The Dante Society of America has awarded the Durling Prize for excellence in secondary school teaching to Mrs. Catelyn Boze, an English teacher at Q.I. Roberts.
According to the Dante Society, “The Durling Prize is awarded to an educator who demonstrates effective and innovative pedagogical approaches to teaching Dante.”
“Studying Dante often is the highlight of the course for some of my students. I think they like the challenge and some of the text’s key themes—persistence, creativity, love—remain universal, even 700 years removed from when Dante was writing,” says Mrs. Boze.
Students in Mrs. Boze’s AICE Classical Studies course typically study selections from Dante’s works as a culmination of their studies of ancient and medieval culture.