{"id":57558,"date":"2025-07-02T09:10:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T13:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.assistscholars.org\/?post_type=board&#038;p=57558"},"modified":"2025-07-02T12:27:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T16:27:22","slug":"bessie-speers","status":"publish","type":"board","link":"https:\/\/www.assistscholars.org\/es\/board\/bessie-speers\/","title":{"rendered":"Bessie Speers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabeth \"Bessie\" Cromwell Speers comenz\u00f3 oficialmente su mandato como s\u00e9ptima directora de Middlesex el 1 de julio de 2023, aportando al cargo m\u00e1s de 30 a\u00f1os de experiencia en escuelas independientes. Anteriormente, trabaj\u00f3 durante ocho a\u00f1os como directora de Tower Hill School en Wilmington, Delaware; su primera direcci\u00f3n fue en The Ethel Walker School en Simsbury, Connecticut, donde trabaj\u00f3 de 2007 a 2015. La experiencia previa de Bessie tambi\u00e9n incluye el cargo de subdirectora de la escuela, decana del profesorado, profesora de ingl\u00e9s y entrenadora en la Episcopal Academy, cerca de Filadelfia; directora de colocaci\u00f3n y planificaci\u00f3n estrat\u00e9gica en la Calvert School de Baltimore; directora de admisi\u00f3n y ayuda financiera, profesora y entrenadora en The Bryn Mawr School de Baltimore; y directora asociada de admisi\u00f3n, entrenadora y asesora en The Loomis Chaffee School de Connecticut. Comenz\u00f3 su carrera trabajando con la Asociaci\u00f3n Nacional de Escuelas Independientes (NAIS).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Graduada por The Bryn Mawr School, Bessie es licenciada en Filolog\u00eda Inglesa por el Middlebury College y tiene un m\u00e1ster en Filolog\u00eda Inglesa por la Universidad Johns Hopkins; tambi\u00e9n estudi\u00f3 en la Bread Loaf School of English de Middlebury. Recibi\u00f3 una beca Klingenstein en el Teachers College de la Universidad de Columbia en 2014 y ha participado activamente en varias organizaciones profesionales,&nbsp;<em>incluida la&nbsp;<\/em>Connecticut Association of Independent Schools, The Center for Spiritual and Ethical Education y The National Coalition of Girls' Schools, as\u00ed como The Heads Network y The Heads and Principals Association, de las que fue presidenta. Bessie form\u00f3 parte del consejo de la Asociaci\u00f3n de Escuelas Independientes del Valle de Delaware (ADVIS) y actualmente es fideicomisaria del Middlebury College.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bessie conoce Middlesex desde hace mucho tiempo a trav\u00e9s de su marido Tom, un ministro presbiteriano que se gradu\u00f3 en la Escuela en 1976. 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