| Each spring the regular Middle School routine is dropped and all of the teaching and learning is accomplished through an interdisciplinary approach, focusing on a single broad theme. With special workshops, field trips and speakers, students experience an opportunity of exploring a topic in depth, using all of the techniques and skills already learned in regular classes. This year the theme is Leadership, with a particular emphasis on the story of women and their long and ongoing journey to acquire parity.
The MIddle School will be traveling to Seneca Falls, N.Y. to visit the Women’s Rights National Historic Park and the National Women’s Hall of Fame and will welcome a number of guest speakers.
Thursday, March 22 – Hon. Debra Young, Rensselaer County Court Judge
Monday, March 26 – Ashley Miller – Channel 13 sports anchor
Tuesday, March 27 – Dr. Gretchel Hathaway. – Dean of diversity and inclusion, Union College
Wednesday, March 28. – Leanne Robinson-Maine – Writer and Producer
Thursday, March 29 – Nancy Payne. – Story Teller
There are many excellent photo opportunities throughout the Integrated Project!
Debra Young, the projects first guest speaker (pictured below), is a graduate of the Doane Stuart Class of 1986. In 2012, Debra Young became the first woman to take the bench in the Rensselaer County Court – ever.
Debra was a partner with the Albany Law Firm Thuillez, Ford, Gold, Butler and Young. She has joined the firm after completing a clerkship with the Appellate Division of the NYS Supreme Court in 1997. Her focus had been medical malpractice defense and professional misconduct. Ms. Young has also served as a councilperson in the Town of Schodack having been elected for two four-year terms.
Ms. Young received her undergraduate degree from Loyola University in 1990 and her J.D. from Albany Law School in 1996. |
