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For a Leg Up, Milton Hershey School Students Tackle Multiple Trades
Training in law, public safety, and security at the Milton Hershey School pushed juniors Ryan Blom and Valkyrie Speaker out of their comfort zones and into real-world scenarios. It’s exactly what MHS wants to happen to give students a competitive edge over their peers after high school. In one practical certification test, the students must […]
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Berkshire School: One of the STARS in Sustainability
Students learn that sustainability is a serious subject at Berkshire School – even before classes start. At new student orientation, student leaders share with newbies the importance of recycling, saving energy, and making informed purchases. Students also take a diagnostic test to gauge their understanding of key topics in sustainability. Just before graduation, students take […]
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Living Machine™
Environmental sustainability is a watchword at Darrow School, where solar energy, wind power, energy conservation, and organic food production are parts of the fabric of school life. The Living Machine™, an environmentally advanced treatment facility, processes wastewater from campus buildings via a bio-mimetic system using bacterial and mechanical filtration, with students performing many of the […]
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Every Girl Can Be a Leader
Leadership holds a top spot among the Seattle Girls’ School’s cultural priorities, with opportunities galore and an extraordinary culture of participation. Each sixth grader must lead a community meeting, not just standing up and speaking, but choosing a topic and designing the agenda. Turning schools’ usual practice upside down, seventh graders lead both the younger […]
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Individual Development and Community Responsibility (InDeCoRe) at Peck
Great schools and great programs are built around faith in students. The Peck School makes this faith explicit through its award-winning InDeCoRe program. InDeCoRe stands for Individual Development and Community Responsibility. With leadership from administrators, teachers, and students, InDeCoRe programs permeate life at Peck, from Table Talk Tuesdays, when lunch tables hum with conversation around […]
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Game Design Encourages Computer Science for All
While computer games are still anathema at some schools, Porter-Gaud School embraces them as deep learning activities for every high school student. In their required ninth-grade computer science course and in an array of electives, Porter-Gaud students experience a “multimedia, multitasking, total immersion in technology.” A high point of the ninth-grade course is the game […]
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Menlo’s Bridge to Engineering, Science, and Technology
Secondary school enrollments in computer science, engineering, and physics are notoriously skewed toward boys. But not at Menlo School, thanks in large measure to M-BEST: Menlo’s Bridge to Engineering, Science, and Technology. Approximately 40% of Menlo girls participate in this intensive program in which students research a topic each month and build curricula for day-long […]
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Hotchkiss’s Fairfield Farm Grows Up
The Hotchkiss School’s co-curricular farm program started out with a few curious student pioneers in 2008. These students, who had opted not to join a traditional team activity, met at the school farm five afternoons a week. They cleared trails, learned to identify birds and plants, and harvested a few crops under the supervision of […]