Cranbrook Educational Community – Director of Schools – Position Statement 10
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A Rare Opportunity
The next Director of Schools will have the opportunity to further Cranbrook’ s educational mission nationally through continued curricular innovation as part of its new collaboration with MIT. To participate with a world-leading university in a venture beyond the confines of the campus is indicative of Cranbrook’ s outward-facing view, as well as demonstrative of its commitment to continuous improvement in teaching and learning.
curriculum and pedagogy. With Edgerton’ s 25 years of experience, the program includes project-based learning, inquiry, and the use of Maker Studios to enhance student engagement at all grade levels and across all content areas. Some 70 Cranbrook faculty participated to-date in workshops with MIT faculty on how to incorporate design thinking into their curricula. As a result of one early collaborative effort, a pioneering MITdeveloped course in cell biology is now being offered by Cranbrook’ s science department.
Arts
Given the aesthetics that pervades the campus, the Fine and Performing Arts are woven into the very fabric of the Schools. From looms to welding, fiber art to jewelrymaking, sculpture to photography and the digital arts, dance to band, the arts are critical components of the curriculum. Graduates of the Academy of Art teach in the program and continue to create art themselves. With studios and performance spaces for music, drama and dance, the sights and sounds of the arts at Cranbrook are omnipresent.
Cranbrook has been selected as the only school outside the Boston area to collaborate with the Edgerton Center at MIT in an initiative to accelerate innovation in