Our Wildwood, Summer 2021, Volume 46

THE WORLDWIDE WILDWOOD WEB Outreach Around the World

Teaching Teachers

by Steve Barrett, Director of Outreach

significant growth, extending the Systems Thinking program across the Los Angeles Unified School District schools and developing enhanced curriculum internationally, adding client schools in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. The foundational idea for the Outreach Center was that Wildwood’s philosophy and practice would always be at the leading edge of what works in schools—and needed to be available to others, to improve educational outcomes for students at schools everywhere. From the start, that idea had traction, and today, 20 years on, the Wildwood approach resonates around the world more than ever.

Since its founding, the Wildwood Outreach Center has been devoted to supporting public and independent schools and institutions in their efforts to create small, learner- centered schools. With an emphasis on Advisory, project- based learning, multicultural programs, and strengthening collaborative teaching communities, the Outreach Center meets the very specific needs of educators in schools in Los Angeles, around the country, and abroad. Wildwood’s outstanding faculty and administrators have hosted, mentored, and facilitated learning for more than 1,000 participants in 18 states and eight countries. In the past five years, the Outreach Center has experienced

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2002 2006

The Wildwood Outreach Center launches.

The Outreach Center publishes The Advisory Toolkit, a curriculum guide providing schools across the world access to Wildwood’s Advisory approach.

JEANNE FAUCI, long-time Wildwood parent, trustee, and communications director, becomes the Outreach Center director.

2001 Wildwood is the first independent school recipient of a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The funds helped launch the Outreach Center.

DEB CHRISTENSON, current upper school advisor and teacher, is named the center’s first director.

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