Director of Operations: Hunter Patterson
Dyslexic himself, Hunter attended OG-based Camperdown Academy (SC) as a student. After graduating with a Bachelor of Science from Wingate University, he helped his former Headmaster, Dana Blackhurst, start The Chandler School (SC). At Chandler, Hunter did just about every job, from being a founding board member to helping renovate the 200-year old estate house to classroom teaching to Directing the Summer Camp. Administratively, he assisted with admissions, discipline, representing the school in the community and at conferences, etc. He looks forward to bringing the best practices of these schools, including a focus on the whole child, individualizing using the Theory of Multiple Intelligences, and an executive functions system, to Bilgrav. |
Director of Curriculum & Tutoring: Katie Cashette
Katie was trained and taught at The Kildonan School in New York before earning a Masters in Cognitive Science in Education from Columbia University-Teachers College. She was founding faculty at Joyce Bilgrav’s third OG-based school, the Liberty School (CO), where she helped design the interdisciplinary curricular program for twice-exceptional students, the Film program, and the Outdoor Pursuits program. She is excited to coalesce, at The Bilgrav School, these schools’ most effective elements, such as a literacy program comprised of daily, 1:1 OG tutoring combined with an independent reinforcement period and writing class for dyslexic learners, a teaching staff deeply knowledgeable of the way dyslexic, gifted, and multi-sensory learners think, real-world application of learning through community partnerships, a curriculum that is naturally S.T.E.A.M. with a focus on Arts integration, and an exceptional school culture yielding kind, confident, capable students. |
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