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What Can Hip Hop Teach Us About Life?
St. Luke’s educator, Jim Foley, shares his love of hip hop music and masterfully weaves in lessons about anger, oppression, expression, and the mind-blowing power of words and imagery.
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Letting Go the Reins at the Middle School Harkness Table
Five years ago Shore Country Day School decided to embrace the Harkness pedagogy as a way to teach primary sources in our Grade 8 history curriculum. It has been so successful that we have incorporated elements of it down into the lower grades. Developing a classroom of fully engaged middle schoolers makes a lot of […]
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Experiential Learning: Creating a Hometown Scavenger Hunt
Fifth Grade Teacher Emma Samuels collaborated with Dave Cresson, the President of the Half Moon Bay History Association, to organize a Half Moon Bay Scavenger Hunt for students. The field trip was featured on the homepage of the Half Moon Bay Review. “A scavenger hunt is really about adventure education,” said Ms. Samuels. “The point […]
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Annual cultural exchange broadens students’ view of the world
Over the past 16 years, the Seven Hills School has partnered with students and teachers from Kita-City, a ward within Tokyo, Japan, to take part in a cross-cultural exchange that has enriched the lives of students and educators from both countries. During a very special week each November, our entire school community excitedly welcomes a […]
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Aspen Academy 5th Graders Re-enact A Civil War Battle
Aspen Academy 5th graders staged a re-enactment of a Civil War battle complete with makeshift cannons and a hospital. ‘Generals Lee and Grant’ led their troops into battle using plastic balls as ammunition and victory was defined by capturing the opponents’ flag. Our students learned how the United States was divided at the outbreak of […]
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Math Mingle: Collaborative Math Enrichment
On Friday mornings for the past three years, grades 1-3 students have met in mixed level teams for math enrichment. They travel to other classrooms to play games and participate in activities that review a variety of number concepts and skills. Each year, as a math department, teachers look for common threads that will focus […]
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Engaging Alumni: The School of Today
Graduates of ‘Iolani School return to campus to experience being students again. While they discover that ‘Iolani’s excellence is being perpetuated, they also learn about the fun, innovative and creative ways students of today are learning. Alumni visit the Sullivan Center for Innovation and Leadership where real-world studies take place each day.
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An FIS student composer’s piece goes global
On Monday, 2 November, a young FIS composer got to hear his award-winning composition being performed by peers in Beijing via Skype. Having earned the distinction of “Highly Commended Work” in the Association for Music in International Schools’ (AMIS) Young Composers’ competition, Grade 11 Richard Blaquière’s “Prelude and Fugue for Strings” was prepared by the […]
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Shakespeare & 21st Century Skills
Traditions and rituals help cement a school’s identity while signaling what a school values. This tradition has been a part of the school since the early 1960s, and the annual Shakespeare play is rite of passage for the eighth grade class. And while the play itself is a massive undertaking for these students, there are […]
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Feeling Family: Watercolor Portraits
Third grade art students demonstrated their growth as artists as they drew remarkable likenesses of their families for eye-catching family portraits. The multi-week assignment called for young artists to add new techniques of working with color, observation, and drawing that they have been honing in art class twice a week since kindergarten. The portrait assignment […]
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Battle Ground Academy: Success Starts Here
Battle Ground Academy is an independent, coeducational K-12 school in the heart of Franklin, Tennessee. Our mission is to ignite and nurture student curiosity, intellect, and character.
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Students Excel in Public Speaking and Head to World Championship
At the International Independent Schools Public Speaking Competition (IISPSC) in Toronto Oct. 23-26, Stoneleigh-Burnham School placed first among U.S. schools, and Claire Lane ’16 earned a spot at the world championship. Lane was the top speaker in Dramatic Interpretation. Lane will join Clara Swartzentruber ’16 at the World Debating and Public Speaking Championship in March […]