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Want to Make the World a Little Better? Build a Tree House!
When elementary students, ranging in age from 7 to 10, at The Delta School realized there was no playground hang-out to call their own—primary students had a playhouse and intermediate students had a spider climb—they interviewed classmates and settled on two goals: a tree house and some swings. It turned out they couldn’t have both, […]
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Principia International Student Month Highlights Diversity and Unity
For many years, Principia Upper School has hosted an International Student Week, celebrating the many countries and cultures represented among the student body. This year, the students and their advisors put together a month-long celebration. “No one thing defines us” is the theme chosen by the international students, who make up 11 percent of the […]
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Theatre Week Unleashes Can-Do Spirit and Creativity
Principia Middle School recently implemented its first-ever Theatre Week. For their production of “Mulan, Jr.,” students did everything—sets, costumes, audio, and, of course, singing, dancing, and acting. Hear what our students thought about taking this Disney hit from script to stage in a week.
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The Howard School Only School in Georgia to Receive NBC's R.I.S.E. America Grant
The Howard School high school was selected as one of 50 high schools across the country, and the only school in Georgia, to receive a coveted NBC R.I.S.E. America Grant to support its drama program. More than 1,000 high schools applied for the grant.
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Kent School An Early Leader in Making Caring Common with Harvard GSE
Kent School is among the nation’s first schools and the only Preschool through Grade 8 school in Maryland to join a new national campaign to mobilize middle and high schools to prepare young people to be constructive community members and citizens who create a better world. Led by Harvard’s Making Caring Common project, the Caring […]
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Hill School Greek 3 Honors Students (and Teacher) Learn Virtually from Princeton Professor
Students in Mr. Turner’s Greek 3 Honors class had the opportunity to participate in a virtual class with Dr. Michael Flower, professor of classics at Princeton University. Author of a book on Xenophon’s “Anabasis,” Dr. Flower guided the class through lines of ancient Greek. Mr. Turner used this virtual lesson to connect what the students’ […]
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Students Offer “Artistic Responses” to New Learning Experiences
Entwined in the DNA of Portland’s Northwest Academy is a regard for students developing proficiency—demonstrating their learning—rather than merely “passing the test.” And that led to this: Grace, a senior, has recreated her bedroom in the back corner of her Senior Thesis class. Collages, posters, and album covers plaster the walls. She’s one of four […]
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A Deeper Sense of Self
Who am I? A group of Riverdale fifth graders thought about that question as they read and discussed “George,” Alex Gino’s novel for elementary school readers about a transgender girl. Working with the Lower School technology integrators, the students constructed “identity boxes,” demonstrating that what’s visible on the outside “doesn’t define who you are on […]
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A French Tradition Inspires A Character Lesson
Riverdale’s French classes have taken a French tradition, La Fete Des Rois, and made it their own. Their gratitude cards, illustrated and composed with care for the celebration, are dedicated to family, friends, teachers, and role models. They are on display outside of the student center. You don’t have to be a French student to […]
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Princeton Montessori Students Garner Attention of Distinguished University Professor
A group of Princeton Montessori elementary students received unexpected accolades from Rattan Lal, University Professor of Soil Science at Ohio State University and President of the International Union of Soil Science. Professor Lal was quoted in a December 2017 New York Times article titled, “Soil Power! The Dirty Way to a Green Planet.” The students […]