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Students Follow Curiosity in Genius Hour
A trebuchet launching golf balls, homemade backpacks, and grapes igniting into plasma. These were just some of the projects the 8th graders proudly displayed at the Genius Hour Showcase. Marshall was filled with full-scale models, customized websites, and Ted Talk-style presentations. Marshall teacher Lori Durant modeled Genius Hour after Google, where employees can use 20% […]
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#EarthDay #wintermatters
We care about climate in western Maine and are teaming up with the author of DEEP The Story of Skiing and The Future of Snow and watching the film Chasing Ice to start our Earth Day events. Campus energy use tours, a celebration of local foods, vernal pool tours, reclaiming run off water for gardening, […]
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Would Working With Wood Change your Working?
Though the Tuxedo Park School Art Program has always incorporated a wide variety of materials, with the expansion of our tools and materials Mrs. Sweeney is taking the students’ knowledge of and experience with wood to new heights. In Upper School, students work together to build a bench out of reclaimed pallet wood. In Middle […]
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Building our solar future at Midland School
For over a decade, Midland 10th graders have annually helped install a 3-kW grid-tied solar array alongside faculty members and a professional electrician after writing technical reports on how photovoltaic systems work. Each array meets another 3% of our school’s electricity needs; currently 30% of our needs are met with student-installed arrays, and at this […]
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Inspiring others to love and appreciate our beautiful world!
Liz, Class of 2015 at St. Paul’s School for Girls, was challenged by her English teacher, Michelle Stoll, to write a poem celebrating our beautiful Earth. Liz wrote a lovely poem, which was then submitted to the Department of Natural Resources poetry contest for the 2013-2014 year. She captured the prize last spring as the […]
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Turning Point Students Just Say “No” to Plastics
Turning Point School’s Level 8 Community Leadership team recently returned from the 2015 Algalita POPS (Plastic Ocean Pollution Solutions) International Youth Summit in Dana Point, California, where they had the opportunity to network with other student leaders from around the world in an effort to explore and expand their role in the plastic pollution movement. […]
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Outdoor Center Offers Challenges, Teaches Life Lessons
Imagine a week of no homework, no uniforms, no tests or quizzes, and no classroom confines. That’s what students at The Linsly School in Wheeling, WV, get to experience each year at their second campus, the Linsly Outdoor Center (LOC) in Hookstown, PA. There’s no worrying about grades either; the goal is to build life-long […]
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Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf, The Hill School Class of ’67, speaks on preparation for life
The Hill School (Pottstown, Pa.) recently presented Pennsylvania’s Governor, Dr. Tom Wolf, a member of Hill’s class of 1967, with its Sixth Form Leadership Award. Enjoy this short video of highlights from his speech. Governor Wolf was selected for this honor by the sixth form (senior) class. The award acknowledges an individual who, through his […]
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Maker’s Movement Comes to Rowland Hall
The quest to solve problems by making tools from available materials has marked the advancement of cultures and satisfied the human desire to invent since the beginning of time. Right now the Maker Movement, based on the idea of constructing knowledge by building physical artifacts with real-world applications, is taking the country by storm. Two […]
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Block Party in the Beginning School
In an article published in the journal Science, Denver University Professor Douglas Clements made the case that there is not a time in a student’s academic life more important than preschool, and no learning more important than building a solid understanding in mathematics. “Mathematical thinking is cognitively foundational,” asserts Dr. Clement. “Preschool children’s knowledge of […]
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Dance Concert Lands on a Visceral Level
This year’s annual Rowland Hall dance concert titled, “Ground,” featured 87 Rowland Hall students, ages 11 to 18, and dance forms ranging from ballet to modern to hip-hop. The evening began with a high-speed chase throughout the theatre and culminated in an intimate reflection on dancers’ experiences of joy, sadness, and anger. This performance engaged […]
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Interactive Data Art Session Inspires Connection
Last week we kicked off the third trimester of the school year in Arts and Innovation with a Data Art exploratory session for our Middle School students. Scott Draves Beamed in from his home base of New York and delivered an amazing interactive workshop. Scott is a pioneering software artist best known for creating the […]