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Building Bridges Between Cultures with Language at The Hill School
At The Hill School, our faculty support students in the classroom, on the playing fields, in the dorms, on the stage, and in the community. We created a series of videos that profile our dedicated faculty members who embrace what it means to live and learn at The Family Boarding School. In this video, Ms. […]
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Campus Trail Connects Students with Environment and the Larger World
Woodstock Day School (WDS) students are tackling the problems of a warming planet. They’re acquiring the technological skills and the drive to innovate and produce creative solutions, thanks to a recently awarded STEM challenge grant. The nursery-grade 12 students are excited about the opportunity to make a difference. In collaboration with a local non-profit, the […]
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Business and Entrepreneurship Program Challenges Girls to Aim Higher
Minyi Jiang, a sophomore at Annie Wright Upper School, hopes to work on Wall Street some day. Since she doesn’t think books alone will fully enable her to see the real world, she hopes to gain a deeper, more authentic understanding of economics and finance from one of her school’s signature programs, The Girls’ Business […]
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Building Character Education into Curriculum
This fall, Ranney Middle School (Tinton Falls, NJ) students will be studying more than algebra, world history, and literature—they will be learning about values and conflict resolution. A new program called G.R.I.T. is bringing character education to the classroom. Standing for Guided expectations, Respectful communication, Identifying solutions, and Transferring solutions to the community, the G.R.I.T. […]
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Old Trail School – Welcome Back Students
Students were treated to a new video at the first Head of School Assembly of the 2016-17 school year. David Chottiner (Intermediate and Middle School Director) created the video featuring faculty and staff having fun to Can’t Stop the Feeling. Thanks to Mr. Chottiner for a great start to the school year.
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Inspiring Student Engagement: Community Partnership in Action
This summer, Rye Country Day School launched the Edward E. Ford Foundation Community Engagement Fellowship Program through the school’s public purpose initiative. This program awards summer fellowships for high school students to collaborate with community partner organizations to develop and implement innovative, sustainable projects that address authentic community needs. Fellows work closely with their community […]
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High Tech City: Summer Program Shows Tech In Action On NYC Streets
From Citi Bikes to LinkNYC, innovative ideas are changing the way New Yorkers live. As part of Riverdale Country School’s summer Project Knowmad program, a group of middle schoolers explored some new services and products that are changing urban life.
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Why No Homework Matters
This week, the topic of homework in elementary school has gone viral in the news and social media. Here at The Country School, we believe in the value of a research-based program that inspires joyful learning. Four years ago, we listened to the research, and spent a year analyzing and redesigning our classroom instructional minutes; […]
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Fifth Grade: Plot. Characters. Pictures…Book It!
Fifth grade authors, editors, and art directors as well as their teachers waded together through an eye-opening experience of conceiving, writing, and illustrating unbound picture books. The unit launched in the library as English teacher Ben Bacon and librarian Laurie Prothro introduced a variety of picture book styles and formats, as well as provided a […]
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Step Up To the Challenge
The Waldorf School of Garden City owns Glen Brook which is located in Marlborough, New Hampshire. Situated in southwestern New Hampshire near Mt. Monadnock, this beautiful property includes several houses over 250-acres, a working farm with animals, large organic gardens, a natural lake, and miles of trails to explore the surrounding mountains and woodlands. Students […]
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“Our Spirit”
“Give to us a noble SPIRIT that we, with our teachers, may go forward to achieve the highest goals in life.” This exerpt from the UMS-Wright motto resonates throughout the entire school. During the Spring of 2016, we released a series of four videos (Our School, Our Mind, Our Body and Our Spirit) that give […]
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The MiniversityTM – Senior HIgh School Re-imagined
Mental health issues in universities; non-teaching periods scattered randomly through a traditional timetable; a whole city for our campus but field trips causing so much nuisance to those not involved; the growing importance of teachers and their need to increase, constantly, their capacity to succeed with every student; the infuriating, mistaken assumption that students can […]