Alice ’23Workshop student

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.

María Martínez
Instructor in Spanish

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.

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.

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
