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Westchester Middle Schoolers Donate Time to Community
Students in grades 6 – 8 at Westchester Country Day School spend one Friday each quarter serving in their community. The students visit with residents in nursing homes, tutor at elementary schools, and participate in on-campus service opportunities such as picking-up trash, maintaining trails on the 53-acre campus, and helping in lower school classrooms. Service […]
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Drawing Together Day 2013
Inspired by former arts faculty members, Drawing Together Day on September 9, 2013, brought back a tradition to the Catlin Gabel campus: a time when people of all ages take time to draw. Students from preschool through 12th grade and their teachers, and staff members, all spent one hour on a beautiful late summer afternoon […]
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Great Kids, Going Places
Moorestown Friends School Class of 2013 graduates Sarah Master, Spencer Bard, and Ashleigh Cartwright talk candidly about their experiences at MFS with new staff member Kat Clark, including their thoughts on teachers, opportunities, and ethical education. They are now attending Brown University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Columbia University (respectively). While in high school, Sarah […]
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Why Do Kindergarteners Think Community Gardens are Important?
“Do you think gardens are an important part of community? Why or why not?” This was a question posed to Friends School of Minnesota kindergarten students before a neighborhood hike to the community garden. I asked them to hold that question while we walked and sketched. We would discuss their ideas after their experience. The […]
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Thinking About the Box
When I donated a box of costume jewelry to Friends School of Minnesota, I didn’t expect to end up meeting with five 6-year-olds to discuss cameos and class rings. My daughter and I had cleaned out her room this summer as she prepared to return to college. “What about this jewelry box? Keep or give […]
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Using Modern Technology to Recreate Antiquity: Casting Roman Coins in Fay School’s Innovation Lab
Fay Latin teacher Emily Gifford was looking for a creative way to help her seventh, eighth, and ninth grade students learn about ancient Roman currency. Her solution: have students cast ancient coins using 21st-century methods! After researching Roman currency, students designed their own coins to include a Latin epigram and a representation of Roman art. […]
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Engineering Bootcamp at Tower Hill School
Tower Hill School (DE) students tackle challenges that introduce engineering principles in an elective course called Engineering Bootcamp. Concepts like stress, strain, torque, and stability have real meaning as students stack textbooks on towers they created from PVC pipes and twine. For another project, the concept of aerodynamics underlies the performance of stomp rockets constructed […]
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Learning Science And Math By Doing
La Jolla Country Day School prides itself on pursuing the best approach available for the best education possible. It is not a slave to any particular curricular approach. As technology has allowed students more hands-on learning options, we have formed great partnerships to bring our students the best education available today.
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Manhattan Country School students ask ‘Vote for Me Until I Can’
In 2012, during a final push to encourage voter turnout, Manhattan Country School’s 5- and 6-year-olds asked everyone to “Vote for Me Until I Can.” “I would like to bring about a change, but I’m too young to play the voting game. Won’t somebody hear my plea and go to the polls and vote for […]
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Manhattan Country School: On the Farm
A film in honor of the Manhattan Country School Farm Faculty and Program for 46 years of teaching children invaluable lessons about community and interdependence, environmental stewardship, renewable energy and the sustainable production of food. Film produced by MCS parent Deb Levy. Manhattan Country School is a pre-K through 8th grade school recognized as a […]
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Peddie School EXP Research Science Program
The EXP Research Science Program (or EXP for short) is a year-long program designed to help students develop their passion for scientific research and to encourage them to consider an eventual career in science-related fields. Even more specifically, EXP intends to help students: – get outside the textbook to do “research science” and to develop […]
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A Sample Story of an Excellent Program
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