{"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\/nb\/board\/bessie-speers\/","title":{"rendered":"Bessie Speers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Elizabeth \"Bessie\" Cromwell Speers tiltr\u00e5dte offisielt som Middlesex' syvende skolesjef 1. juli 2023, og hun tar med seg mer enn 30 \u00e5rs erfaring fra friskoler inn i stillingen. Hun har tidligere v\u00e6rt rektor ved Tower Hill School i Wilmington i Delaware i \u00e5tte \u00e5r, og hennes f\u00f8rste rektorjobb var ved Ethel Walker School i Simsbury i Connecticut, der hun var rektor fra 2007 til 2015. Bessie har ogs\u00e5 erfaring som assisterende rektor, dekan for fakultetet, engelskl\u00e6rer og coach ved Episcopal Academy i n\u00e6rheten av Philadelphia, direkt\u00f8r for plassering og strategisk planlegging ved Calvert School i Baltimore, direkt\u00f8r for opptak og \u00f8konomisk st\u00f8tte, l\u00e6rer og coach ved The Bryn Mawr School i Baltimore, og assisterende direkt\u00f8r for opptak, coach og r\u00e5dgiver ved The Loomis Chaffee School i Connecticut. Hun begynte sin karriere i National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bessie er utdannet ved Bryn Mawr School og har en BA i engelsk fra Middlebury College og en M.L.A. fra Johns Hopkins University; hun har ogs\u00e5 studert ved Middlebury's Bread Loaf School of English. 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