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Kent Place Girls’ Leadership Institute Has Record-Breaking 20th Year
A record-breaking 38 Outstanding Women Leaders (OWLs) from 22 different schools and four different states, attended the Kent Place School Girls’ Leadership Institute (GLI) from July 20 through July 31. The 10-day summer enrichment program, for girls entering seventh and eighth grades, explores these young women’s leadership potential and strengthens each girl’s self-esteem. This is […]
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Students Visit Hiroshima, Rally for Peace
Seventy years after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, two Harker students joined students from Russia, Japan and the United States for the 18th annual Critical Issues Forum, a student conference on nuclear disarmament held in Hiroshima. The forum, April 2-4, was co-sponsored by the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Middlebury […]
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Igniting a Spark: The High School Classroom as a Neuroscience Laboratory
Last fall, Trevor students collaborated with a group of NYU neuroscientists, performing groundbreaking experiments that explored brain activity during learning. The study, entitled “Crowdsourcing neuroscience: Neural oscillations and human social dynamics,” tried to determine what happens when a group of brains synchronize with one another–and to understand the consequences of this synchrony in terms of […]
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Green Design, Sustainability, and Empowerment
During their Green Design unit, ninth grade students in their first year of design study researched the concept of micro loans and how they are given to women in developing countries to use for starting a small business. By reading case studies the students discovered that the businesses usually involve the design and making of […]
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Hands on Lake Studies
High School students from across the country get a chance to experience hands on lake studies while attending a semester at Conserve School, an environmentally focused semester school in the northwoods of Wisconsin. The school’s 1200 acre campus has access to eight lakes, providing students with a variety of settings to develop their water quality […]
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Green Acres School Certified as a Maryland Green School
On April 30, the Maryland Association of Environmental and Outdoor Education (MAEOE) announced Green Acres School’s certification as a 2015 Maryland Green School. The award is the culmination of two years of demonstrating and documenting a continuous effort to integrate sustainable environmental management practices, environmental education curriculum, professional development opportunities, and community engagement into the […]
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Turning Point School Awarded International Certification
Turning Point School was recently awarded International Certification through the Council of International Schools (CIS). The pursuit of this certification has been an exciting priority and goal for the entire school community over the past two years, and Turning Point is proud to be only the third school school in the United States to earn […]
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Jon Shirley, Former President of Microsoft, Makes $5 Million Gift to The Hill School to Fund New Engineering, Science, Mathematics and Technology Program and Facility
Jon Shirley, of Medina, Wash., retired president of Microsoft Corporation, philanthropist, and renowned art and car collector, has made an extraordinary $5 million gift to The Hill School – a gift that will immediately advance the boarding high school’s new engineering-related curriculum and facility. Shirley is a member of The Hill School’s class of 1956 […]
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Teach the Future Fellowship
St. Andrew’s School has launched a community-wide professional development initiative to create meaningful movement forward for our own school, as well as partner with other schools, innovators, and entrepreneurs, to bring about change for the betterment of our students and community. Teach the Future Fellowship is a grass roots organization of likeminded educators who commit […]
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RMA Cadets earn Chinese Studies HSK Certification
Riverside Military Academy’s Chinese Studies Program is providing exciting opportunities for our cadets as they gain an edge in the world of international business, government, and related fields! RMA offers a unique environment with over 500 cadets representing 27 countries around the world including China. In appreciation of the immense impact China has on the […]
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Kent Place Students “Splash Into Science” During Summer Trip to Florida
More than 20 Kent Place Middle and rising Upper School students and four faculty and staff members chose to spend a portion of their summer breaks this June in Florida for the “Splash into Science” Global Service Learning trip. This trip was far beyond a typical science field trip. The girls hiked the Everglades at […]
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Jazz: A Fifth Grade Multidisciplinary Exploration
An annual visit by professional jazz musicians who share the living tradition of jazz with SCDS’s fifth grade class has inspired a series of lessons among multiple disciplines including humanities, music, art, and library and information literacy. As part of their class’s year-long study of Jazz and the African-American Experience, each student chooses a musician […]