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Oral History of Lynda Chittenden |
Collection |
Oral History |
Scope & Content |
In this oral history, beloved school teacher Lynda Chittenden recounts her 30-year teaching career in the Mill Valley School District. Lynda was originally hired by superintendent Jim Collins to teach at Old Mill School in 1967, a time, she recalls, when public education in Mill Valley was in the process of radical transformation. Lynda describes various pedagogical initiatives in which she was involved over the years as well as the ways in which her personal teaching philosophy and practices evolved. She discusses her participation in the Berkeley-based Bay Area Writing Project beginning in 1977, and this same year conducted a project with her fifth-grade class to write a textbook on marine mammals entitled Our Friends in the Waters. Lynda recounts her simultaneous work as an educational consultant and her involvement in developing new statewide standardized tests that were innovative in the way they tested student thinking rather than the ability to produce correct answers. In 1987 she moved to Park School, from which she retired a decade later in 1997, having left her mark on thousands of Mill Valley's kids. |
Audio and Transcript |
Click here to hear recording. Click here to read the transcript. |
Dates of Creation |
2015-05-05 |
Interviewee |
Chittenden, Lynda |
Interviewer |
Perone, Stella and Caroline Robinson |
Extent and Medium |
Transcript: 23pp Recording: 01:16:41 |
Search Terms |
Ballora, Mike Begley, Jason Collins, Jim Collins, Mary Dahl, Hana Derich, Jim Education Elementary school teaching Erskine, Dave Old Mill School Oral history - Education Park School Teachers Teaching Teaching methods Testing Wright, Whitney |
Object ID |
2016.086.001 |
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Recording |
Copyrights |
Transcript and recording copyright Mill Valley Public Library, 2015. Materials are made available for research purposes only; all rights are reserved to the Mill Valley Public Library. Requests for permission to quote for publication or for any other usage must be obtained from the Library. |