Ensights Magazine
Faculty News: Winter 2022
What have our faculty and staff been up to since last summer?
Faculty births
Paolo Guazzini (Jessica)
Louie Amedeo Guazzini
October 2, 2021
Logan O’Connor (Kitty Ganier ‘97)
Emerson Wiley O’Connor
August 2, 2021
Olivia Fitts ’10 (Miller)
Charlotte Morris Fitts
January 8, 2022
Faculty Weddings
Gloria Kemp Maas
Facility & Risk Analyst
Married Kyle Maas on Oct. 30, 2021
Faculty Retirements
Amy Rich
Grade 2 Teacher
26 years at Ensworth
In Memory
Shirley Jenkins
Assistant to the Head of School
At Ensworth from 1992-2012
Dec. 11, 1935–Sept. 2, 2021
Quentin Quigley
Fleet Manager
At Ensworth from 2007-2010
Aug. 29, 1950–Sept. 21, 2021
Faculty & Staff News
Faculty & staff news Ensworth’s Head of Lower School Heather Caponi was awarded the “Lifetime of Distinguished Service Award” at Brookfield Academy. Mrs. Caponi served at Brookfield for 25 years before coming to Ensworth. She arrived at Brookfield Academy in 1996 and made a wonderful first impression on their community, first as a teacher and later as an administrator. Brookfield Academy calls her “the difference-maker.”
Greg Chambers was selected by Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association as the 2020-2021 Girls’ Tennis Coach of the Year.
Evie Coates just finished illustrating Mayor Cooper’s holiday card. She was commissioned by his wife, Laura, who saw her work on the puzzles Evie has also illustrated.
Evie Coates, Leslea Gaines, Heidi Wolter, and Caitlin Harris presented at the Tennessee Association of Independent Schools (TAIS) Conference. Their session titled, “Mosaic: From Cross-Curricular Collaboration to Cultural Celebration,” focused on tradition (music, art, and literature) as a way to develop cultural competence alongside language learning. In the session, they detailed Ensworth’s 3rd grade “Mosaic” professional development, learning goals, and evening program.
Kindergarten Teaching Fellow, Caroline Corley, is currently working towards a Master of Education in Reading Education at Vanderbilt. She is in her second year and successfully completed and passed her final Capstone Project. The project required her to analyze and connect her learning to the seven International Reading Specialist Standards as well as to her Philosophy of Literacy Education. She will graduate in May 2022.
Megan Florentine has been invited by Responsive Classroom (RC) to become a member of the team that evaluates applicants to their Responsive Classroom Educator program. She will help Responsive Classroom evaluate applications for this innovative, nationwide program. This is in addition to the work she already does for RC as a Consulting Teacher/Presenter.
Jenny Krzystowczyk and Trey House presented at the TAIS Conference on November 8. In their presentation “Innovating into Minecraft,” they discussed how they brought Minecraft to middle schoolers during the pandemic and how they have continued to integrate it into the curriculum.
Ensworth’s High School Latin Teacher and Capstone Director, Jennifer Ishee, tied for fourth place in the Nashville Chess Open in August.
JC Johnson, Director of Photography & Digital Art at the Frist Campus, had two pieces of art chosen for exhibits at Belmont University and the Frist Art Museum: Among the Beyond, an alumni exhibition through February 25, 2022 in Leu Art Gallery at Belmont, and Nashville Art Teachers: Beyond the Classroom, March 4 through August 28, 2022 in Conte Community Arts Gallery at Frist Art Museum.
Whitney Johnson won the Petco Love Stories Contest. Her adoption story tied for 3rd place and won $25,000 for Proverbs 12:10 Animal Rescue. Read her and Dash’s story at petcolove.org/love-story/dashduncan.
Associate Head of High School, Doug Magee, was reappointed as a member of the HBCU Success Advisory Board. The advisory board for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Success provides recommendations and guidance to the Tennessee Higher Education Commission in multiple areas, while also serving as ambassadors for HBCU Success.
Edimary Morales, Lower School Spanish Teacher, presented at the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Language (ACTFL) Convention November 19-21. She spoke on Comprehensible Input Activities that Get Students Up and Speaking.
Angela Pursley (and Dan) became grandparents for the first time on October 14, 2021 with the birth of Manning Archer Pursley.
In August, Ensworth’s High School Director of Choral and Orchestral Music Elias Salazar accepted a position as the new Music Director & Conductor of the Belmont University Opera. He will continue in his roles at Ensworth and as Artistic Director & Conductor of the Trevecca Symphony.
Coach DuJuan Sharp became a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist through National Strength and Conditioning Association. The NSCA is a nonprofit association dedicated to advancing strength and conditioning and related sport science professions around the world. This honor is considered the gold standard for strength and conditioning and sports performance training.
Amy Skillicorn is giving a talk at the Classical Association of the Middle West and South (CAMWS) in March. The talk will be on her Special Topics Paper she completed in her Ph.D. coursework and focuses on Paul’s language in 1 Corinthians resurrection theology and how it is interpreted by Latin Christian theologians during the formation of Christian doctrine. She completed the Cornell Women in Leadership Certificate Program in December.
Fitness Faculty Abner Smith completed the USA Weightlifting training course and received his Level 1 Coach certification.
Dr. Teresa Todd, High School French and Spanish Teacher, presented at the Tennessee Foreign Language Teaching Association Conference. She taught about the visual content platform Genial.ly and how to use it to create interactive and interesting content for students. Her presentation displayed how teachers can create video presentations, interactive infographics, interactive presentations, fun games, and escape rooms to keep students engaged.
The Tennessee Turfgrass Association awarded the Ensworth School Baseball Field this year’s High School Field of the Year Award. Kudos to Doug Wilson, Milton Valencia, John Clintsman, Aaron Regan, and Parker Bell, Grounds Crew at Ensworth, for their dedication and hard work on all the grounds at Ensworth.
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Creative Technology Center: Inspiring the Next Generation of Creators
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