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Walker’s Ecology Students Share Importance of Honeybees with Second Graders
On Wednesday, May 15, sixth grade students in The Ethel Walker School’s Ecology class traveled to an elementary school in Simsbury, Connecticut to present to second grade students about the importance of honeybees. The Walker’s students discussed the process of pollination, threats to the honeybee population, and why honeybees should be protected. The students were […]
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The Geometry of Field Day
Being able to solve equations or do difficult geometry problems are very important skills to help students have success in future classes. But if we want students to really understand why we study mathematics, they need to see and understand how it is really used. This goes back to our school motto- we learn not […]
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Lego Robotics Ignites Discovery at Wheeling Country Day School
In a presentation for the annual LEGO Robotics Competition, 5th graders showed parents, teachers and peers mechanisms they built and programmed to lessen the impact of natural disasters. The first team presented a shed housing a siren that floats in the ocean with an anchor that detects a tsunami as it begins to form. Another […]
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Amazing Teachers Challenge and Inspire Students
“Jeff Rennicke traveled the world as an environmental writer for publications like “Backpacker” and “National Geographic.” But after being a guest speaker at the high school boarding school, Conserve School, he decided to settle down and accept a job there. Looking for a creative outlet, he turned to photography and capturing the stunning beauty of […]
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Character Education Canine-Style
There’s a lot for a dog to love at Riverdale Country School in the spring: squirrels, birds, Frisbees, kids who want to run and play on the Quad. Goldie, an 18-month-old golden retriever, is no exception. She loves being outside too. But an important job awaits her, one that requires extraordinary self-control, social and emotional […]
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Young String Students on Pizzacato
Second-grade string students at Ranney School (an independent Age 3-Grade 12 school in Tinton Falls, NJ) learn to properly hold and identify the parts of their instruments, execute pizzicato articulation on all strings, read and decode music notation, and perform, with accompaniment, several songs from our method book – this is just after two practices! […]
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The Ethel Walker School to Launch Nation’s First All-Girls Horizons Program
Individuals and organizations from the Hartford, Connecticut community recently gathered at the Hartford Public Library Kitchen Cafe for the inaugural Horizons Heroes Breakfast to learn more about Horizons at The Ethel Walker School, Hartford’s first Horizons program and the first all-girls Horizons site in the country. Horizons is a nationally recognized program with a 50-year […]
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Inquiry-Based Projects Lead to Real-Life Solutions
Research on learning and the brain has shown that an integrated, inter-disciplinary approach to independently motivated study promotes increased engagement. That’s why all K-8 students at Punahou School now participate in inquiry-based projects. Take the Kaho‘olawe project, during which a seventh grade team’s English, social studies, science, and math classes focused on Hawai’i’s smallest island, […]
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Kent Place Senior Presents One-Woman Show For Independent Study Project
Kent Place senior Katie Moore-Gillon will present her Independent Study project, a one-woman show titled What’s That, Mr. Jazz Hand?, on Thursday, May 7 at 7:00 p.m. in the Kent Place School Hyde and Watson Theatre. The opportunity to participate in an Independent Study at Kent Place is offered only to seniors. The projects allow […]
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Concert Choir Helps Students Learn Through Living
The commitment cuts their hour-long lunch break by half, but each day 120 students in grades 8-12—more than 40 percent of the Indian Springs School (ISS) student body—file into their Rehearsal Room or Concert Hall. Many are already fine singers; others simply love music and want to participate in the school’s most popular and longest-running […]
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Language Immersion Comes Alive in Partnership with Technology
Can you teach a robot to speak Spanish? At Missoula International School, students use computer software and LEGOS® to build robots programmed to solve real-life problems in a total Spanish immersion classroom. K-1 teacher John Kratz pioneered the program at MIS in 2013; today it’s being integrated into every classroom and offered in after-school and […]
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Beyond STEM- St. Andrew’s Design Thinking and Innovation Initiative
So much of school is educating about the known, not the new. There is a thousand years of the known at our backs and a planet full of novel opportunity before us. To venture in the threshold of originality means to sometimes step into uncertainty and away from the traditional methods that often govern our […]