Teacher Training
Annmarie Chesebro, ACT coordinator and adjunct professor in Marylhurst University’s MAT program, wrote an article titled “Education Innovation” that appeared in the fall 2006 issue of the magazine "Open Spaces."
Read the Chalkboard Project's interview with current ACT teaching apprentice Johannah Withrow-Robinson about Arbor's ACT program in collaboration with Marylhurst University (under “Our Voices, Our Schools”).
Jenny Lowe Cook (ACT '08, St. John's '06) reflects upon sharing Homer with students in her essay "When the Ancients Speak, Children Listen" in St. John's Fall 2010 issue of The College.
School Leadership
Kit Abel Hawkins, Director of Arbor School, on the founding of Arbor School.
Publications
The Molalla Pioneer ran an article on Linus Rollman's visit to Molalla River Academy, whose students have been testing Arbor's first Algebra textbook, Jousting Armadillos and other Equations: An Introduction to Algebra.
Arbor & Arbor Graduates
Read "The Future of Oregon Public Education: A Q&A with Ben Cannon, Governor Kitzhaber's Education Policy Advisor" in the February 2012 issue of Metro Parent. Ben taught Senior Humanities at Arbor.
Arbor was featured in the February 2011 issue of Portland Monthly.
Abby Conyers, Arbor ’06 and Catlin Gabel ’10, mentions her interest in teaching in her interview featured in The Oregonian’s 2010 Academic Achievers column.
Several articles have appeared in the press focusing on Arbor’s eighth grade Senior Project requirement:
Christina Schmidt, Arbor ’09 and currently at Lincoln High School, raised funds to build a school in Cambodia.
Natalie Lerner, Arbor ’10 and currently at Oregon Episcopal School, developed healthy, low-cost recipes and created a cookbook complete with an on-line cooking blog for children. Click here to learn more.
On the 8th grade Senior Project in general.
