Annie Leonard, HS Assistant Principal and instructor of the Teaching Apprenticeship Program writes, "High school seniors in the Teaching Apprenticeship Program finished up their semester-long experience studying the theory and practice of elementary education by teaching a lesson in a lower school classroom. The Grade 12 students spent the fall apprenticed to a mentor teacher from the lower school faculty, and the older students became familiar and welcome helpers to their younger charges in the classroom. During their time teaching the lower schoolers—whether it was chicken-wire weaving or make-your-own jigsaw in K1, story re-telling in Grade 1, or writer's workshop in Grade 4—the apprentices stepped to the front of the room and became lead educators; a fitting capstone to the semester's learning."
