Alice ’23Workshop student
Project
The Workshop
The Workshop is an immersive, interdisciplinary program for spring-term seniors.
Project
9th-Grade Transitions Committee
The 9th-grade transitions committee was formed to create a set of competencies across Andover's 9th-grade curriculum.
Project
the ethi{CS} project
The ethi{CS} project helps computer science and other technical educators incorporate ethical thinking meaningfully into their coding and other classroom projects.
Project
Feedback First
Feedback First uses student and teacher feedback on math problems to assess student work against a class rubric and allows students to retake problems on tests.
Project
Residential Curriculum for the All-Gender Dorm
The goal of this project is to develop a residential curriculum for the All-Gender Dorm so that residents have the comfort and capacity to identify, discuss, and act on intersectional dynamics.
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
