Jacqueline Thurston and David Carpenter

Thurston and Carpenter’s innovative teaching idea, “Adventure Programming,” focuses on the school’s Project Adventure classes and camps, which partner after school enrichment with physical education. These classes and camps teach students life skills such as shared leadership, respectful collaboration, teamwork, negotiation and transcending comfort zones. The Voya grant will be used to take these classes and camps to the next level through the purchase and installation of new equipment to expand the elements of the Project Adventure classes and camps. Through this project, Thurston and Carpenter hope build the classroom community by enabling various classrooms to work together, socially and emotionally.