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Planting Seeds of Empathy (aka 5th Graders With Babies!)
Recently, many of the Seven Hills faculty and staff read the book UnSelfie: Why Empathic Kids Succeed in Our All-About-Me World by Michele Borba. Dr. Borba argues that empathy-building is not only a moral imperative, but a key advantage in kids attaining health, happiness, and future career success. UnSelfie unpacks several empathy studies, including the […]
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Students ‘Up and Moving’ in Bolles PVB Thanks to New Seating Options
“Come in and sit wherever you like” is not the sentence you hear most teachers in an elementary school say. More often than not, classrooms can be constrained environments with one size desk and one size chair to fit all student shapes, sizes and learning preferences. This is not the case on the Bolles Lower […]
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Flexible Seating, Learning Options Enhancing Bolles Classroom Experience
Susie Kissinger and Caryn Canfield’s Grade 4 classrooms on the Bolles Lower School Whitehurst Campus are all about options when it comes to desks, seating and learning spaces. Thanks to a complete summer overhaul of classroom furniture resources, students can now decide each day whether they will do their best work utilizing standing desks with […]
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Servant Leadership Focus of 2018 Bolles Upper School Club Day
Upper School Club Day launched a year of servant leadership in the Bolles community. Student organizers from most of Bolles’ 60+ upper school campus clubs manned booths in Davis Gym to field interest from students during Activities period September 18. A wide range of special interests, cultures, causes and associations were represented during the event. […]
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The Power of Play Plus Spanish Language Equals Fun
Students in Melyssa Gomez’s Spanish class on the Bolles Lower School Ponte Vedra Beach Campus combined two important strengths for a successful lesson last week: the power of play and the power of language study. Add outdoors and number skills to the equation and the result was muy Bueno! Gomez created number counting games on […]
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Student Centered Learning Bridges Math Curriculum & Student Interests
At University Lake School (ULS), song recordings, artwork, planning an escape room, and designing a home are nothing out of the ordinary in math class. From the preprimary program to the upper school program, students and faculty follow a student-centered approach to learning, which allow students to explore their own interests across all subjects – […]
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Canton Country Day School partners with Habitat for Humanity
As a part of the Canton Country Day School Service Learning Program, the eighth grade class volunteers at Habitat for Humanity, a tradition for ten years now. The Class of 2018 made the decision to donate to the community for their class gift which is normally given back to the school. This year, $1700 was […]
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NEAL: Wetlands Field Day
Here at Powhatan, we use an approach called NEAL (Nature Enhanced Approach to Learning). NEAL is a lens through which we can teach any or all components of our curriculum. We use it to bring our students outside into the natural world and to bring the natural world indoors to our students. An authentic experience […]
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A kindness challenge to teach our children how to practice empathy and self-care
This 30-day kindness challenge took place during students’ advisories and they participated in one or two kindness activities every week. The kindness curriculum was created by the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley. Through this program, the school received access to outstanding kindness-building lesson plans following the successful completion of the challenge. There were numerous […]
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A Sandbox For The X-Box Generation
Based on a design concept and code provided by the UC Davis W.M. Keck Center for Active Visualization in the Earth Sciences, the Riverdale Country School faculty and staff built an augmented reality sandbox to create dynamic lessons in math, geography, and earth science. The device is comprised of: • A wooden sandbox structure built […]
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Marymount School's Atmospheric Science Class Announce Results of Global Survey
Do students ages 13 to 18 believe global warming is naturally induced, human induced or both? How do teenagers develop their belief system with regard to climate change. The students in the senior elective Atmospheric Science at Marymount School of New York sought to answer these questions (and more) with the 2018 Global Survey on […]
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The Howard School Celebrates Georgia STEM Day
The Howard School celebrated Georgia STEM Day with its first-ever “Brain Day.” The school’s seniors led the younger students in STEAM activities throughout the day.