Ensights Magazine

Summer 2020 — Featured Articles

A Message from the Head of School: Opportunity

David Braemer, Head of School

Mr. Braemer updates the community about the tremendous opportunities that present themselves during such challenging times.
Teachers from K-12 Adapt Well to Remote Learning

Paul Downey '92, Assistant Director of Marketing & Communications

Teachers throughout Ensworth’s K-12 continuum learned much from their students and about themselves during remote learning this spring. We caught up with a few select teachers to see how they seized the opportunity and remained nimble during this unique and experimental period.
A Focus on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

David Braemer, Head of School

In recent months, people across our nation have been engaged in deep reflection about the systemic racial inequities in our nation’s fabric that advantage some and oppress others. While these injustices are rooted in our past, they remain omnipresent. If we at Ensworth are to live up to our motto, In Search of Truth, we must recognize and respond to the lived truth of everyone in our community.
Faculty Book Club Reflections

Hayley Brantley, Middle School History Teacher

Hayley Brantley, Middle School History Teacher and Service Learning Coordinator, reflects upon the books chosen by the K-12 faculty in light of the increasing discussions on race in America.

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Community

List of 3 news stories.

From the Parent Association

A message from Elizabeth Gerken, President of the Ensworth Parent Association for 2020-2021:
Faces of the Ensworth Parent Association

The Parent Association profiles three Ensworth parents: Dr. Christopher Rehm, Dr. Kiabe Allen, and Dr. Stacey Vallejo.
Event Photos — January–July 2020

Enjoy these photos from events from the first part of 2020, including Closing Exercises and Graduation

Arts

List of 2 news stories.

High School Musical: The Addams Family

Shawn Knight, Director of the production of The Addams Family, describes the hit musical that happened in early March.
Middle School Spring Play: An Evening of Decisions in Three Student-Directed One-Acts

Our Middle School winter play this year was a collection of short one-act plays by various playwrights. Each play had a very small cast (most just two or three actors) and minimal set and costume design requirements, so the focus was really on the wordplay and story delivery within each scene.

Athletics

List of 2 news stories.

High School Athletic Highlights

Due to the closure of campuses in the spring, some sports were not able to complete their seasons.
Middle School Athletic Highlights

Due to the closure of campuses in spring, some sports were not able to complete their seasons. Here are some achievements from this year's short seasons.

Faculty

List of 9 news stories.

An Interview with David Whitfield

A fourteen-year veteran Ensworth teacher and community leader, David Whitfield has recently assumed the role of Director of Community Engagement & Inclusion and sits on the Ensworth Leadership Team.
Faculty Learning Never Stops

During the summer break, all Ensworth faculty—every grade level and all subjects—engaged in professional development in pursuit of enhancing their teaching skills and knowledge.
Faculty News

What have faculty and staff been up to recently, both personally and professionally?
Get to Know Ensworth’s New Head of Lower School: Heather Caponi

Heather Caponi joined Ensworth's community in the summer of 2020 as Head of Lower School. Get to know Mrs. Caponi:
Retiring Faculty Tribute: Bruce Libonn

How can I best share the impact Bruce has had on Ensworth? The Lower School has grown with more students and more teachers under his care. The curriculum has been enriched by the adoption of Singapore math, the addition of the Teaching Fellows program, the Language and Math faculty leaders in Lower School, the fifth-grade end-of-year celebration assembly, and the commitment Bruce has always had to his students and to the Lower School faculty.
Retiring Faculty Tribute: Camy Sanchez

22 years! How did you do it? I read some facts for the year you joined the Ensworth faculty in 1998. Here are a few hot items that year: A little search engine called “Google” was born. “Furby” was famous. Nokia made the IT phone. Titantic was the highest-grossing movie.
Retiring Faculty Tribute: Dee Dee Little

DeeDee and I came to Ensworth 31 years ago, in 1989. She must have been 12 at the time, I believe. And here’s a little-known fact: DeeDee and I went to the same school in Knoxville when we were kids and had the same eighth-grade English teacher, Betty Friedman. Not the same year, though; I am, of course, much older than she.
Retiring Faculty Tribute: Keith Crowe

Consummate team player. Utility fielder. Jack of all trades. Multi-tasker extraordinaire. Master teacher. Champion for all students. Lover of all things Ensworth. Ernie to my Bert. And Renaissance man. While all these descriptors or monikers are apt or fitting, none truly captures the full essence of Keith Crowe.
Faculty Bookshelf — Summer 2020

What are the faculty and staff members reading in the summer of 2020?

Alumni

List of 4 news stories.

Alumni Class Notes

What have our alumni been up to since the last Ensights?
Alumni Profile: Dr. Shannon Niedermeyer '02

The passions and professions of our alumni reflect the lasting impact of our school’s Mission statement. Read on to see how three Ensworth alumni are facing current challenges and opportunities. Shannon Neidermeyer ’02 is profiled regarding her experience on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic at Johns Hopkins Medical Center.
Alumni Profile: Kobie Jarmon '13

The passions and professions of our alumni reflect the lasting impact of our school’s Mission statement.
Read on to see how three Ensworth alumni are facing current challenges and opportunities. Kobie Jarmon ‘13 shares her perspective as a Black woman on current events.
Alumni Profile: Tavarres Jefferson '09

The passions and professions of our alumni reflect the lasting impact of our school’s Mission statement.
Read on to see how three Ensworth alumni are facing current challenges and opportunities. We interview Tavarres Jefferson ’09 about the effects the pandemic has had on his Executive Residency Program at HCA.