Tuần này Su được Pomfret School cử tham dự Hội nghị toàn quốc năm 2012 của NAIS (National Association of Independent School). Là thành viên nam duy nhất của đoàn nên Su được ở một phòng riêng của Hilton Americas - Houston trong suốt ba ngày hội nghị. Su khoái chí gọi ngay cho bố để khoe. Một trải nghiệm chắc chắn là bổ ích và thú vị. Chúc mừng Su!
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We are proud of our travel team of diversity advocates—a focused crew of ten students and administrators who left the campus before the sun was up on the morning of December 5 to head for this year’s NAIS People of Color Conference in Houston. Joining like-minded administrators from independent schools around the country are Dean of Students Dolph Clinton, Associate Director of Admissions Shanique Garcia, Director of Diversity and Community Relations Steven Davis, and Ginny Eaton from the Alumni and Diversity offices. Students chosen to attend on behalf of their Pomfret classmates are Ollie Adekanbi ’13, Peta-Gay Clayton ’14, An Hoang ’14, Alexa Luborsky ’14, Nataly Maloney ’13, and Katie McNaughton ’14.
The event, now in its twenty-fifth year, is a four-day program of guest speakers (including Helene Cooper White House Correspondent for the New York Times), idea-sharing, networking, and affinity group workshops designed to let participants share and compare experiences. Although the students will be attending their Student Diversity Leadership Conference in a different venue, the activities and goals are drawn from the same page. The three days of workshops, says the program, are intended not only to inform participants, “but also [to] challenge them to think.” Helpful insights and effective self-assessments seem to be the end goal: “to help participants understand their roles in advancing equity and justice around racial and ethnic identity.”
Pomfret’s attendance at the PoCC is funded every year in part by the VOICE annual basket fundraiser, in which gift baskets of books or food and other pleasant surprises are raffled. VOICE is the school student support group, stewarded by Ginny Eaton, who explains that it “caters to any student who feels that he or she needs some help adjusting to the Pomfret community—or would like to help in making the school a homier place.”
