The Tang Institute funds and supports Andover faculty fellowships. During this concentrated time, instructors explore and engage with central questions in education today.

Tang Fellows

Our work with Andover faculty is guided by the belief that teaching benefits from active collaboration, purposeful inquiry, innovation and experimentation, and thoughtful assessment.

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María Martínez

Instructor in Spanish

María Martínez

Instructor in Spanish

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Lionel Amanfu

Instructor in Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science

Lionel Amanfu

Instructor in Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science

Lionel Amanfu has worked in the math department at Phillips Academy since 2014. In 2022, he began his Tang Fellowship, helping to advance the Feedback First project.

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Heidi Wall

Instructor in Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science

Heidi Wall

Instructor in Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science

Heidi Wall began working at Phillips Academy in 2014, first as a instructor and then as the assistant department chair. In 2018, Wall became a Tang Fellow and launched her project, Promoting Mastery through Portfolio Assessment, which later became Andover's Feedback First approach to teaching math. She loves all puzzles—jigsaw, crossword, tangrams, and anything that involves piecing things together (like math!). The poke bowl is her favorite Paresky meal.

Projects

In the Workshop, I learned how to find more intrinsic motivation and how to explicitly ask for feedback.

Alice 23Workshop student

Collaborators

Partnership is a central part of the our work. Embedded into the fabric of the Institute through the foundational support of Jay Precourt 55, the Institute engages with fellow high schools, researchers in higher education, and educational nonprofits.

Experiments in education are a delicate balance of wandering, exploring, and organized chaos...

Frank 22The Workshop

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