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Carson Long Military Academy: Ethical Peer Leadership
At Carson Long Military Academy, “choose the harder right instead of the easier wrong” is instilled from the first day. Ryan Estep ‘16 writes, “To me, it means that no matter what the situation is, as a leader I am obligated to make the right decision.” All Carson Long students enter at the same level. […]
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The 2015 Student Technology Conference: Connecting the World, One Student at a Time
Marymount School of New York’s Student Technology Leadership Team posed the question: what if students and teachers from around the world could share ideas about using technology in the classroom? Under the guidance of educational consultants Lucy Grey and Steve Hargadon, Marymount students realized this dream on Saturday, January 31 at the first annual Student […]
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Burke’s Takes Hour of Code Offline for a Full Week of Activities
A week-long Hour of Code in December got Burke’s students thinking about the elements of computer programming — but in many cases, without a screen in sight, or through a blend of the plugged and unplugged. Those activities included: • Kindergartners creating symbols for dance steps, stringing them together in a line of code on […]
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Learning to Code by Breaking it Down: Lower and Middle School Students Enhance Problem-Solving Skills with Coding and Programming
Shipley places a strong emphasis on teaching computer science skills from the time students enter Lower School. But the goal is not to prepare all students to pursue computer science in college and beyond. Shipley helps students translate coding skills into valuable skills for all subject areas and life situations. Students in Kindergarten through first […]
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Fourth Grade Students Invade GSB Lower School with Art
Gill St. Bernard’s students, grades pre-k through three, returned to the Lower School early one morning to discover that an overnight invasion had taken place throughout the hallways and in their classrooms. Little did they know that the alien invaders they encountered had been brought down to Earth by fourth grade students at GSB. In […]
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Third Grade Invention Convention
Montgomery School students in Mrs. Baumeister’s third grade classroom are wading through junk, and having the time of their lives! Their “Invention Convention” is tied to the study of Greek culture and history. As their teacher explains, “The Greeks are known for inventing many things we still use today. Right now, I am very grateful […]
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J-Term—A Novel Approach to Learning at St. Luke’s School
St. Luke’s School’s freshman class recently had the exciting opportunity to be the first students to experience J-Term, or January-Term—a novel approach to learning that moved students out of the traditional classroom setting and into a project-based, student-led learning experience. According to Head of Upper School Liz Perry, J-Term began with this question: “What is […]
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2nd Grade Students from The Meadows School Raise Over $5,000 for Local SPCA!
The 2nd grade students at The Meadows School in Las Vegas, NV have cooked up a sweet way to give back to their local animal rescue. Through their annual Valentine’s Day Bake Sale, students learned lessons in both entrepreneurship and philanthropy, and this year’s effort raised $5,569.71 for the cause! The tradition started in 1993 […]
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Glass Classrooms
Turning Point School recently launched a new “Glass Classrooms” project. Glass Classrooms allows anyone, from any location to virtually “sit in” on a lesson or activity and learn more about the research-based methods that inform the curricula and inspire truly successful learning. Glass Classrooms is housed and archived on YouTube, with a corresponding page on […]
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We Are Rosa Parks
The Women of Courage Panel in Honor of Rosa Parks, created and hosted by the Girls in Government, Leadership, and Service (GGLS) features women of courage. The girls at Julia Morgan School for Girls in Oakland, CA lead the event and interview the women on what courage means to them. This year we were fortunate […]
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Turning the Unknown into Your Own
At The Miquon School, the not knowing is often what keeps our brains engaged; it makes learning an ever expanding puzzle that simply needs someone curious enough to pick up the pieces and keep at it. Curious and persistent are two adjectives we could use to describe most of our students. At Miquon, we think […]
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Put on Your Math Goggles! Seeing Math in a Warhol
Second graders at All Saints’ Episcopal School recently donned their math goggles and engaged in a mathematics activity using the visual arts as a lens. Students learned about the Pop artist, Andy Warhol, famous for his silk-screened art containing iconic images. Students viewed several pieces of his arrayed artwork, naming the array size (2X5, 3X3, […]