March 10, 2008
Dear Queen Anne School Faculty member:
In the spirit of moving and changing with the times, observing the tight economic times for our families and thus for our school, we are enthusiastic about ensuring that Queen Anne School offers the highest quality educational and community program to our students and their families. As a faculty member, you play a key leadership role in making our programs dynamic, responsive, and engaging for our students and their parents. Guided by our goals and philosophy and as part of our reassessment of past success, we have made some significant changes to the Education Committee’s proposal/grant process of the past. We invite you to do some creative thinking over the upcoming spring break and Easter. We hope you will join us in this new venture with the spirit of intellectual curiosity and creativity that has characterized our wonderful program of past years.
As you review the following new approach, please know that you are encouraged to visit with the Headmaster and discuss your ideas. Our goal is to help our Education Committee program grow to continue to be responsive and engaging for you.
1. First, we invite you to submit proposals this year beginning April 10 for the following “partnership” between individual (or teams of) faculty members and Queen Anne School. As in the past, the proposal invitation is offered to teachers who will be teaching at Queen Anne School during the 2008-09 school year; it must be in harmony with the school’s philosophy, and it must be approved by the Headmaster before consideration by the committee. Unlike the past, we will accept additional proposals through December of 2008 and your proposal might be for a program offered to an expanded target audience to include both younger students, alumni, and adults.
2. We encourage you to propose to create a new instructional program that you will design, share with the Queen Anne School community while you are here, but you will “own” this program yourself;
3. Once approved, you may use the QAS facilities/technology etc and run your program with Queen Anne School operating it as a full program (QAS insurance will cover and QAS will support the underlying infrastructure— space used, utilities, Internet, equipment—for a fee of 15% of the gross income);
4. You may reapply and have first priority claim annually (understanding the priority of Queen Anne School programs) on the facilities and equipment here in future years;
5. The program would be yours but while you are here it would all be under the QAS philosophy and at the Headmaster’s final direction. It may be offered as a service to adults or young children beyond the scope of the current QAS educational program.
“ Those who work a little harder and are willing to take a few more careful risks to accomplish more than the usual can make a little more difference in our school and in their own lives.” We encourage you to think broadly and expand your own skills and talents to a new level of teaching and program success. The new applications for proposals will be on-line for your convenience by Wednesday, March 12, at www.queenanne.org/educationcommitteegrant2008 .
Mary Lappe
Chair, Education Committee
The Board of Queen Anne School
Upper Marlboro, Maryland
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