{"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\/sv\/board\/bessie-speers-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Bessie Speers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Elizabeth \"Bessie\" Cromwell Speers tilltr\u00e4dde officiellt som Middlesex sjunde skolchef den 1 juli 2023 och har med sig mer \u00e4n 30 \u00e5rs erfarenhet av friskolor. Tidigare var hon under \u00e5tta \u00e5r rektor f\u00f6r Tower Hill School i Wilmington, Delaware; hennes f\u00f6rsta rektorstj\u00e4nst var p\u00e5 The Ethel Walker School i Simsbury, Connecticut, d\u00e4r hon tj\u00e4nstgjorde 2007-2015. Bessie har \u00e4ven varit bitr\u00e4dande rektor, dekanus f\u00f6r fakulteten, engelskl\u00e4rare och coach p\u00e5 Episcopal Academy n\u00e4ra Philadelphia; chef f\u00f6r placering och strategisk planering p\u00e5 Calvert School i Baltimore; chef f\u00f6r antagning och ekonomiskt st\u00f6d, l\u00e4rare och coach p\u00e5 The Bryn Mawr School i Baltimore; och bitr\u00e4dande chef f\u00f6r antagning, coach och r\u00e5dgivare p\u00e5 The Loomis Chaffee School i Connecticut. Hon inledde sin karri\u00e4r med att arbeta f\u00f6r National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bessie \u00e4r utbildad vid The Bryn Mawr School och har en B.A. i engelska fr\u00e5n Middlebury College och en M.L.A. fr\u00e5n Johns Hopkins University; hon har \u00e4ven studerat vid Middlebury's Bread Loaf School of English. Hon fick ett Klingenstein Fellowship vid Columbia University's Teachers College 2014 och har varit aktiv inom olika yrkesorganisationer,&nbsp;<em>inklusive&nbsp;<\/em>Connecticut Association of Independent Schools, The Center for Spiritual and Ethical Education och The National Coalition of Girls' Schools samt The Heads Network och The Heads and Principals Association, som hon b\u00e5da var ordf\u00f6rande f\u00f6r. Bessie har suttit i styrelsen f\u00f6r Association of Delaware Valley Independent Schools (ADVIS) och \u00e4r f\u00f6r n\u00e4rvarande ledamot i styrelsen f\u00f6r Middlebury College.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bessie har l\u00e4nge varit bekant med Middlesex genom sin man Tom, en presbyteriansk pr\u00e4st som tog examen fr\u00e5n skolan 1976. De har tv\u00e5 barn, Nellie och Guthrie, samt Sweeta Yaqoobi fr\u00e5n Kabul, Afghanistan, som \u00e4r en hedersdotter och har varit en del av familjen Speers liv sedan 2017.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":57559,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false},"country":[],"staff_type":[95],"class_list":["post-57558","board","type-board","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","staff_type-board"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bessie Speers | ASSIST Scholars<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.assistscholars.org\/sv\/staff-board\/bessie-speers\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"sv_SE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bessie Speers | ASSIST Scholars\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Elizabeth \u201cBessie\u201d Cromwell Speers officially began her tenure as Middlesex\u2019s seventh head of school on July 1, 2023, bringing more than 30 years of experience in independent schools to the position. 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