Sean Duffy to be honored at annual Northern Virginia Leadership Awards
Sean Duffy has a mission to "change the world one student at a time," and plans to accomplish it through a hands-on curriculum he developed for Waples Mill Elementary School students. Leadership Fairfax will recognize the longtime science teacher, and Oakton Patch Readers' Choice winner for Best Teacher, at its annual Northern Virginia Leadership Awards ceremony Nov. 8 at Westwood Country Club in Vienna. "[I] am honored and pleased and all that about this award, and look forward to meeting the other awardees and other leaders from the NoVa area, and hope to share and exchange ideas on how we can all work together for what is quaintly called 'the greatest common good,'" Duffy said in an email to Oakton Patch. Over the years, Duffy has …
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Sean Duffy hopes to put school on the map for environmental science programs
As Waples Mill Elementary School begins to open its curriculum to more hands-on methods that promotes the importance of community, it is building on the foundation created by Sean Duffy's environmental science program that began nearly a decade ago. "I'm trying to redefine and expand the use of the word community to include all the little bugs and trees and the water, and children have a real role to play in creating a better future," Duffy said. With the help of students and faculty, he has built a purple martin colony, planted native habitats, created an arboretum, and is currently working on a couple outdoor classrooms — all while tweaking teaching methods to enhance the elementary science, arts and social studies curricula. Students …
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7:26 pm on Wednesday, October 17, 2012
So well deserved! He is in a rare category in FCPS! more ›