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A Note on Registration Fees:The Colloquium continues to be funded through a generous grant from the EE Ford Foundation, as well as participant fees and Santa Fe Prep’s operating budget. We have had to reevaluate our pricing structure this year in light of program expenses. This had led to an increase in registration fees. We are committed…
Joey Reich
After earning his bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Brandeis University, Joey Reich embarked on a career as a professional artist and glassblower. He studied glass art at Massachusetts College of Art and Design and Pilchuck Glass School, before following his future wife out to New Mexico in 2003. After building and operating a glass shop…
High Desert Euclid
Most math teachers get into teaching the subject for two reasons. The first is clearly the pay, but the second is because they love math. How often, though, does the average math teacher get to learn and explore their passion for the subject matter. Between grading tests and homework assignments, meeting students for extra help,…
About The Program
2025 EE Ford Summer Teachers’ Colloquium Everyone loves the summer. It is a time for rest and relaxation, and educators need that in order to replenish the emotional resources required for teaching well. However, as good as the summer feels, there is another powerful and wonderful feeling that follows: the feeling of starting a school…
Breshaun Joyner
Breshaun-Birene Joyner has a master’s in children’s literature and is currently pursuing a doctoral degree in Shakespeare pedagogy. Her passion for teaching is matched only by her desire to continually learn how to be a better educator. To that end, Breshaun is always creating curriculum rooted in her professional and personal passions such as Afrofuturism.…
Afrofuturism: Explorations into the Black Imaginary
Afrofuturism is a genre of literature, music, cinema, and art that intersects Black culture, history, and technology. Though coined in 1993, by cultural critic Mark Dery, this collection of creative expression has roots that reach back to the 19th century. Afrofuturism imagines worlds in which Black people use their creativity and ingenuity to craft their…
Rebecca Sam
Rebecca Sam has been teaching science to all ages for 25 years. After being trained in biology education, she decided to wander the rainforests of Madagascar in search of elusive insects as she achieved her doctorate in entomology, ecology, and evolutionary biology. She has a very patient family who willingly stops whenever she sees something…
Participating Schools
What schools have sent teachers to the EE Ford Summer Teachers’ Colloquium? The answer is many and varied. The Colloquium isn’t just a great place to learn new things. It isn’t just for recharging your batteries, it also is a great way to get and stay connected with professionals from school communities around the country.
Unraveling the Mysteries of Molecular Biology
What is gene therapy? How does CRISPR work? Are these techniques safe for humans? Come join us to dive into the world of molecular biology! Genetic engineering is no longer just for sci-fi novels and tv shows, it has become a part of everyday news and language. Whether it’s a child receiving gene therapy for…
Santa Fe Partners
A partial list of guest speakers and excursions from our courses. It is with great pleasure that we will partner with the vast quantity and quality of intellectual resources here in Santa Fe. Santa Fe is a center for mathematical and scientific inquiry as well as a hotbed of art and culture in a place…
Travel & Lodging
SCHEDULE The Colloquium will begin the evening of July 28, 2025, with a Welcome Reception. Courses will begin the morning of July 29. Each course meets from about 9am until about 4pm July 29-August 1. This schedule may vary slightly depending on field trips and the individual needs of each course. More detailed schedules for…
Callie Carew-Miller
Callie Carew-Miller recently moved to Northern New Mexico after years teaching English in Prague, Czechia; Sofia, Bulgaria; and Sheffield, Massachusetts. Callie has been lucky enough to travel widely from each of these locations, but a constant through each travel leg and transition has been her use of writing to capture and make sense of each…
A Sense of Place: Capturing the Unique Qualities of the Southwest Landscape Through Reading, Writing, and Exploration
Nourish your mind and spirit through writing in Santa Fe, New Mexico. This course will explore the writing of New Mexican and Southwestern authors including but not limited to Rudolfo Anaya, Leslie Marmon Silko, Kristen Valdez Quade, and N. Scott Momaday, each of whom capture something unique about their place and time. We will practice…
Ambrose Ferber
Ambrose Ferber landed his first role when he was five, playing The Injured Boy in a Commedia Dell’arte his father wrote. Since then, he has performed on stages throughout the southwest, most recently as the titular role in Cyrano de Bergerac in Fort Collins, Colorado, for Openstage Theatre. In the early 2000s he appeared in Henry IV, Part…
My Voice is in My Sword: Understanding Shakespeare Through Combat
Mercutio and Tybalt. Edgar and Edmund. Hamlet and Laertes. The fights, duels, and other “cooperative violence” in Shakespeare can be a thrilling denouement or a moment of absolute heartbreak, and they are a fun challenge for any fight director. But a good fight director also knows that these moments of violence are not isolated from…
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Colloquium Response to the Coronavirus Pandemic
The EE Ford Summer Teachers Colloquium is returning in the summer of 2021! We cannot wait to reconnect and recharge with fellow educators. We are currently planning an in-person program August 2-6, 2021, at Santa Fe Prep’s campus in Santa Fe, NM. If there is a surge in Covid cases or changes to the public…
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