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Chris Chakeres
Chris Chakeres recently returned to teaching Middle School Science after a decade in administration. Chris received a MA in Teaching from Johns Hopkins University and has happily and successfully transitioned between many roles including teaching elementary, middle, and upper school, leading middle and upper school divisions, and coaching students, colleagues, and teachers. He loves what…
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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…
Enchantment Regained: Finding Balance in an Era of Transition
Does the trajectory of your career path in education include transition to a new role? Have you wondered about the personal demands and costs of leadership roles in post-pandemic school environments? Prepare to find your center and rediscover your passion among other forward-thinking educators who recognize the need to reframe their places within their respective…
Move and Be Moved: Let Your Story Unfold through Writing and Yoga
The ancient holistic system of yoga–immensely popular today as a meditation and healing art–helps us to open our hearts, recovering our emotional core and connection to the world through breath, movement, and awareness. Poetry, called the “original breath,” seeks to do the same through words, images, and sound. In this course, the transformative paths of…
Leza Lowitz
Leza Lowitz is an internationally renowned yoga instructor and an award-winning author of over twenty books in multiple genres, including the groundbreaking Yoga Poems: Lines to Unfold By (Winner of the PEN/Josephine Miles Poetry Award) and Yoga Heart: Lines on the Six Perfections. Her most recent book is a YA novel in verse, Up from the Sea (Penguin/Random…
About The Program
2024 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…
A New Mexico Photographic Adventure
The back roads of northern New Mexico have captivated many famous photographers who engaged with the people, land, and sky of this high desert landscape with a camera in their hands. It turns out that Ansel Adams, Laura Gilpin, Elliot Porter, Edward Weston, among many others, were right — photography is the best way to…
Sarah Meghan Lee
Sarah Meghan Lee worked as a photojournalist for 15 years, first based in Rwanda, Africa, then New Mexico, and for 8 years in Mexico City, covering social, environmental, and human rights issues. Her work has been published in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian (London), The Independent(London), Elle, and Marie Claire. Sarah won first place in the…
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.
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 22, 2024, with a Welcome Reception. Courses will begin the morning of July 23. Each course meets from about 9am until about 4pm July 23-26. This schedule may vary slightly depending on field trips and the individual needs of each course. More detailed schedules for each…
Lisa Nordstrum
Lisa Nordstrum teaches Middle School New Mexico History and an Upper School honors Women’s Studies course. She graduated from Colorado College with a major in Southwest Studies and a minor in Women’s Studies, earned her NM K-12 teaching certification at the University of New Mexico, and has completed many graduate level courses in a variety…
The Allure of the Southwest: Inspiration and Creation of the 1920s Art Colonies
The Roaring Twenties initiated an artistic time in the US; many artists and writers migrated to Europe to seek adventure and inspiration in the bustle of Parisian life. Others ventured to the Southwest, seeking open spaces and solitude. Women were most integral in establishing the vibrant art colonies of the 1920s in New Mexico. These communities…
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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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