WA STATE NEW SCHOOL START-UP EXPERIENCE

Co-Founder & Program Developer: Bellevue International School

Founder: Kirkland International Community School

Founder & 1st Year Principal: Marysville Arts & Technology High School

Planning Principal: Kingston High School

OTHER

Stanford University Terman Scholastic Award for “Outstanding Contributions to Teaching.” Presented at Stanford.

PhD. Humanistic Anthropology, Union Institute. Thesis Advisors: Dr. Christopher Badcock, Professor of Sociology, Emeritus, London School of Economics; Dr. David Spain, Professor Emeritus, Anthropology, University of Washington, Seattle.

WA Schools for the 21st. Century Grant for Bellevue International School startup: $300,000

Recipient, Fulbright Teaching Exchange to Denmark

Recipient, National Endowment for the Humanities & CBE Independent Study Grant

Washington State: A+ Commission Sub-Committee on Successful Schools & Performance Incentives

Antioch University, Seattle, Former Adjunct Faculty:

Teacher Field Supervision & Performance.

Videos:

Bruce Saari: Poems for the Humanities

These are a few of the poems that fostered discussion in our year long Humanities classes, whether at Sammamish H.S, Bellevue International School, or Kirkland International Community School.

Archive:

Ozymandias – Percy Shelley – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITJrCePwUBM&list=PLmusiTGRzEUml5_aiXoyK9UWmALA7rXj4&index=1

Euclid Alone – Edna St Vincent Millay – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qd7xJ0GMBgQ&list=PLmusiTGRzEUml5_aiXoyK9UWmALA7rXj4&index=3

The Force that Through the Green Fuse – Dylan Thomas – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyMoM7-Dh2k&list=PLmusiTGRzEUml5_aiXoyK9UWmALA7rXj4&index=2

June 2024

Ozymandias — Percy Shelley — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlgvwsy_q4c

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Euclid Alone Has Looked on Beauty Bare — Edna St Vincent Millay — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iC8xEh90UCc

Chimney Sweeper — William Blake — https://www.youtube.com/watch?

Musee des Beaux Arts — W.H. Auden — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4P9Nn24rFOU

Cupid & My Campaspe — Edward De Vere or John Lyly — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0HfyOqZOkA

In My Craft or Sullen Art — Dylan Thomas — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkGQsjjLb00

When in Disgrace With Fortune — Wm Shakespeare-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYUpzWMqys0

My Mistress’ Eyes — Wm. Shakespeare —  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08o6Xv-ieCY

Ode on a Grecian Urn — John Keats — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHWBR18Mu2E

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night — Dylan Thomas — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diLQd2-PzwE

They Flee From Me — Thomas Wyatt the Elder — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amCuJyC7MJc

Ode on Melancholy — John Keats — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNRt9-OvACw

Tyger, Tyger — William Blake —  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0gnOqGal5Y

Convergence of the Twain — Thomas Harday — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDqcyH3EZkA

Force That Through the Green Fuse — Dylan Thomas — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3YJDN2Q_Po

Astrophel & Stella — Sir Philip Sidney — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTVEAm8kbEc