Jan Maguire

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Nashoba Brooks: Jan Maguire [NBS Summer Center Director and former math teacher] remembers a school assembly where you stood up and asked some hard questions of Representative Chet Atkins.
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Jan said that she was shifting uneasily in her seat but at the same time thinking, "Here's a girl who will hang tough and do good work."Were you aware that you were being "tough"?

OTHERS: Barbara Anthony, LWV, 3 Concord Greene #3; Judy Quanrud, FinCom, 36 Rollingwood Lane; Wayne Chouinard, P.E., Beals & Thomas, Inc.; John Bensley, P.E., Beals & Thomas, Inc.; Jan MaGuire, Nashoba Brooks School
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The Board heard a request from Jan MaGuire, Director of the Summer Session at placePlaceNameNashoba PlaceTypeBrooks PlaceNameSchool, addressStreet200 Strawberry Hill Road to grant a "site" license for a Recreational Camp for Children.
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Ms. MaGuire provided the Board with a copy of the traffic flow plan for the facility and noted that there would be no food service provided for the summer session students.

OTHERS: Jan Maguire, Nashoba Brooks School, 200 Strawberry Hill Road Due to lack of a quorum, the Concord Board of Health meeting for Tuesday, December 19, 2006 was postponed until January 9, 2007.

As a prelude to the evening's discussion, faculty member Jan Maguire illustrated the way in which Nashoba Brooks students are encouraged to grapple with the complexity of learning and the respect that their teachers show for this effort. In introducing a video presentation of "grappling" during a math class she had taught that day, she said, "Gender research informs us that capable girls have more of a tendency to drop math courses than do their boy peers.
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When her students go off to algebra and geometry and get complicated math terms thrown at them, they are not going to forget what they did in sixth grade with Jan."

As a prelude to the evening's discussion, faculty member Jan Maguire illustrated the way in which Nashoba Brooks students are encouraged to grapple with the complexity of learning and the respect that their teachers show for this effort.In introducing a video presentation of "grappling" during a math class she had taught that day, she said, "Gender research informs us that capable girls have more of a tendency to drop math courses than do their boy peers.The Nashoba Brooks curriculum exposes students to symbolic language at early stages of their math learning.By encouraging girls to wrestle with algebraic ,mumbo jumbo,' we help them to experience the algebraic structure as well as the math itself."She then showed a scene during which sixth grade girls explored the concept of zero.The students took an active role in exploring approaches to the lesson, analyzing what they were learning, and responding eagerly to Jan's characteristically humorous prompts ("Tell me if this gets boring," she says, while filling the board with a long string of many numbers plus zero, all of which boringly equal zero), and acting as coaches for each other.

Following the video, as an example of "complex learning," Jan shared with the Sizers and trustees a "pantoon," a poem that has much in common with mathematical patterns.She posed some of the same questions about it that she asks of her sixth grade students, for example:
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When her students go off to algebra and geometry and get complicated math terms thrown at them, they are not going to forget what they did in sixth grade with Jan."
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Jan's kids may get it that day, may still get it the next day, but she might have to go over the lesson in two more days.
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Jan Maguire gave an example of how the school-parent partnership is nourished at Nashoba Brooks.
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What a teacher like Jan does is so difficult and demanding—how do we take care of adults who do that?

In two decades of service to Nashoba Brooks School, Jan Maguire has served as Math Department Chair, Team Leader, and Co-Chair of the Long Range Plan.Jan was selected as one of thirty-nine educators in The Disney Corporation national search for Teacher of the Year.
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Jan MaguireSummer Center DirectorNashoba Brooks School