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Social Emotional Learning: Helping Students Reach Their Full Potential
Social Emotional Learning (SEL) can be hard to spot to an unfamiliar eye, but subtlety is part of its effectiveness at St. Andrew’s Episcopal School, where the SEL curriculum spans kindergarten through twelfth grade. Activities include Lower Schoolers identifying emotions during morning meeting, Middle Schoolers working with test anxiety in advisory, and Upper Schoolers joining […]
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Engaging Students through the Arts
The arts connect us. Inspire us. Empower us to believe in something larger than ourselves. ‘Iolani School has excellent studio-based performing and visual arts programs which provides students with opportunities to travel around the world, experience different cultures, and pursue their passions and creative outlets.
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Kent School Links Middle School with Preschool Students
Kent School is offering a unique class called “Nature Buddies.” “Nature Buddies” links our Middle School students with our Little School students in a Chesapeake Bay Studies science exploration. “Nature Buddies” strengthens Kent School’s nationally recognized Chesapeake Bay Studies Program. Hannah Richardson, Middle School Science Teacher and Nature Buddies leader said, “This class brings students […]
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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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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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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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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 […]
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Constellations in Focus for Bolles PVB Science Students
As part of a recent lesson on constellations visible in the winter sky, Bolles Lower School Ponte Vedra Beach Campus science teacher Carolyn Houston helped students project their favorite star arrangement on the wall. Using hollow cardboard tubes as kaleidoscope-like resources, students selected a constellation and made holes at the covered end that depicted their […]
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Mystery Solved! Bolles PVB Students Connect With Kansas School
Students in Amy Cole’s Grade 3 classroom on the Bolles Lower School Ponte Vedra Beach Campus were dressed in short sleeves and shorts on January 22, a day defined by blue skies and warm sun. The mystery class with which they Skyped that day, however, was full of students in sweaters – and their teacher […]
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Giving the Gift of Kindness
While most students enjoy snacks, games, and fun with friends and parents during school parties, one Northland classroom had a much different experience this year. Oakhill Day School’s second-grade class taught by Mrs. Laura Pearce decided that instead of celebrating the upcoming winter break with a party, they would have fun by giving back. In […]
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Old Trail School Grade 7 Students Receive Rookie of the Year Award in Future City Competition
Old Trail School Grade 7 students participated in the Future City Competition and traveled to Columbus on January 20 for the Ohio Regional Competition. Future City is a project-based learning program in which students imagine, research, design and build cities of the future. With the engineering design process and project management front and center, students […]
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Early Childhood Students Inspired by Yayoi Kusama Art Exhibit
What does the Dallas Museum of Art and ESD’s Lower School have in common? Both are adorned with Yayoi Kusama artwork. Our littlest Eagles recently had the opportunity to create an art installation inspired by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama and her current DMA exhibit “”All the Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkins.” Primarily using […]