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2009 Residential Life Academy

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Residential Life Workshop Staff

Doug Dickson
Upper School Head
St. Stephen's Episcopal School, TX

As the Upper School Head, Doug manages the day-to-day operations of the school. Doug teaches math and coaches lacrosse along with residential responsibilities in this Boarding/Day school. Doug transitioned to this job after 26 years at St. Paul’s School in Concord, NH where he worked in a variety of roles in his career. He is a long-standing member of the TABS faculty for both the Winter and Summer Residential Life Workshops, and he has served as a national consultant on residential school issues. Doug has written for Independent School magazine, and he has been a frequent presenter at conferences throughout the country.


Carol Hotchkiss Eliot
Director
The Durango Institute for Co-Curricular Education, CO

Carol has 35 years of boarding school experience as a teacher, dorm head, learning specialist, multicultural advisor, dean, counselor, assistant head, and consultant to schools for program and residential planning. She is the director of Durango Institute for Co-Curricular Education, Co-Director of the Human Development Institute, and works with independent schools in the US, Canada, and internationally to help develop and strengthen co-curricular programs related to residential life, student services, community service learning, and diversity issues. Carol is the author of Quests & Quandaries, Personal Quests and Quandaries, Building a Residential Curriculum, and the upcoming publication of boarding school practices entitled Boarding School Best Practice. She has written for Independent School magazine and was a contributor to Healthy Choices, Healthy Schools.


Ginger Love Garcia
ESL Teacher/Developer, Lycée Français de New York
New York, NY

Ginger’s experience teaching and living overseas has instilled in her a strong interest in language and culture. She has cultivated this interest in her professional life, directing the English as a Second Language and International Student Programs at Tilton School for twelve years, and in her academic life, undertaking a Klingenstein Fellowship at Columbia University where she focused on the curricular and cultural needs of international students. Ginger is currently teaching and developing an ESL program at the Lycee Francais de New York.

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