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Alumni Accolades, October 2024

Leislie Godo-Solo, IRT ’91 and Ain Ealy, IRT ’21 met up at a week-long Summer Institute titled Towards a More Equitable and Inclusive Digital World in Latin America, sponsored by the Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies at Vanderbilt University and in collaboration with Tulane’s Stone Center for Latin American Studies and Arizona’s Center for Latin American Studies. Read more on Leislie’s experience.

(L-R) Leislie Godo-Solo, IRT ’91 and Ain Ealy, IRT ’21

Angela Batista, IRT ’96
Batista was honored by the University of Vermont (UVM) during their annual Andrew Harris Legacy Reception. This annual event honors the legacy and work of UVM community members who have inspired and strengthened diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Alumni Committee Update

After a year of dedicated service, IRT Alumni Committee (AC) Co-Chair Lissette Lorenz, IRT’16 is stepping down. Lissette’s Co-Chair Sumit Karn, IRT ’22 will stay on as the sole AC Chair. The Committee thanks Lissette for her visionary leadership and looks forward to continuing with the initiatives Lissette and Sumit have started together.

Currently, the AC is collecting input from the extended IRT alumni community regarding the kinds of programming and engagement folks would like to see from the AC. If you are interested in getting involved or have yet to share your thoughts, please respond to this very brief Alumni Engagement Survey on the IRT Alumni Network. The AC meets once about once a month and works under the supervision of Arts & Sciences Programs Specialist, Brittany Zorn, IRT’ 13.

Calling all IRT Alumni Authors!

Many times throughout the year, the IRT acknowledges donors and volunteers, both IRT alumni and non-alumni thanking them for their service. As we continue to see so many of our esteemed alumni contributing to their fields as published authors, the IRT would like to include a signed copy of an alumni book with these acknowledgments as a powerful way to further the connection of IRT supporters.

If you want to share in this way, please send a signed copy of your work to the IRT office. We will be accepting signed copies on an ongoing basis and sending them to the many wonderful individuals who help the IRT community in their own unique and important ways.

Are you on the IRT Publications list? If you want to share a synopsis of your work in an upcoming newsletter post, please reach out!

Signed copies can be sent to the address below- thank you for your donation!
Institute for Recruitment of Teachers
Phillips Academy
180 Main Street
Andover, MA 01810

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Executive Director Letter, June 2024

IRT Scholars and alums are gearing up for our 33rd Summer Workshop. As Freire reminds us, education is a tool for liberation and love. I am excited that we have continued to expand on the Summer Workshop – now allowing IRT Faculty to instruct, design, and facilitate their courses. Our online platform enables scholars to engage live and through recordings – and we can support all IRT Scholars with curriculum and robust advising.

In our current times, we must be instructing scholars in frameworks and methodologies we are seeing in the field and our courses of study. Our IRT alums have unique perspectives, research, and pedagogical approaches. We are grateful to have such a robust community of scholars, practitioners and more to help build a place of intellectual inquiry and holistic student development.

University of Kentucky Joins the IRT Consortium

The IRT welcomes the University of Kentucky as it’s newest member to the IRT Consortium! The IRT Consortium consists of colleges and universities that support the goal to increase and diversify educators in K-12 and higher education in the U.S. By admitting and funding IRT students to their Master’s and Ph.D. programs in the humanities, social sciences, arts, education, computer science, and mathematics, our consortium are key collaborators in our program delivery.