films, undertaking archival research projects into the Abbot-Andover merger, and producing a slew of new and revised Wikipedia articles. We also worked closely with the Klingenstein Center at Teachers College; our partnership with three graduate students helped us lay the groundwork for a strategic plan that we will introduce to the community this fall, and our collaboration on reflective practice and professional learning will form the basis of a multi-year research initiative.

We’re also delighted to introduce our 2021-2022 Tang Institute fellows. The central Tang projects mentioned above will continue. So too will our support of the ethi{CS} project, which will again offer a summer conference to support STEM teachers as they seek to integrate questions of ethics and the humanities into their courses. We’re excited to collaborate closely with the Brace Center for Gender Studies to support writing and research on the history of all-gender housing and related efforts at Andover. We remain grateful for your support of our work, and we look forward to reconnecting with you in the fall.

Sincerely yours,

Andy Housiaux
Currie Family Director, Tang Institute

Meet our ’21–’22 Fellows!

We are excited to share our 2021-2022 fellows, a group of sixteen Andover faculty members who will work individually and collaboratively on five projects. We hope you take a moment to learn about their work and we look forward to sharing more updates on these fellows and projects in the coming year!

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Exploring Opportunity

While taking micro and macroeconomics taught by instructor in history and social science and Tang Institute fellow, Liz Monroe, Bianca '21 was able to explore social mobility and inequality in her home of New York City. Learn more about Bianca's experience using the Opportunity Atlas and how this teaching tool far exceeded her expectations.

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Partnership at the Tang Institute

Partnerships are central to the mission and vision of the Tang Institute. The ability to learn and share alongside thought partners on and off campus will help guide the work of the Tang Institute in the coming years, and we are excited to share one recent example: our yearlong collaboration with the Klingenstein Center at Columbia University's Teachers College.

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Climate and the Curriculum

Following a yearlong focus on climate change and social justice on the PA campus, the Humanities Workshop Student Summit took place virtually in late May. The daylong event was an opportunity for students from Andover and several other greater-Boston area schools to share knowledge and take collective action on the global threat that is climate change.

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What We're Reading

Here are three resources we're excited to share with you:

Curious what the ethi{CS} project has been up to lately? We invite you to take a look at Code of Ethics, the project’s quarterly newsletter, to learn about the work that’s recently taken place and what’s ahead in the coming months (including details on this year’s ethi{CS} summer project!)
Brigitte Leschhorn, instructor in English at Phillips Academy, shares her thoughts on assessment, student mastery, and culturally sustained practices in Episode 5 of The Teacher Collaborative Podcast.
‘Tis the season for summer reading recommendations. See what 16 books made the list for NAIS.

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