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School Shows Excellence in the Community
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Blake Legacy Day 2013: All-community; All service
One Friday each fall, the entire Blake community comes together for Legacy Day – a day of community building centered on service. Legacy Day is a special time when students, faculty, staff and alumni gather with the common purpose of strengthening commitments to lifelong learning, community service and world citizenship. Each year the service work […]
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Students Tackle Real-World Problems in the Innovation Lab
The Nueva School in Hillsborough, California is engineering a new way of thinking for students. The Innovation Lab (I-Lab) teaches design thinking to prepare students with a solid mental framework for tackling real-world problems and brainstorming practical solutions. Students approach new projects with one core question: “What do we need to do next?” This seemingly […]
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Student Global Leadership Institute
The Student Global Leadership Institute (SGLI) at Punahou School convenes youth leaders who tackle global challenges and create positive social change. The Institute engages students in team-based projects that address issues such as the environment, economics, and globalization. It teaches principles of creative problem-solving and cross-cultural communication in addition to collaboration. In 2013, seventy-nine students […]
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Plunging into the Maker world at Marymount
Marymount School of New York City’s Fab Lab is short for “fabrication lab,” but could just as easily mean “fabulous.” Marymount girls can plunge into the Maker world and follow the design process from idea to prototype using what one Fab Lab visitor described as “a ridiculous number of machines.” These machines allow students to […]
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Hockaday partners with Dallas public schools
Hockaday girls work hard at their own studies, but in a single academic year they also logged more than 12,000 hours providing tutoring and academic enrichment for students in underserved public schools in the Dallas Independent School District. Initially a community service program, the partnership has evolved into a true service learning opportunity in which […]
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Cooperation, leadership, and respect
Oak Ridge Military Academy Head Dan Nobles tells of an eighth-grade girl who convinced her parents to bring her to the school. “I’m a leader, and I want to know more about leadership,” she said. At Oak Ridge every student has regular opportunities to practice leadership, but it’s not just so that kids can feel […]
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Global languages set students apart
College admission offices are often surprised by applications from students at Albuquerque Academy, where transcripts carry a stunning variety of modern languages. Beginning as early as eighth grade, Albuquerque Academy students expand their horizons beyond more traditional languages by opting into a rotating group of offerings that has so far included Portuguese, Russian, Japanese, Mandarin, […]
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Learning about the world and themselves through internships, service, and civic engagement
Each Wednesday throughout the school year, Madeira School students leave the classroom and campus behind—all day!—for a challenging sequence of self-exploration, service, civic engagement, and internship experiences. Taking advantage of Madeira’s Washington, D.C.-area location and connections forged over decades, the Co-Curriculum might be said to culminate in the eleventh grade, with each student interning in […]
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Sixth graders pursue world peace
Sixth graders at Milwaukee Montessori School spend seven weeks each year honing their roles as national leaders, diplomats, arms dealers, bankers, United Nations officials, and even a high-level saboteur, all in the quest for global equity, peace, and justice. Milwaukee Montessori’s World Peace Game is the culminating experience for sixth graders, a chance for students […]
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Unique Environmental Immersion Program Offers Students Sustainable Living and Learning Experience
Choate Rosemary Hall’s Kohler Environmental Center is the 24/7 home to students in a unique, year-long Environmental Immersion Program. Residing and eating at the Center while taking environmentally focused science and humanities classes there, students literally take control of their own environment. Designed by Robert A. M. Stern and situated on a previously unused campus […]
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Courage. Integrity. Leadership. Curiosity. Concern.
A lone figure faces an audience, ready for what feels like the test of a lifetime: “Audition” at Hyde School, where everybody — parents, students, teachers —sings an unaccompanied solo. Terrifying? Sure. But humiliating? No way. As Hyde president Malcolm Gauld says, “You don’t laugh at somebody when you know you’re next.” Audition is a […]