Superintendent Adam Bunting sits down with Rebecca Gove, a longtime art educator who has taught at Hinesburg Community School for eight years. Rebecca is deeply involved in the broader arts education community, including serving as treasurer for the Vermont Arts Educators Association, and her work at HCS extends beyond the studio by serving as the school’s Innovation Coordinator. 

In this interview, Rebecca talks about how art is a way to communicate and build connection; what it looks like when a student switches from left to right brain thinking; how choice-based art has radically changed her and her “art-ner” Sara Elliott’s classroom dynamic; and the ways in which her work with Hinesburg Community School’s design team is helping flip the education model to more actively involve students in their learning. 

In this interview, Rebecca and Adam discuss "The Learning Pit," James Nottingham's explanation of developing a growth mindset explained in this great animated video.

In November, Superintendent Adam Bunting sat down with Becky Martell, Williston Central School’s Connecting Youth Mentor Coordinator.

Following a 34-year run as a middle school math teacher (she taught every grade but kindergarten), Becky took the reins of Williston’s mentor program in 2022, after longtime program coordinator Nancy Carlson retired. Becky now oversees nearly 60 Williston students and their community-member mentors in one of four programs across CVSD that together serve 160 students—the largest and longest-running in-school mentoring program in Vermont.
 
In this interview, Becky shares gratitude for the community’s remarkable level of caring and giving, speaks to how being the 9th of 10 children led her to work in education, and reflects on the importance of allowing all students to be seen for who they are.

Learn more about the mentoring program at the Connecting Youth website.

If you want to nominate a colleague for next month’s CVSD Spotlight interview, please email superintendent@cvsdvt.org.
 

In early October, Superintendent Adam Bunting sat down with Katie Fraser, a Charlotte Central School fourth-grade teacher who’s taught elementary and middle-schoolers across CVSD since 2013.

Colleagues consider Katie an incredibly kind and energetic educator, and Adam wanted to know more about where she finds joy in and outside of her classroom, how she works to engage all students and build a culture where we can have honest conversations, and what she thinks of candy corn (it’s October, after all).

In this interview, Katie talks about the colleagues who inspire her, what it looks like to make her classroom a brave and courageous space, and how she teaches her students to recognize that all people are good inside.

If you want to nominate a faculty or staff member for a CVSD Spotlight interview, please email superintendent@cvsdvt.org.